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DietFraud.com
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Complain about diet and weight loss fraud
- Complain to the FTC for U.S. and Canadian scams: A great site, but get your phone numbers, e-mail addresses and all the stuff ready before you use
this complaint form
- FTC Warning - Trouble @ the In-Box- If you get spammed with diet drugs and quack cures - they have set up as special site for you: "Eat as much as you want, exercise as little as you want, and lose 5-10 pounds a week GUARANTEED!"; Programs or products that promote easy or effortless long-term weight loss don't work. Taking off weight, and keeping it off, requires exercise and permanent changes in your diet. All the testimonials and guarantees in your e-mail are not worth the space they take up on your hard drive. Delete the
message.
- Junk
E-mail Org. - are you being spammed to death with promises of 10 lbs. weight loss per week? Then join in the fun. This site is one of the best I've seen.
- United States Postal Inspection Service - Fraudulent Health and Medical Products -The pills, lotions and creams sold by these con artists will supposedly cures arthritis, rheumatism, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, cancer, obesity, impotency, and a host of other ailments. Hardly any of these products have been properly tested or proven medically effective, and some are even dangerous to your health. These medically ineffective or dangerous products are sold by professional con men who have no medical training, and will use every trick to get you to buy their products. Sales gimmicks include bogus testimonials from "satisfied customers," emotional sales pitches to play on your problems, and outright lies regarding a product's effectiveness.
- USPIC's home page
- Media Guidelines for misleading advertising - a .pdf file
- NIH Guidelines for the Treatment of Obesity - a major paper - June 1998
- Ask the Attorney General about weight loss products - New Mexico
- Healthfinder - a powerful search engine from the U.S.
- The Facts About Weight Loss Products and Programs - Classic 1992 FDA paper
- Federal Trade Commission warnings on diet fraud
- FDA WARNS Consumers against taking dietary supplement "Sleeping Buddha"
- FDA Top health frauds - U.S.
- Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
- Codex Alimentarius: -Vitamins, mineral supplements, herbs and spices - What the Commission decided!
Other Countries
Infomercial Complaints Actions &
Warnings
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- Infomercial marketers settle FTC charges- January 1998 - Hundreds of thousands of consumers will get back some
of the money they spent on infomercial products that were falsely advertised,
under a settlement announced Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission.So why do these people keep appearing on Canadian radio and television stations. Why doesn't Industry Canada do something about it?
- Companies build financial muscle with exercise infomercials - The FTC advises: Beware of false claims. Last year alone, more than 18 million consumers bought products they saw on infomercials, spending an average of $178 each. That means the industry brings in more than $2 billion a year.
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If you have had a run-in with a diet drug, or substance that has made false claims as to its benefit you must provide us with all the details. We will not respond if all you do is mention the name of the product.
Snail Mail
Terry Polevoy, MD
DietFraud.com
65 University Ave. East, Unit 10A
Waterloo, ON N2J 2V9
519-725-2273 - 519-725-4953 fax
Electronic Mail
Dietfraud Complaints - When you file complaints, send us e-mail. Please put the name of the product on the subject line, and send us as many details as you can. Also, if you fail to hear from the FTC, Health Canada, or the Competition Bureau in Canada, please let us know.
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