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Diet clinics can be risky committee chairman says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Overweight people need better government protection from weight-loss clinics that advertise slimness but deliver health problems, a congressman investigating diet programs said yesterday.
But he said a potentially greater threat is the trend toward commercial weight-loss clinics and physician-supervised diet programs. He said the FTC is doing nothing about them.
"This subcommittee has found the medical field riddled with hucksters who ploy their dubious wares and their miracle cures while government regulators sit snooping on the sidelines," said Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore, chairman of the House Small Business subcommittee on regulation.
Wyden said he was glad to see the Federal Trade Commission going after the most outrageous of the gettin' schemes, such as diet pills said to work during sleep, mail order starvation-binge plans or ear molds that allegedly use an acupuncture-type technique to reduce appetite.
Wyden also criticized the agency for inaction against "the new tin men of television — the 'infomercial,'" lengthy product promotions often appearing to be documentaries or interview shows.
"The American people falsely believe they are well protected both by government and the ethic of commerce." Wyden said.
He said that under then-President Reagan the FTC was particularly lax about pursuing fraud in diet advertising, leading to the problem that he sailed existed today.
Janet Steiger, named to head the FTC by President Bush, said the commission had been acting against phony weight plans since 1926, concentrating on the most egregious.
"Now we're taking a closer look at the weight-loss clinics," she said.
"In the name of promoting competition in health care," the commission "fostered an environment that left us a buyer-beware medical marshal." The Commission could claim virtually anything with impunity — and did, "Wyden said.
Also testifying before Wyden's sub-
committee were women who said
diet clinics caused them or their
family members medical problems.
She advocated consumer education and said an agency task force was trying to find ways the federal government could coordinate its efforts with state governments.
Sherri Steinberg of Broward County, Fla., said she needed a gallbladder operation after rapidly losing 28 pounds through a popular, heavily advertised weight-loss center.
"We are encouraging state criminal enforcement where it is appropriate." she said.
Loretta Paneijer of Miami said she paid $2,000 to a diet clinic, advertised as being supervised by a doctor, so her 12-year-old daughter could lose 55 pounds in hopes of becoming a school cheerleader.
She said the girl lost weight, began eating normally and about a year later, after a meal at a fast-food restaurant, had a gallbladder attack that required surgery.
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