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1-800-GET-THIN centers criticized
Weight-loss surgeons from across the United States are attempting to distance themselves from surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising for Lap-Band surgery.
In a letter to House members considering a congressional investigation of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Weight Loss Surgery, Allergan Inc., Weight, Health
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FDA accuses 1-800-GET-THIN of using misleading Lap-Band ads
The Food and Drug Administration has accused the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company of using misleading advertising in its promotion of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery, saying the billboard, radio and television ads underplay serious risks to patients.
The...Tags: Allergan Inc., Radio, David Geffen School of Medicine, Weight Loss, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Allergan halts Lap-Band sales to 1-800-GET-THIN clinics
The maker of the Lap-Band will no longer sell its product to clinics affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company — a blow to Southern California surgery centers that have built an empire implanting the weight-loss devices in people...Tags: Allergan Inc., Weight, Weight Loss, Advertising, Elections
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School lunch gets a makeover
The American school lunch, long the butt of schoolyard jokes, is in for a nutritional makeover, fueled by concern over a national epidemic of childhood obesity and funded by the first hike in federal contributions in three decades. Starting next school...Tags: Weight, American Academy of Pediatrics, Healthy Diet, Teaching and Learning, Obesity
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The Healthy Skeptic: Is caffeine an effective weight-loss aid?
If losing weight was one of your New Year's resolutions, you might already be growing weary of counting calories and working out. Wouldn't it be great if you could slim down without so much effort?
Anyone looking for a shortcut to weight loss might be...Tags: Weight Loss, Human Body, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Physiology
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Inaction by regulators as weight loss surgery allegations mount
Several current or former workers for the people behind those 1-800-GET-THIN ads have made allegations about this weight-loss enterprise that government regulators should have gotten to the bottom of long ago. Taken together, the allegations are that...Tags: Allergan Inc., Justice System, Medical Procedures and Tests, Government, Medical Procedures and Tests
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That bad attitude? Blame the birth month
If you don't believe in horoscopes, you're in step with science. But that's not the same as saying the season of your birth cannot affect your fate. Hundreds of studies, published in peer-reviewed journals, have suggested that the month a person is born...Tags: United States Census Bureau, Behavioral Conditions, Psychology, Immune System, Human Body
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In-Your-Face Fitness: Is there a right way for women to get ripped abs?
There is something surreal about a former champion bodybuilder lifting up her shirt to show you her abs in the middle of a coffee shop.
Sandra Bueckert is a 45-year-old mother of two and one of the best-known personal trainers in my hometown, and she...Tags: Osteoporosis, Menstruation, Weight, Weight Loss, Drugs and Medicines
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