The web seems to be littered with these images of built abs and skinny women, cartoon versions and real versions, with heads and without. They flash at me from every website I visit. Google must be laughing all the way to the bank.

I know there will always be people trying to prey on the human desire to be thin and muscular, but do they have to be so successful? Even temporarily so?

I presume that this is all part of some get-rich-quick scheme - you can set up your own landing page, and you will get paid a commission on the clicks to buy the Extreme Acai and ColoBlast tablets from the guy who is selling them. The fact that those involved are able to fork out for more Google Ads means that their propaganda must be working, and it both pains me and makes me laugh that we poor humans are dumb enough to believe almost anything.

Here is the article I was directed to. Anyone with a brain in their heads would recognise that it was not written by any self respecting journalist, but it seems that not all of us are blessed with a brain.

The story is about a journalist deciding to do a four week trial of the stuff to try and lose weight. She didn't believe it would work, what a surprise, but it did! And she lost loads of weight, much to the envy of her fellow journalists who had passed on the opportunity.