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

Article: Now, that you\\'ve indulged in all those trip goodies and made that resolve to deciduous pounds, the polity says don\\'t enumerate on a diet thing to support. The Federal Trade Commission aforesaid Thursday (1/4/07), it was fining the marketers of 4 weight-loss remedy companies a total $25 a million for unfounded promotion claims. Despite that, the pills Xenadrine EFX, CortiSlim, One-a-Day, WeightSmart and TrimSpa...will delay leaving on the shelves.\\"

MY Two Cents: There\\'s a mug foaled everyday, and despite the management allowing these companies to put up for sale their fraudulant products, I know in that will contunue to be grouping out in that who will throw their cache away on these products.

Article: \\"It is resolve case again, isn\\'t it?\\" said FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras...\\'We\\'re implementing our written document to fight back resistant companies that use illusive promotional material claims.\\'
Some of the products marketed their claims through with infomercials or celebrity endorsements. Anna Nicole Smith, for example, has endorsed TrimSpa. \\'Testimonials from individuals are not a double for science,\\' Magores same. \\'And that\\'s what American\\'s have to get.\\'
The FTC investigated a motley of claims, as well as rapid weight loss and decline in the risk of osteoporosis, Alzheimer\\'s and even cancer, Majoras famed.

My Two Cents: I saw a succinct lump move complete AOL (01/07/07) which same that there are products out on the shelf, that a individual can steal piece they physiological state and misplace weight! The drugs advance biological process while slumbering and PRESTO the weight is gone! (yeah, correct)

Article: \\"The biggest dusty was levied opposed to the merchandiser of Xenadrine EFX, made by New Jersey based Nutraquest, Inc., formally better-known as Cytodyne Technologies. The marketers will pay at smallest possible $8 cardinal and as markedly as $12 a million. The trafficker was identified as RTC Research and Developers LLC, supported in Manasquan, NJ. Majores aforesaid Xenadrine had a exploration viewing that folks who took a medication squandered more weight than those attractive the pill. The FTC\\'s enquiry too found that consumer endorsers...people who happen in the until that time and the after pictures in numerous ads...lost weight by piquant in rigorous fare and elbow grease programs.\\" A $12 a million super was assessed antagonistic Window Rock Health Labortories, supported in Brea, Calif., the marketers of CortiSlim. Majoris aforementioned CortiSlim dishonestly promised that all users would see irreversible and nippy weight loss, and that it\\'s TV infomercials were \\'deceptively formatted\\' to seem as confer shows to some extent than ads.\\"

My Two Cents: Why don\\'t they broadcast a earlier and after see in your mind's eye of the pocketbooks of the population who buy this snake-oil? That ought to brand for both newsworthy viewing, don\\'t you think?

Article: \\"The Bayer Corp., will pay a $3.2 million gracious penalization to secure the claims, the FTC aforesaid. The FTC aforementioned Bayer marketed One-A-Day WeightSmart next to unsupported claims plus that it increases organic process. The marketers of TrimSpa, Goen Techonologies, will pay $1.5 a million.\\"

My Two Cents: I saw the television framework performance of this story, and the correspondent aforementioned that the fare weight-loss commercial enterprise is a $1.3 a billion a yr firm and the fines levied against these companies amounted to aught much than peanuts!

Question: Who\\'s overseeing the FTC?

I mislaid 40 pounds in the period 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 move into of 2007, I unmoving weigh 170 pounds, and I did it all minus purchasing any charming dust. You know how I did it? With the material possession that can\\'t be purchased ended the negative and you can\\'t get a prescription from your doctor! My occurrence in losing weight included...discipline; sacrifice; fighting off draw and peer-pressure...and speculation what? All of these virtues are inside all of us...and they\\'re FREE!