The article below, which I will quotation mark from, was documentary by Donna De La Cruz of the Associated Press, and the (copyrighted) nonfictional prose appeared in the Albuquerque Journal on Friday, January 5, 2007. The newspaper headline of the nonfictional prose reads: (Washington) "Forget Magic Pill, Dieters...Feds Fine Firms For Fake Claims."
Article: Now, that you've indulged in all those rest goodies and ready-made that papers to emit pounds, the system says don't count on a fare thing to abet. The Federal Trade Commission aforesaid Thursday (1/4/07), it was fining the marketers of iv weight-loss drug companies a summative $25 cardinal for fake packaging claims. Despite that, the pills Xenadrine EFX, CortiSlim, One-a-Day, WeightSmart and TrimSpa...will loiter on the shelves."
MY Two Cents: There's a fall guy born everyday, and scorn the establishment allowing these companies to sale their fraudulant products, I know in attendance will contunue to be associates out there who will chuck their funds away on these products.
Article: "It is resolve instance again, isn't it?" aforementioned FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras...'We're implementing our completion to quarrel rear legs against companies that use deceptive ad claims.'
Some of the products marketed their claims through infomercials or distinction endorsements. Anna Nicole Smith, for example, has supported TrimSpa. 'Testimonials from individuals are not a stand in for science,' Magores aforesaid. 'And that's what American's have to see.'
The FTC investigated a array of claims, with nippy weight loss and decline in the jeopardy of osteoporosis, Alzheimer's and even cancer, Majoras famed.
My Two Cents: I saw a pithy lump move ended AOL (01/07/07) which aforementioned that nearby are products out on the shelf, that a soul can embezzle time they snooze and mislay weight! The drugs advance metabolism while sound asleep and PRESTO the weight is gone! (yeah, apposite)
Article: "The greatest super was levied antagonistic the seller of Xenadrine EFX, ready-made by New Jersey based Nutraquest, Inc., on the record certain as Cytodyne Technologies. The marketers will pay at smallest possible $8 million and as much as $12 cardinal. The vendor was known as RTC Research and Developers LLC, based in Manasquan, NJ. Majores aforementioned Xenadrine had a revise showing that ethnic group who took a medicament squandered more weight than those fetching the drug. The FTC's examination too found that customer endorsers...people who be in the before and the after pictures in numerous ads...lost weight by engaging in exact fare and have programs." A $12 million magnificent was assessed antagonistic Window Rock Health Labortories, based in Brea, Calif., the marketers of CortiSlim. Majoris aforesaid CortiSlim dishonestly promised that all users would see perpetual and nifty weight loss, and that it's TV infomercials were 'deceptively formatted' to happen as communicate shows instead than ads."
My Two Cents: Why don't they display a before and after icon of the pocketbooks of the society who buy this snake-oil? That ought to breed for both out of the ordinary viewing, don't you think?
Article: "The Bayer Corp., will pay a $3.2 cardinal well-bred social control to reunite the claims, the FTC aforementioned. The FTC same Bayer marketed One-A-Day WeightSmart beside unsubstantiated claims as well as that it increases biological process. The marketers of TrimSpa, Goen Techonologies, will pay $1.5 million."
My Two Cents: I saw the tube exchange cards altered copy of this story, and the commentator same that the fare weight-loss industry is a $1.3 billion a time period business and the fines levied antagonistic these companies amounted to nil much than peanuts!
Question: Who's overseeing the FTC?
I gone 40 pounds in the period of time 2001, and I have not gained it back, and it took me 10 months to do it, too! (See: How I Lost 40 Pounds). At the foundation of 2007, I motionless weigh 170 pounds, and I did it all lacking buying any artifice particulate. You cognise how I did it? With the things that can't be purchased completed the counter and you can't get a prescription from your doctor! My natural event in losing weight enclosed...discipline; sacrifice; combat off temptation and peer-pressure...and suppose what? All of these intrinsic worth are covered all of us...and they're FREE!
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