{"id":2689,"date":"2014-01-10T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2014-01-10T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:57:59","slug":"weight-loss-firms-pay-heavy-fines-5921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/weight-loss-firms-pay-heavy-fines-5921\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight Loss Firms Pay Heavy Fines-5921"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/cosmetic-surgery\/weight-loss-surgery.htm\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"46\" title=\"weight loss\">Weight loss<\/a> is a multimillion pound industry these days, and is likely to get even bigger as obesity and the need to lose weight grows.<\/p>\n<p>However many companies offering weight-loss programmes and products are beginning to get found out as being deceptive and dubious. Their claims are being examined more closely, and are paying a heavy price in form of legal fines.<\/p>\n<p>Some companies are also being forced to hand back money to consumers following complaints of bogus claims.<\/p>\n<p>One such company in the USA has been told to hand back $26 million after claiming that dieters would lose weight simply by sprinkling a particular product manufactured by the company on their food.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover the product is sold via a number of well-known high street supermarkets so the market is potentially astronomical.<\/p>\n<p>However the US Federal Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA) which has sweeping powers believes the company was using bogus marketing techniques. The organisation also said the supposed trials of the product were also false.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters, a spokesperson for the FDA said that the chances of losing weight simply by sprinkling some strange, untested product on food is not just unlikely it is deceptive.<\/p>\n<p>This particular company is not the only one to fall foul of FDA regulations. Another which effectively claims to clean the colon via weight-loss pills has also been told to stop marketing the product.<\/p>\n<p>Most scientists involved in weight-loss programmes and obesity research believes the only real way of losing weight is to eat sensibly and exercise properly.<\/p>\n<p>However as many people are looking for a quick fix these days, pills, potions and powders are a great marketing ploy for companies wanting to make money from receptive but gullible individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight loss is a multimillion pound industry these days, and is likely to get even bigger as obesity and the need to lose weight grows. However many companies offering weight-loss programmes and products are beginning to get found out as being deceptive and dubious. Their claims are being examined more closely, and are paying a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1845,1844,465,1843],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-loss","tag-company-fines","tag-fda","tag-usa","tag-weight-loss-companies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}