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Weight Control:
Products, Practices, and Theories

General Articles

• Impossible Weight-Loss Claims: Summary of an FTC Report
• Low-Carbohydrate Diets

Questionable Products and Theories

• Algae Products: False Claims and Hype
• Bromelain
• Calorad (link to another site)
• "Calorie-Blockers"
• "Cellulite" Removers
• Chitosan
• Coral Calcium
• Enforma: ("Fat Trapper" and "Exercise in a Bottle")
  • Enforma Marketers to Pay $10 million penalty
  • FTC Files Second Civil Contempt Action
• FTC Enforcement Actions, 1927-April 1997
• Herbalife
• Hydroxycut
• Lipostabil (link to another site)
• Phytopharma Plant Macerat Weight-Loss Plan
• Pyruvate (link to another site)
• Silly Chiropractic Advice about Obesity Prevention (link to Chirobase)
• Slim Chance Awards (Gimmicks and Frauds)
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
• Slim Slippers: A Precautionary Tale

Questionable Books

• Eat Right 4 Your Type
• Fit for Life
• The South Beach Diet (link to another site)
• Zone Diet (link to another site)