Walden Farms Calorie Free Whipped Peanut Spreads

Walden Farms advertised that consumers could “save 330 calories a day, 10,000 calories a month, lose 34 pounds a year” by eating its calorie free whipped peanut spreads instead of…

Pyramid Scheme Expert Issues Warning about Vemma

Business school dean cautions students and other deans.

Campbell Soup and The American Heart Association

Ad Board Tells NourishLife to Stop Deceptive Claims

NAD rules child-supplement maker must make changes to its marketing.

Puffery – A Marketer’s Right To Lie

Ads can legally lie to you as long as the lie is so obvious an exaggeration that you know not to take it seriously.

Five Questionable Pot Ads

First comes the legalization, then comes the questionable ad claims.

Greens and Whole Foods Supplements

ConsumerLab.com has published results of its quality tests of greens and whole foods powders and pills. Supplements marketed with these terms typically contain chlorophyll-containing leaves, sprouts, algae, vegetables and fruits, herbs,…

Long John Silver’s Big Catch

There be false advertisin’ abound.

The Skinny on Garcinia Cambogia

Garcinia Cambogia extract may not be such a great deal for weight loss.

Got Chocolate Milk? Industry Wants to Change Definition

Diary industry petitions FDA over sweeteners.

Welch’s Grape Juice

Splenda Essentials

Where’s the Fruit?

It is not entirely unreasonable to expect “Blueberry Pomegranate” cereal to contain blueberries and pomegranate, fruits high in antioxidants that are all the rage now.  But don’t tell that to…

When is Zero Trans Fat Really Zero?

You have probably seen the “0 grams trans fat” label on everything from spreads to chips at the supermarket.  Trans fats are now known to raise your bad cholesterol, increasing…

Yes, Mr. Wilson, Potato Chips are Fattening

I love potato chips.  The ruffled ones with a little onion dip – now that’s heaven.  But though I love potato chips dearly, they only enter our house once a…

Other Medical Literature

Hair-raising Hair Product Ads

Want to know the secret behind the lustrous, voluminous, “salon beautiful” hair that is featured in some television and print ads for hair products today?  Extensions!  Yup, fake hair.  Well,…

Unsolicited Checks & Credit Offers

So you come home at 6:00 PM, and begin leafing through your mail.  In an oddly-official-looking envelope from a company you’ve never heard of, you find a check for $250…

Ryan Kaji, 9, earns $29.5m as this year’s highest-paid YouTuber

Rupert Neate, The Guardian

Company Outed for Deceptive Marketing of Children’s Supplement

A dietary supplement aimed at children with speech delays is being deceptively marketed by NourishLife, LLC, and may be hazardous to children’s health, according to findings by truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org). TINA.org,…