Polite Dissent

6 Responses to “ Reduce Within 10 Days or Money Refunded! ”

1. Charlene
   July 28th, 2010 at 12:30 am
   

   Protam is still on the market in some countries. The modern Protam is a vegetable-based protein supplement that contains the eight required amino acids. it’s normally used as an additive to vegan processed foods.

2. Andreas
   July 28th, 2010 at 2:12 am
   

   “Protam Plan Good for Ladies, Too. (But not so good for verbs, apparently).”

   Sounds like any number of English language ads in Hong Kong. Chinese sometime no good at translation la. Grammar very diffrent.

3. magista
   July 28th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
   

   Wow. It’s got protein and amino acids. It must be extra effective.

   What the hell is it, powdered Bob Atkins?

4. Bill Jones
   July 29th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
   

   I’ve always loved “Lose up to…”.

   It can always be restated as “No more than….if any”

5. Rawrasaur
   July 29th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
   

   Didn’t they put tapeworms in pill form back then and sell them as diet aids?

   –Rawr

6. Ledasmom
   July 30th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
   

   I wonder how that would work – as I understand it, tapeworms have a fairly complex life cycle (egg – larval form in first host – adult form in second host – eggs), so in order to get the malnutrition-inducing adult form one would need to consume the larval form, which I wouldn’t think would survive terribly long outside the host.
   The nasty thing about tapeworms is that, often, the adult form is relatively benign, whereas the larval form can kill you. There is a particularly nasty one called Echinococcus multilocularis that pretty much acts like metastatic liver cancer. Treatment is pretty much lifelong chemotherapy or liver transplant, apparently.
   What’s fascinating is that, with some tapeworms, one egg can result in thousands of larvae. Flukes, too.

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