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A newer variant of this is pulled by health products, particularly diet pills and nutritional supplements, where the ad claims the product will help you lose weight and/or be healthy when taken "with diet and exercise"; it's the diet and exercise that provide most of the effect, with the pills or nutritional supplements doing little actual work. (And they have a necessary legal obligation of their own, in that they are "not intended to prevent, diagnose, or treat any disease".)
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A cereal touted for its independent nutrition content once poked fun at this trope.
* Nutella got in trouble for trying this in one of its commercials.
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** And even better, are eating a sensible breakfast and a sensible lunch (and maybe having a sensible snack), so they're actually eating ''more'' than the Slim-Fast planners, but because of the sensibleness are slimmer already.
* Ensure shakes are a tasty nutritional supplement. The ads cannot make clear how.
* An ad campaign from the late 80s for Total (which is, in fact, healthier than most cereals) took the opposite approach, with the pitchman telling the skeptics that they'd need to eat three bowls of their cereal (or in some cases four, or in some, up to ''forty'') to get the vitamins and nutrition of one bowl of Total. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KfgTKA6fh8 Here's one example.] Naturally, none of the skeptics in these commercials seemed to like any other cereals produced by General Mills...
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* As pictured above, [[Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin]] eats cereal that takes five grapefruits and a dozen bran muffins to even out the sugar (and possibly more, since Hobbes trails off while explaining this).
* ''[[Cathy]]'' tried dieting in two arcs where the product had the "product for breakfast and lunch and then a sensible dinner" line; both times, she ended up having dinner at 11AM.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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