Another Water Selling Ploy: Skinny Water
August 24, 2007
Posted by CindyC in : Rants & the Ridiculous , trackback
I was browsing through the local paper at the doctor’s office when a brief mention of this product, Skinny Water, caught my eye. Skinny Water comes in a shapely plastic bottle and is touted as a NATURAL appetite suppressant. Huh? Do they mean if you drink a lot, you won’t be hungry? Always on the lookout for the curious, I googled Skinny Water when I came home.
First of all, the site gives absolutely NO nutritional information. The only “ingredient” I can glean from the picture was Super CitriMax; I couldn’t even make out the other listed ingredient. I had to look it up on Amazon to find that it is “artesian water” sourced from Croatia with Super CitriMax dissolved in it. OK, so apparently Super CitriMax is hydroxycitric acid, a plant derivative and popular ingredient in natural weight loss drug (an oxymoron if you ask me). It’s been clinically proven by a random, double blinded trial done on 90 obese people. Yup, very impressive and large trial indeed. And guess how much the product costs? About $6 for a six pack at Super Target – more than just any other run-of-the-mill bottled water since it has a Super additive. Up until now, I thought Aquafina’s Hydro-7 ,”a rigorous, seven step purification process” to purify water from public sources (aka tap water), was the most ridiculous marketing ploy. Skinny Water now is the reigning champion!
CindyC at Organicpicks
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What ever happened to eating right, doing yoga, stretching and exercise? Now it boils down to obese people drinking this miracle water? I was wrong to think we couldn’t get any lazier in our weight-loss methods. I hope they mentioned on their website that you have to do more than drink yourself skinny