Last week, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General filed a consumer protection lawsuit against the PA-based company Pure Weight Loss and its owner, Vahan Karian. Pure Weight Loss, which has about 400 stores nationwide, announced last December that it was going out of business, and yet continued to accept pre-payment from unaware customers up to four days after posting the announcement on its website. Since closing, it has failed to reimburse customers fees for unfulfilled contracts or deliver the supplies they’ve already bought.
Pure Weight Loss Helped Customers Lose Money, Not Weight, Says Attorney General
By January 28, 2008
Infomercial Scammer Kevin Trudeau Found In Contempt Of Court
By November 27, 2007
Kevin Trudeau, well known for all sorts of cons over the years—his most recent one was this diet book—was found in contempt of court last week by a U.S. District Court judge for violating his permanent 2004 injunction.
It's Science: Diets Don't Work
By April 11, 2007
“Diets do not lead to sustained weight loss or health benefits for the majority of people.”
Introducing: The CVS Chocolate Diet!
By April 9, 2007
Reader Greg sends the above photo of his local CVS. Now there’s a diet….or perhaps just a helpful suggestion for those shoppers who are often drawn to this particular aisle.—MEGHANN MARCO
How To Tell If A Diet Is A Sham
By October 19, 2006
Jared points out his amusing list of the top 10 ways to tell if a weight loss program is a buncha snake oil.
Atkins Diet Leads to Head Exploding?
By March 17, 2006
No, it doesn’t. But now that the lo-carb craze is over (again), our cholesterol-drenched hearts heaved a few millimeters higher to hear the results of the latest report decrying the Atkins Diet fad.
Mars’ CocoaVia: Life by Chocolate
By November 1, 2005
What’s healthier? Eating a “heart smart” chocolate bar packed with antioxidant flavanols or not eating a chocolate bar at all? Mars, maker of M&Ms and Snickers, is promoting their new ‘healthy’ branding experiment CocoaVia, suggesting that the consumption of two portions of the dark, hippie chocolate will help to reduce bad cholesterol.
