Nutrisystem Required to Add Disclaimers to Weight Loss Testimonials on Pinterest

Nutrisystem's "Real Customers. Real Success" pinboard faced a different kind of reality when the Council of Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division asked the weight loss program to put the same disclosers on its Pinterest ads as it does on its television and print ads.

Nutrisystem’s “Real Customers. Real Success” pinboard faced a different kind of reality when the Council of Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division asked the weight loss program to put the same disclosers on its Pinterest ads as it does on its television and print ads.

Not to be confused with the controversial “thinspiration” boards that have also circulated on the image-sharing site, Nutrisystem’s board shows testimonials from healthy men and women who reportedly lost a reasonable amount of weight with the program’s prescribed diet of prepackaged meals.

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