Think diet pills will get you the body you want? Think again …
As the average American waistline expands under the weight of our country’s obesity epidemic, millions of plump consumers seek quick ways to shed their excess pounds. The fever to look thin has spawned a decades-old, multibillion-dollar diet-pill and weight-loss industry, in which questionable products often masquerade as the newest medical breakthrough.
… the FTC says placebo pills in one clinical trial caused more weight loss than the drug. Over the 10-week study, commissioned by Robert Chinery, president of the company that makes Xenadrine EFX, subjects taking Xenadrine EFX lost an average of only 1.5 pounds, whereas subjects in the placebo control group lost an average of 2.5 pounds. (Because the case is still in trial, FTC officials would not release the study to U.S. News.)
Supposedly satisfied customers, who claimed in advertisements to have lost anywhere from 20 to 110 pounds while on the pills, actually “engaged in rigorous diet and/or exercise programs in order to lose weight, and some were provided with a personal trainer,” according to the complaint. The FTC says that Chinery’s company paid some of these Xenadrine EFX users $1,000 to $20,000 for their endorsements, chump change compared with the roughly $160 million consumers have paid for Xenadrine EFX since its debut in 2002.
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