Exercise Machines and Nonsensical Ads
The Star Online is running a series of ads with Bodytone. Apparently, by standing on a machine and getting a total body vibration, you can lose pounds easily.
This autogyration machine follows the likes of the uPapa by Osim and that other funny-named-machine-I-cannot-recall by Ogawa. Frankly, the only way I lost weight was through exercise.Stop exercising or eat more, weight goes up. It isn’t rocket science.And by all means if you want to wiggle your way to weightlessness or if you believe it will help you, by all means go ahead.
What I cannot stand, is the way they advertise these machines. Of course, paying 10,000 onwards for a machine that does little more than vibrate incessantly seems expensive(I could get a same workout riding the Mara bus to Klang), so they have now advertized other things you can do with this machine, running in one place, pumping, planks, push ups…
Wait, can’t I already do all these exercises on the floor? So basically you’re advertizing your miracle machine as a platform as well?
What next? As a paperweight?
Speak now, or forever hold your peace.
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Emmanuel Joseph 
Clearly the advertisement is misleading and is giving false information. I wonder why isn’t our Ministry of Consumerism taking action? I remember reading some donkey years ago about experts not being allowed to endorse certain products through advertisements, but today you still can see so-called dieticians and dentists and doctors appearing on tv, promoting a certain brand. What is our MoC doing? Will action be taken only when complaints are made?
I agree with you that weight lost can only be achieved in a healthy way by means of exercising. Fasting or taking only certain group of food (like protein based diet) doesnt work for longer period and may cause side effects.