Buy Walking VideosSlim Chance Awards 2008: Kevin Trudeau
The Healthy Weight Network has released their Slim Chance Awards for 2008.
The first on the list is Kevin Trudeau. Here is their evaluation:
MOST OUTRAGEOUS CLAIM: Kevin Trudeau infomercials. It’s rare that regulatory agencies look at books, given our free speech laws, but the infomercials for Kevin Trudeau’s weight loss book and his repeated violations were just too much for the Federal Trade Commission, and this past August he was fined over $5 million and banned from infomercials for three years. In “willful efforts†to deceive, Trudeau told listeners they could easily follow the diet protocol at home, even though his book calls for human growth hormone injections and colonics that must be done by a licensed practitioner. The tortured case began in 1998 when FTC charged Trudeau with false and misleading diet infomercials. In 2003 he was charged with false claims; in 2004 he was fined $2 million and banned from infomercials. Again in 2007 a contempt action said he misled thousands with false claims for his weight loss book “in flagrant violation†of court orders.
Kevin Trudeau has been promoting this book for a long time, but I’m glad that the FTC finally caught up with him. I did I review of the book here:
Back then, I said:
Don’t let your paranoia get the best of you. The reason why everyone in Hollywood is thin is because they kick out the fat ones. They don’t have a secret cure to obesity, they just don’t put fat people on the screen. Injecting the urine of pregnant women into your body is not the answer.
I’m glad the FTC was finally able to take him out.
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January 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I was on the HCG last year that was promoted in his book.. Lost 32 lbs in six weeks, and nine months later still have it off…His problem was promoting it when it was not available in the US…Now it is and is a great way to lose weight…As I find some of the ways his company does business questionable, I find his research, and what he promotes to be very good..I have the book and agree on just about everything that is suggested.. So Maybe he is not the best pitch man, he does have some sound advice. Look between the lines people..