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From: nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe)
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Subject: Re: What's in those new diet-while-you-sleep potions?
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 09:59:28 EST
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> --
> Several TV stations in the Chicago area have ads for get-thin-quick
> elixirs that you take before going to sleep.  They claim you wake up
> pounds lighter.  (You'll certainly wake up dollars lighter.)  I'm real
> curious--what is this stuff really?

> ken perlow       *****   *****

Recently, a local television station had a news article on the fact that
the FCC and some other Federal regulatory bodies were investigating this
company, which has advertized in local papers.  These claim that the pills
contain some extract from the grapefruit (apparently this is different than
the vitamin pill that others have seen).  Still, the old saying applies:
"If sounds too good to be true, then it probably is."
Nemo