Scott Brown - from Senator to diet pill huckster? - Granite Grok

Scott Brown – from Senator to diet pill huckster?

Yes, I am the guy who called out the reporterette from the Daily Beast during the media panel during the 603 Alliance Grassroots Summit for not reporting the stories that really matter – just tell us the truth, unvarnished and without bias. Not the gotcha questions or the constant ambushes of politicians.  It’s a bit different, though, when politicians throws themselves at the media (reformatted,emphasis mine):

Scott Brown - diet pill hucksterThe short-lived senator from Massachusetts wants the world to know about his new weight-loss scheme via some very strange supplements. Last night, shirtless pictures of former Senator Scott Brown appeared in my inbox.

He sent them.

In one, he stood sunburned on the beach, his belly protruding over his khaki shorts and his arm around his sarong-wrapped wife, Gail. In another, he stared down at ripped, tanned abs, dressed in nothing but American flag-printed swim trunks and sneakers.  “Olivia … Thanks for emailing me about your interest in Advocare,” the message began.

Founded in 1993 by Charles E. Ragus, an insurance salesman who had worked for Herbalife, a nutrition company which may or may not be a Ponzi scheme, AdvoCare is a “wellness” brand that “Builds Champions ®” and is “backed by the latest science,” according to its website. Ragus died in 2001, at 58. His obituary doesn’t cite a cause.

I’ve seen the TV ads – young people working really hard at working out.  Have to wonder if it is the workout making those toned bods or this special pill.  Hey, I’d love it if all I had to do is take a pill – while I’ve kept off the 50lbs I lost for 6 months now, I certainly don’t look like them.  And given the priorities I rejiggered during my recent blogging sabbatical, I don’t see working out like that in my cards anytime soon either.

But really – can I look like Scott simply with (yet another) pill or two a day? Scott’s science boggles my mind.

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