Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!nemo From: nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: What's in those new diet-while-you-sleep potions? Message-ID: <4584@rochester.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 09:59:28 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.4584 Posted: Tue Dec 11 09:59:28 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 02:15:58 EST References: <141@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 15 > -- > 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