Just How ‘Diet’ Is That Diet Soda?

Advocacy group urges federal agencies to investigate what they call deceptive “diet” claims.

Can’t Keep a Bad Ad Man Down

Why can’t the FTC put some hucksters out of business for good?

Nutrafol Needs to Shed Its Deceptive Hair Growth Claims

Illegal claims that company’s products prevent hair loss also need to go.

Jury Convicts Trudeau of Contempt for Misleading Infomercials

Diet book pitchman jailed and awaiting sentencing.

Green Coffee Bean Extract Marketer To Refund Customers

Marketers made millions off “Oz effect” but FTC says there was no proof the supplement worked.

Trimjoy’s ‘Dr. Julia Becker’

There are several red flags regarding this purported doctor.

By the Numbers: Federal Crackdown on Dietary Supplements

Regulators send united message about deceptively marketed supplements.

The Weight of Whole Foods Products

Noom

Losing weight on a pancake diet? The odds are stacked against you.

Supplements Containing Acacia Rigidula

Companies whose weight-loss supplements contain perennial shrub receive FDA warning letters.

Counterfeit Ozempic

FDA says it has seized “thousands of units” of fake shots.

Vemma Health Claims

Cel MD Skin and Hair Loss Products

Garcinia Cambogia ZT/Allure

Company marketing weight-loss products referred to FTC after ad claims are challenged.

EllieMD Semaglutide Sublingual Drops

What you should know about this telehealth company’s compounded medication.

What You Should Know about Apple Cider Vinegar Supplements

TINA.org explores the divide between the marketing and the science.

Plexus Worldwide

TINA.org investigated Plexus Worldwide, an Arizona-based multilevel marketing company that sells nutritional supplements and weight-loss and personal care products, and found that the company has used unsubstantiated disease-treatment claims to…

Obesity Research Institute

TINA.org investigated Obesity Research Institute’s marketing of its weight-loss supplement Lipozene. To read more about that investigation and subsequent complaint, click here.

Does Dr. Oz Belong on Our Wall of Shame?

America’s favorite TV doctor has been up to some questionable practices.

Xtreme Nitro and Maxx Test 300

Want to see almost every suspicious weight-loss ad technique in one place?