Diary of a Mad Editor

You’d think after a lifetime of watching commercials and seeing how advertisers attempt to manipulate people into buying products, I’d get used to those manipulations. Not so. Just the other day I was flipping through a men’s fitness magazine at the grocery store and couldn’t help noticing all those ads for diet pill’s. Now, I think we all know that most diet pills are marketed towards women because they buy most of those products but, now, companies aren’t just selling diet pills for women, they are peddling products to men under the promise that specially formulated diets pills for men will not only burn fat, but build muscle and increase testosterone levels. Far as I know the only way to build muscle and burn fat at the same time is to lift weights. I’ve never heard of a diet pill that does anything but up metabolism and maybe purge water weight. And, unless the product has testosterone in it, I don’t think any diet pill will boost your manhood. Of course men are just as insecure about their bodies as women and just as vain, so naturally when they see pictures of this young, good-looking male model with ripped ads smiling from the pages of a magazine, it plants a seed.