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Article: Regulators scrutinizing dietary supplements' ambitious weight-loss claims.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- December 26, 2004
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Byline: Lisa Munoz
Dec. 26--With the holiday turkey and tamales devoured, right about now you're probably coming out of your food-induced coma.
Next year, you swear, it will all be different: You'll lose weight. You'll get healthy. You'll shape up.
If you're also up late watching television or surfing the Web, you're just the kind of consumer that infomercial and spam hucksters love.
Until recently, CortiSlim was one of the products touted as a "breakthrough" in weight loss, hawked late at night just when viewers might be parked in front of their television or computer screen helping themselves to a leftover slice of pumpkin pie.
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