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Article: New diet pill's tacky name tough to swallow
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 3, 2003
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The breathtakingly tasteless name, the box, the advertising pitch,
the product itself--all of it sounds like something straight out of a
"Saturday Night Live" commercial parody.
But it's for real. There really is a diet pill called AnorexTM.
"When is a Diet Pill worth $153 a bottle?" is the question posed
on the Web site for the product.
The answer: "When you're more than 20 lbs. overweight and tired of
wasting money on one ordinary diet pill . . . after another."
The Web site shows a woman standing on a scale and holding up a
pair of baggy jeans that are now far too big for her. She beams and
tells us, "It's working! Finally a diet pill strong enough for me!"