well, if you re one of the millions of people who s resolved to lose weight this year, you should know about this. the federal trade commission has charged for companies with deceptive advertising related to their weight loss products. just how bold are some of the claims? one commercial for a product called sensa tells viewers to simply sprinkle sensa on, eat all the foods you love and watch the pounds come off. a lot of people apparently swallowed that line. court documents show sensa raked in nearly $364 million in profits between 2008 and 2012. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me tonight. so, what are these products claiming to do? these products in many ways, anderson, were claiming to do magic. for example, one of them, sense sensa was saying that if you sprinkled this product on your
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cracking down on weight loss products. it says these products lure customers with ridiculously misleading claims. four companies have been charged. details on them ahead.
if you re one of the millions of people who s resolved to lose weight this year you should know about this. the federal trade commission has charged four companies with deceptive advertising related to their weight loss products. just how bold are some of the claims? one commercial for a product called sensa tells viewers to quote simply sprinkle sen is an on, eat all the foods you love and watch the pounds come off. documents show sensa raked in $364 million in profits between 2008 and 2012. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me tonight. so elizabeth, what exactly were these products claiming to do? these products in many ways, anderson, were claiming to do magic. for example, one of them, sensa, was saying that if you sprinkle this product on your food that you would feel fuller faster and therefore would lose weight. another product said if you just