One of the most annoying things lately is the constant repetition of long-form commercials touting weight loss pills, exercise machines, and fantastic money-making opportunities. They run during each and every commercial break on my satellite service, Dish Network, and probably on the others as well.
In my eyes, the running of commercials for quackery is opening up Dish Network to not only the ire of subscribers such as myself, but those who would sue the quacks. Dish Network, beware: these commercials are advertising products which are frauds.
Federal regulators said they have sued the marketers of the widely advertised CortiSlim weight-loss supplement and are seeking to force them to reimburse customers.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it filed suit in federal court in Los Angeles against Window Rock Enterprises Inc. and Infinity Advertising Inc., Los Angeles-based companies that tout supplements CortiSlim and CortiStress.
“The Window Rock defendants’ weight-loss and disease-prevention claims fly in the face of reality,” said Lydia Parnes, the FTC’s acting consumer protection chief. “No pill can replace a healthy program of diet and exercise.”
