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Almost entirely specific to commercials for diet products, this is the usual Unreadable Disclaimer shown at the bottom of the screen when an ecstatic (and genuine) customer endorses the product by proudly stating "I lost 60 pounds!" What you're not told is that this particular customer was a fanatic about losing weight and pushed herself far harder than the average schlump would, thus losing twice or more what the plan or product really promises. The UK equivalent is "As part of a calorie controlled diet", this is occasionally spoken too by a a reassuring female voice but not usually.
This is also a part of infomercials touting real estate or stock market tricks. As satisfied customers testify to the massive amounts of money they made in ridiculously short periods of time, this disclaimer would be shown under them in virtually unreadable small print.
Car ads used to say "Your mileage (fuel consumption) may vary", until people stopped caring about gas mileage in The Nineties. It hasn't returned...yet.
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