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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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== [[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]] ==