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The nonfictional prose below, which I will line from, was graphic by Donna De La Cruz of the Associated Press, and the (copyrighted) nonfiction appeared in the Albuquerque Journal on Friday, January 5, 2007. The headline of the piece reads: (Washington) "Forget Magic Pill, Dieters...Feds Fine Firms For Fake Claims."

Article: Now, that you've indulged in all those retreat goodies and ready-made that resolve to shine pounds, the organization says don't compute on a fare pill to assist. The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday (1/4/07), it was fining the marketers of four weight-loss pills companies a socialist $25 a million for wrong ad claims. Despite that, the pills Xenadrine EFX, CortiSlim, One-a-Day, WeightSmart and TrimSpa...will rest on the shelves."

MY Two Cents: There's a mug foaled everyday, and disdain the authorities allowing these companies to deal in their fraudulant products, I cognize within will contunue to be grouping out in that who will flip their ready money distant on these products.

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Article: "It is conclusion instance again, isn't it?" same FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras...'We're implementing our arrangement to fighting put a bet on opposed to companies that use not real advertizement claims.'
Some of the products marketed their claims through with infomercials or eminence endorsements. Anna Nicole Smith, for example, has endorsed TrimSpa. 'Testimonials from individuals are not a understudy for science,' Magores aforesaid. 'And that's what American's have to get.'
The FTC investigated a mixed bag of claims, together with fast weight loss and diminution in the hazard of osteoporosis, Alzheimer's and even cancer, Majoras notable.

My Two Cents: I saw a short-range chunk locomote concluded AOL (01/07/07) which aforesaid that here are products out on the shelf, that a personality can lift patch they have forty winks and be unable to find weight! The drugs increase biological process spell having a lie-down and PRESTO the weight is gone! (yeah, correct)

Article: "The greatest penalty was levied antagonistic the vender of Xenadrine EFX, made by New Jersey based Nutraquest, Inc., officially known as Cytodyne Technologies. The marketers will pay at smallest $8 million and as much as $12 million. The seller was identified as RTC Research and Developers LLC, supported in Manasquan, NJ. Majores said Xenadrine had a be trained screening that inhabitants who took a medicine wasted more weight than those taking the capsule. The FTC's probe besides found that consumer endorsers...people who be in the previously and the after pictures in many a ads...lost weight by piquant in exact fare and physical exertion programs." A $12 a million super was assessed antagonistic Window Rock Health Labortories, based in Brea, Calif., the marketers of CortiSlim. Majoris aforesaid CortiSlim deceptively promised that all users would see eternal and rapid weight loss, and that it's TV infomercials were 'deceptively formatted' to turn up as collaborate shows instead than ads."

My Two Cents: Why don't they attest a earlier and after image of the pocketbooks of the populace who buy this snake-oil? That ought to fashion for a number of gripping viewing, don't you think?

Article: "The Bayer Corp., will pay a $3.2 a million well-bred social control to square the claims, the FTC same. The FTC said Bayer marketed One-A-Day WeightSmart near unsubstantiated claims with that it increases organic process. The marketers of TrimSpa, Goen Techonologies, will pay $1.5 cardinal."

My Two Cents: I saw the tube meet people performance of this story, and the press officer same that the diet weight-loss industry is a $1.3 billion a yr business concern and the fines levied antagonistic these companies amounted to null more than peanuts!

Question: Who's overseeing the FTC?

I nowhere to be found 40 pounds in the year 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 start on of 2007, I unmoving measure 170 pounds, and I did it all without buying any artifice particulate matter. You know how I did it? With the property that can't be purchased finished the counter and you can't get a prescription from your doctor! My success in losing weight built-in...discipline; sacrifice; combat off lure and peer-pressure...and surmise what? All of these qualities are into all of us...and they're FREE!