Show Promoters Use Old I Trick To Sell I Fat Reducers Know Your Know s Series No 3 Promoters of so called obesity remedies and fat reducers arc are us- us using using us using ing an old trick with a modern slant to deceive fat people into spending money for worthless and dangerous preparations according to Dr F J Cullen of the Federal Food and Drug Administration I The Thc a advertisements verti appeal to the anit vanity of o people and also to the fear that the they may become so 80 stout the they can no longer be efficient effi- effi efficient effi efficient in business Surplus flesh says Cullen I lma may be due to two general causes First it may be constitutional or due to metabolism or o r digestive processes abnormal but natural to the particular individual Second it may be due to eating too much rich or fat-building fat foods and to a lack of healthful exercise Reducing might not be a difficult matter in the second case with correct dieting and exercise But a person who carries excess weight due to abnormal digestive process process- processes es should be extremely cautious about reducing reducing- and should do so only onh under the care ofa of a physician In either case one should not trust to indi indiscriminate criminate use Ise of called so-called so obesity cures I I r Cul Cullen en points out that the ma- ma majority ma majority of so-called so fat reducers of-I of of- of offord ford of-ford l ford for sale contain either cither th thy thy- thyroid roid extract or laxative drugs thI I Thyroid extract is dan dangerous rous and should be used only under th the direction direction di- di i of a physician Unwise c and lon long continued continued dosing closing do n with fat re- re rc reducers while it rna may reduce wei weight ht has a ten tendency enc to cause irritation in the stomach and intestines and this may finally firing bring rin about per per- permanent per per- permanent permanent manent harm to the he user A drug or me medicine medicine is misbrand misbrand- misbranded misbrand misbrand-ed ed under the Federal food and drugs act if its label has hag any false or Thee fraudulent remedial claims The law however loe does docs not apply to collateral or outside ad arc e a f sin I A buyer therefore would do well t ito to compare statements printed upon the label of the article with claims rude for it in newspapers I magazines or by radio I |