Liz Hurley Knows Best
A couple of minutes ago I read the groundbreaking revelation that model Liz Hurley “disagrees with doctors” about how you can successfully lose weight and what she thinks how nutrition should function in general.
Hot Water And Oat Cakes
According to her you shouldn’t have much of a breakfast and it should consist of “mugs of hot water first thing, maybe an espresso and a few oat cakes mid morning”. As I’m writing this, her profound insight into nutrition was subject of 85 news items just in the US.
But I am not Liz Hurley, you probably aren’t either, and we may wonder why her way to start the day should interest us if we aren’t her. I strongly suspect that if your MD next door, who went through years of a hard medical education, told your local newspaper that he thinks oat cakes are a great way to start the day, the editor of said newspaper wouldn’t have to think twice about not printing it. And even if the editor did I highly doubt that dozens of news sources would pick up that article. And all this despite the fact that your doctor is much more qualified on health topics than Liz Hurley.
Halo, Halo
So, the interesting question is of course why it gets printed when Liz Hurley says it. And the answer of course is that she is famous. In psychology this is called the “halo effect“: When a person is successful in one field people tend to give that person credibility in totally unrelated fields, even if there is no reason to.
Think about it: Christina Aguilera and David Beckham tell us to drink Pepsi and Paris Hilton wants us to have hamburgers. If we follow the logic, I might as well ask Ms. Aguilera what car I should I buy, Mr. Beckham where I should get the insurance and Ms. Hilton if she thinks the suspension is working as it should.
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I know what you’re trying to say, BUT Liz Hurley is HOT!
And she’s european! Who cares what she says. She’s a fox!
If it helps you, imagine her with a wart 😉
After reading this, I searched Liz Hurley on google images, and all I can say is… niiiice.
But seriously, stuff like this sells, regular weight loss isn’t groundbreaking and revolutionary, and there certainly aren’t any shortcuts, which is why it doesn’t appeal to people.
That, I’m afraid, is true.
Funny, I doubt she does her own dieting, it’s done by a dietitian making a plan to suite her and a personal trainer to get in shape.
It’s no better than the muscle magazines with bodybuilder’s advertising a product- do you really think for a minute they just use ‘Pecblaster 5000’? It’s the stuff behind the advertising you don’t hear about and leads to believe this one supplement is the key to unlock your body in being ripped and cut.
People would have to be a few brain cells short to follow anything said by a celebrity, but it’s why they are in the cycle of trying to fail…Unless your celebrity list includes the EvilCyber and Scooby duo 😉
I doubt we would be booked by many companies. “Ok, guys, we’d like to tell you about this great new product here, and, well, basically it sucks” 😉
Hello EvilCyber, You replied to my topic on askscooby.com with this before you decided to ban me: “You have someone “training” you to use them properly? Please, any recreational use is not using them properly!
And apparently you still haven’t understood what this forum is about. It doesn’t fall into our expertise to advise people on training schedules that involve drug abuse. If you want to ruin your body please find another place.”
Well anyway I needed to find somewhere you would get this message because your comment really hurt me:
I DO NOT take kindly to being accused of drug abuse! People like yourself see what I post and just assume that I’m some other guy who thinks I can take steroids to get big and powerful or whatever.
Now for the reality: I do NOT aspire to be a big muscular body builder, I hate exercise and would rather not have to do it. However I have a severe life long medical condition that not only causes me intense amounts of pain every day and shitting large amounts of blood but has also caused me to lack in growth and development.
That’s only the physical side of things. If I were to go into how this has affected me mentally it would be something like… being ridiculed my entire life for being so small and underdeveloped, suicide attempts, being held in a psychiatric hospital and as of now being afraid to leave the house at all.
Now I want you to imagine your life was like this and despite being fucking terrified of steroids having no other option but to take this stuff with all the other dangerous medication that you’re on and having a good chance you will go to sleep and never wake up again leaving your family in pain.
Now lets imagine you want to give yourself the best chance you can. You want to get big and strong just like all the other people your age who are living normal happy lives and because of this you go to a forum to get help with what you’re doing and then some dick head starts calling you a drug abuser.
I was willing to admit that Ask Scooby wasn’t the place to be discussing steroids so I apologised for it and decided that I would just use it as a place to get advice on my workout plan. However I get banned for doing absolutely nothing and have some cocky admin calling me a drug abuser. Also you are wrong I perfectly understand what the forum is about
So I’m a drug abuser am I?!! For wanting to be happy and able to live?
You come and call me that to my face and I will shoot your head off, no joke.
I have notified the police authority responsible for Stockton-on-Tees and they now have this on file.
holy crap she is freaking hot!
Something tells me the majority of you kinda gets carried away from the heart of the matter here 😉
hello iam a 53 year old bodybuiler.which have been at the game,for a long time.I live in the same town as Liz hurley,in cirencester,I have seen her in the coffee shop,when i am of to the gim.praps”Thats ware i am going wrong.all this time.and yes she is freaking hot.
Well, tell her I said “hi!” and that I admire her insight into healthy living! 😉