From a recent AOL Chat between two outside parties:
name changed: What do you think about the wave of supplements, the ingredients, etc. being sold on the Home Shopping Network...
the expert: They are nothing special, they are doing the same thing GNC does, offering something for everyone, selling all sorts of stuff, hoping someone buys at least one item...
the expert: They have something for the old, young, male, female, etc, etc, and the reality of it is, people all need the same things just more or less of it, not a completely different formula or product, but people believe all the ads that say otherwise and when it is heard on tv...
name changed: People doubly believe the product must be genuine, or it wouldn't be featured regularly...
the expert: The viewer does not realize the salesman is charismatic, saying the right things, etc...
name changed: He may be the best there is, who knows...
the expert: But they are using age old sales techniques and have paid for their own air time to keep selling to the next gullible customer...
name changed: Right, if it is sold on TV it is paid advertising!
the expert: HSN can tell you they haven't a slot open for X amount of months to sell someone else's product but it is because other people pay for extra exposure too, and have a million dollar backing to start the ads and take up space...
name changed: So they sell because of exposure, not quality, we do not know the quality without trying them, or do we?
the expert: Richard Simmons never sold on quality, Tony Little either, they sold on hype and personality, touching a demographic group that was catered to... The lazy who want to do things easy...
name changed: I think the HSN claims they use high quality ingredients, no fillers etc...
the expert: They say so but looking at the ingredients, the capsules would have to be tiny, there is nothing in them...
the expert: Say they use a Vitamin C powder...
the expert: Say 500 MG....
the expert: But that isn't pure Vitamin C, it is just a powder that has Vitamin C in it and when weighed, the mix offers 500 mg....
name changed: The bastages!
the expert: That way when the pills are all made they can say no fillers were added because they weren't, they were already there, scary aint it?
name changed: These supplement people are crooks!
the expert: Don Lemmon's Perfect Vitamin has over 100 nutrients in every capsule...
the expert: And each capsule gives you 1/6 of what you need for a day in 100 nutrients...
the expert: 100 nutrients per capsule... And even if it were 100% of the RDA for each he could still fit 50 ingredients in one capsule...
name changed: So there is an example of why you do not have to take 50 capsules, full of fillers, to be nourished...
the expert: And fillers block absorption...
name changed: That is interesting...
the expert: Yes, it is. And there is more...
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