Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection by Catherine Price

Author:Catherine Price [Price, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

100% Natural

BREAST ENHANCEMENT

Natural Bust Enhancement

Balanced Formula for Maximum Results

100% Natural

DIETARY SUPPLEMENT

60 TABLETS

30 DAY SUPPLY

Let Natural Curves™ help give you the self-confidence to look and feel your best, whether it’s a day at the beach, a night on the town or a quiet night in front of the fireplace. Get the curves you’ve always wanted naturally . . . with Natural Curves.™ IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES.

In addition to its implied promise that it will provide a “natural” boost to a phase of development that usually ends with high school, the label lists its ingredients as a proprietary blend of herbs and botanicals that includes saw palmetto berries, blessed thistle leaf, wild yam root, mother’s wort leaf, and—somewhat incongruously, given the box’s main graphic—chasteberry root. According to its label, Natural Curves’ “natural” effects are due to its “natural blend of isoflavones and other key herbal extracts” that “‘balance’ the levels of key ‘breast-sensitive’ hormones in a woman’s body and thereby helps to maximize the growth of breast tissue.”

When a search on PubMed did not reveal any randomized, controlled studies demonstrating how exactly this enhancement was supposed to happen, I turned to an alternative: customer reviews. The supplement had earned 3.5 stars out of 5, though its forty-nine reviewers, including one woman who aspired to a 38DDD “or a little bigger,” showed a surprising lack of correlation between the ratings they gave and their reported results.

“I have bad acne . . . [and] when I started taking Natural Curves, it made me break out a LOT,” wrote one woman—who proceeded to give the product four stars and said she would recommend it to friends. “So I stopped taking it after 3 weeks and the results quickly disappeared. :(”

Many women were enthusiastic, even in the face of adversity:

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