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Article: Products to help weight loss are given a pounding
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- December 18, 2008
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A PROBE into the multi-million pound slimming industry has found
that many healthy foods and weight loss drugs are not worth paying
for.
The results will come as a blow to the thousands of Northern
Ireland people planning to shed this year's Christmas bulge with low
fat meals and snacks and slimming pills.
The probe's findings have the backing of the Food Standards
Agency which advocates a sensible and balanced diet as the best way
to lose and keep off unwanted weight.
Ruth Balmer, of Food Standards Agency Northern Ireland, said:
"There is a simple way to maintain a healthy weight by only eating
as much food as you need, eating a healthy balanced diet, drinking
more water and starting to get ...