Those four companies happen to be; Sensa, LeanSpa, HGC Diet Direct and L’Occitane. Finally, someone else besides the public sees that sprinkling powder on your food, putting drops in your mouth and creams that ‘significantly slim your thighs and buttocks’ isn’t real, just a ploy to get at desperate people who want to lose weight quickly and empty their wallet just as quickly. Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission charged these four companies with deception regarding their marketing tactics by making ‘unfounded promises’ and all will collectively repay their customers a total of 3.4 million dollars in repayments. The case is part of a broader crackdown on companies that the government says peddle fad weight-loss products. Linda Goldstein, the chairwoman of the advertising and marketing division at the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, said the settlements made clear that the commission would accept only double-blind, placebo-controlled studies to document the medical effectiveness of diet regimes.
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Exposure To Mild Cold Could Aid Weight Loss, Study Suggests

A previous study from researchers garcinia cambogia extract in Japan found a decrease in people’s body fat after they spent two hours per day for six weeks in a room with http://finance.yahoo.com/news/garcinia-cambogia-extract-investigation-now-190000760.html a temperature of 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees Celsius). The new study also found that people get used to the cold over time. After spending six hours a day at 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) for 10 days, people in the study not only had more brown fat , the participants also said they felt more comfortable and shivered less when exposed to lower temperatures. Although a 59-degree room would likely be too cold for most people, it’s possible that room temperatures in the mid-60s would also activate brown fat, the researchers said.
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