I keep seeing the ad for this at the top of my MySpace page. It sounds too good to be true, and the tone of the website is kind of demeaning to women. But it's got me curious. Thoughts?
The Pink Patch

Why You Might Buy th Pink Patch:

* Has no side effects.
* May slightly suppress hunger.
* Offers a free trial (although you still pay $8 for S&H).
Why You Won’t the Pink Patch:

* Doesn’t contain proven ingredients.
* Free trial is a auto-pay scam that is hard to cancel.
* Does not offer any clinical studies and testimonials.
* Costs more than some supplements.

Pink Patch Conclusion

The Pink Patch is a weight loss scam that targets young women. Their site is more fluff that fact and there is no way of knowing if it really works. If you get suckered into their free trial, you are stuck in an auto-pay scam that is difficult to quit.

**Pink Patch Update **

Check out the investigation done by CBS against MiracleBurn, the company that makes the Pink Patch. Yikes!


http://www.sybervision.com/reviews/Review-Pink-Patch.php

Well, I totally agree with the part about the tone being pretty demeaning, but the active ingredient, 5-Hydroxytryptophan , is known to have a suppressant effect on appetite, so I guess this might not be total bull... but 5-Hydroxytryptophan can be gotten from a turkey sandwich or as a supplement from any pharmacy counter, "without giving up your busy social life"

Thanks for the data, DG. That's pretty much what I suspected. And the fact that when I Googled it and found that even the pro-anorexia sites doubt its veracity, well, that says a lot...

Another exposé on Pink Patch from The Blog that Ate Manhattan

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Of course, you need a credit card to buy the Pink Patch, which limits its availability to older teens and college age girls. Fortunately, that's just the market they're going after.

Yes, this is America, and yes the FDA has no regulatory power over herbal products such as the Pink Patch.

But MySpace's central place in teen culture imparts a responsibility to its owners to act responsibly in choosing advertisers. I notice there are no liquor or tobacco ads. They know that this would just not fly.

Well, it's time for us to let them know that advertising unregulated herbal diet ads to teenage girls won't fly either.

...and they urge a little MySpace activism.