Weight loss scams top Consumer Reports Top 10 list

It sometimes boggles my mind how many different weight-loss scams are out there. Turn on the TV at just about any hour, flip through almost any magazine, and listen to any radio station for more than ten minutes, and you're bound to hear a spokesperson making erroneous claims about some new "breakthrough" weight-loss product. I hate to the one to break it to you, but that product is nothing more than a bunch of B.S.

The popular website Consumer Reports listed their top 10 scams of 2007 not that long ago. Guess what topped that list at number one? That's right, weight-loss scams. In their end-of-the-year piece, the magazine highlights a company called Transdermal Products International, who marketed a patch that was supposed to make the wearer lose weight. The FTC said the company provided about two dozen domestic and foreign retailers with sample deceptive advertising and bogus substantiation materials, including purported expert endorsements and cooked-up clinical studies. Among the bogus claims, the FTC noted, was that sea kelp contained in the patch had been approved for weight loss by the Food and Drug Administration.

You can read more about Consumer Report's Top Ten Scams of 2007 by clicking here. Once on the site, clicking on the Weight-Loss link will then bring up a listing of several known scams.