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Featured Publications
- Weight Loss: Finding a Weight Loss Program that Works for You [PDF]
Gives information to help the consumer evaluate weight loss products and services, including important questions to ask. 8.5"x11", 12 pages, color.
Facts for Consumers
- Dietary Supplements
Explains the potential risks of dietary supplements, and that you should always talk to your doctor before you take a new supplement and avoid any supplement claiming it’s a cure.
- Health Spas: Exercise Your Rights
[PDF]
Tips to help you shop for a gym membership. 8.5"x11", 4 pages.
- Pump Fiction: Tips for Buying Exercise Equipment [PDF]
Helps consumers carefully evaluate advertising claims for exercise products, as well as questions to ask to find the right equipment for them. 8.5"x11", 4 pages.
- Test Your Supplement Savvy
[PDF]
A short quiz to find out how much you know about using dietary supplements safely. 8.5"x11", 4 pages.
- Weighing the Evidence in Diet Ads
[PDF] [en español]
Helps consumers evaluate claims for weight loss products by outlining several typical false claims. 8.5"x11", 2 pages.
- Weight Loss: Finding a Weight Loss Program that Works for You [PDF]
Gives information to help the consumer evaluate weight loss products and services, including important questions to ask. 8.5"x11", 12 pages, color.
Consumer Alerts
- How's That Work-Out Working Out? Tips on Buying Fitness Gear [PDF] [en español]
- Indoor Tanning [PDF]
- THIS JUST IN: Fake News Sites Promote Bogus Weight loss Benefits of Acai Berry Supplements [PDF]
Cautions that scam artists are setting up fake news sites, which usually display logos of legitimate news organizations, to promote everything from bogus weight loss products to work-at-home opportunities, anti-aging products and debt reduction plans. 8.5"x11", 2 pages.
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- Health Spas: Exercise Your Rights [PDF]
Although most consumers who join health clubs are pleased with their choices, others are not. To avoid the problems of high-pressure sales tactics, misrepresentation of facilities and services, broken promises about cancellations and refunds, here are some suggestions from experts at the Federal Trade Commission.
