One of the many dieting pills that act as a supplement is known as Hydroxycut. This dieting pill often includes photo shopped before and after pictures of women in tight dresses or bathing suits claiming they lost lots of weight, with the help of Hydroxycut. This ad also claims it is America’s number one selling weight loss supplement. The ad says it has clinically proven ingredients that aide people in losing up to …show more content…
The first way Hydroxycut could improve their claim is by showing more research on the supplement. The only research presented on Hydroxycut were two bar graphs and a very brief summary of what happened in the study. Another way the dieting pill could improve their claim, is to replicate the study multiple times. This would help support the main conclusion that the dieting pills do aide in losing weight and would provide support because they could rule out any outside variables that may have skewed the results. Another way would be to properly summarize the data that was collected in the study. The last way to make a better research claim would be to have the subjects actually ingest the supplement instead of just one key ingredient.
Hydroxycut is an ad that represents trickery and tries to get people to buy their product. This ad presents many flaws in research. Due to the trickery and pseudoscience this product has been recalled and sued many times because of the misleading and false