...other social networking sites because the large print doesn't always tell the whole story. Ubiquitous ads for weight-loss products, work-at-home opportunities and offers for "free" computers can cost shoppers more than they bargained...

...doctor is telling them they're overweight, there are 8 million different commercials for weight-loss drugs and weight-loss products, how am I possibly going to achieve my ideal body? That seems like it might take desperate measures." Mary...

...come in a can. Not so, said spokesman Ray Crockett. "Some have characterized this as a weight-loss product, but it's not a weight-loss product," Mr. Crockett said. "We look at it as a small step that a person can take to help maintain...

...SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court cleared former baseball star Steve Garvey of wrongdoing for hawking weight-loss products on TV that makers claimed would work even if users eat fatty foods. A judge in 2002 had cleared Garvey of wrongdoing...

...hundreds of thousands of sales pitches for fraudulent weight-loss products and delivering e-mails by bouncing messages through...School, who confirmed that ingredients in the weight-loss product sold in the disputed e-mails wouldn't work...

...and the media spot deceptive weight-loss products. The goal is to prevent consumers...Ads for so-called miracle weight loss products are often empty promises...companies accused of selling phony weight-loss products. On the Net: Federal Trade...

...without prescription earlier this year. There remains some confusion, however, over what's covered, he said. Weight-loss products or vitamins probably aren't unless specifically prescribed by a doctor, he said. "If consumers have questions...

...said Michael Menaker, a biologist who worked on the new research. Dietary flap The makers of the purported weight-loss products Fat Trapper and Exercise in a Bottle will pay $10 million in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that...

...effects, complications and risks," said Dr. Arthur Frank, an obesity expert at George Washington University. A weight-loss product "ought to be studied before we just use it willy-nilly in patients." Frank is concerned that at least one...

...publicity about the dangerous diet drug combination fen/phen, I wonder if there are any hidden dangers from an herbal weight loss product I've heard promoted. It contains vitamins, minerals, and herbs such as guarana, ma huang and bee pollen...