# This site makes me laugh (Growth/Weight Loss)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-makes-me-laugh-growth-weight-loss/441427
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 15, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-makes-me-laugh-growth-weight-loss/441427 "2008-03-15T00:59:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![SoulSearching](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SoulSearching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulSearching)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-makes-me-laugh-growth-weight-loss/441427/1 "2008-03-15T00:59:14Z")

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Saw this in an ad in Maxim magazine. Decided to check it out and can’t believe people actually buy the stuff:

[http://www.vidasanaworks.com/index.html](http://www.vidasanaworks.com/index.html)

Read the fake testimonials! So scripted…

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### Author: ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-makes-me-laugh-growth-weight-loss/441427/2 "2008-03-15T01:30:38Z")

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I don’t know. Dr. Roy Chung (under testimonials) is a world-wide expert on this stuff and he is standing behind this product. I also admire his mustache.

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### Author: ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-makes-me-laugh-growth-weight-loss/441427/3 "2008-03-15T03:12:12Z")

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I like how you can start taking it when you’re _12_. My god, I grew a full 6 inches between the ages of 12 and 18, someone must have been slipping me this stuff in my wheaties!

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### Author: ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-makes-me-laugh-growth-weight-loss/441427/4 "2008-03-15T15:55:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Shagnasty]  
I don’t know. Dr. Roy Chung (under testimonials) is a world-wide expert on this stuff and he is standing behind this product. I also admire his mustache.  
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But his endorsement is for use by _youngdults_. Not too many of those around.

I know, it’s an obvious typo… for “young dolts”.