why are diet pill makers allowed to advertise diet products that dont work? Why are they being allowed to scam

Question

I have benn seeing lots of diet pill commercials ..being shown that you can lose so much weight if you use there product but in reallity they dont work. They are misleading people scaming people out of their money.cant they get fined by the FDA?

Answer 1

Most of these diet pill products clearly state on the labels that their "claims/statements have not been approved by the FDA." I know it seems like false advertising; but they put the disclaimer right on the labels. Maybe some of them work for some people, I don't know. I've never had success with any one product or combination of products. I think it all comes down to diet and excercise in conjunction with a determined mind set to achieve your goals. I have not found a magic pill in all my 47 years.

Answer 2

Why do they advertise medications that do not work, or have deadly side effect? Money!

This is the time of the year there are millions on diets for there new years resolution. Money, money, money. Many people will buy that drug they see on the TV, if not just one time to try it. Just think of the money that company is racking in......

No the FDA can not do anything because those commercials have a disclaimer on them. If you get close up to your TV (even the biggest TV's) you can read it. But read fast for it is only up there long enough as the rules say before it becomes a subliminal message (messages that are put on the screen as one or so frames so one can not see it but for there subconscious. Big some years back). Some of these commercials and the "male" enhancements use these messages because they do work. If you look for these messages you can "see" them from then on out. If they do not put these messages up long enough they do become subliminal therefor one does not see them and then they can get fined. Against the law to do.
Example of one diet commercial I had seen with a girl running on the beach and the word above sounds like and looks like the poop word that starts with sh (yahoo doesn't allow that word), until one really pays attention to the commercial. This dirty word get attention and people will remember this. I would think this commercial is pushing the lines of a subliminal message.
Anyhoo my observations...I am one who watches commertials....Pay for good advertisements the company will get you to buy there products, then wonder how on earth did you get scammed (everyone has been there). This is there job is to get your money out of your pocket and into theres. Sad isn't it?

Answer 3

These companies aren't allowed to advertise products that don't work. What happens is this:

A product is invented and advertised. People file complaints over a period of time, so FDA investigates. By the time the investigation is done, the product is usually pulled off the air by then anyway. If not, the company pays a fine, renames the product or renames their company and turns around to advertise under the new product name. People file complaints, FDA investigates, etc. The cycle goes on and on.

The fines are not enough to make these companies stop because they are making tons of money. The diet industry makes $46 BILLION every year.

Also, notice that most ads say "When used with diet and exercise." That's all there is to weight loss in the first place.

Answer 4

Even though they come with disclaimers they are still misleading. In 90s I think there was a bill passed in congress that made things much easier for dietary supplement(vitamins, diet pills...etc) producers to put products on shelves without much scruitny. They claim this would make it easier for people to seek alternative medicine and treatment, but this also meant companies were not required to list all the ingredients or tell customers if it works or not. The current policy is more friendly towards the industry than consumers. It provides more protection for large corporation than it protects consumers like you and I.

Answer 5

It's a scam.
The pill works only if you follow a certain program. It's like a substitute to food. So if you take the pills but still eating, it's not gonna work.
And the programs include workouts too. That's the catch.

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And the FDA only approve products that are not dangerous to our health. They don't care if it's work or not, as long as it doesn't contain dangerous substance.

Answer 6

Out there somewhere before the pills go on the market they do a study. There were probably about 100 people they tested on. If 51 of them lost weight, they can advertise that it worked.

Answer 7

Its not just diet pills. Most anything that sells for $19.95 doesn't perform as advertised either. Hell most advertising is misleading. It helps to remember some of Grandma's golden rules like, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

Answer 8

Most of those products are not regulated the same way prescription drugs are and are really not subject to FDA regulation any more than food is, so let the buyer beware. They can at times be just as dangerous as prescription drugs, and are never as well studied.

Answer 9

you're purely thirteen and weight-help plan pills already? Take it from me and cease employing weight-help plan pills and be energetic. each and every in view that they banned some components in weight-help plan pills, they no longer artwork! connect a activity team or some sort!

Answer 10

If they say it works on TV, then they have clinical proof of it working.

And actually a lot of them DO work - BUT you have to follow certain exact rules in order to get them to work. AND they usually have severe side effects... I remember one... "may cause sudden nausea, vertigo and death" - boy did I NOT try that one!