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Article: Miracle weight loss cure in a pill? Fat chance
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- December 28, 2008
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If it sounds too good to be true . . . Lois Watson on the health
and nutrition products that promise but don't deliver. -------------
------- CAN PHARMACEUTICAL quick-fixes really help you get rid of
your post- Christmas paunch and improve your looks?
Yes, if you believe the marketing spin, and no, if you talk to
some of the thousands of Kiwis duped into spending their hard-
earned dollars on so-called "magic bullet" products only to find the
promised results don't materialise.
Commerce Commission chair Paula Rebstock says consumers are
vulnerable to misleading claims about health and nutrition products -
and warns they should look for credible evidence to support such
claims before ...