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Show ANTIFAT "CURES" FOUND WORTHLESS Official Tests by Government Chemists Lead to Issue of Warning Bulletin. rat persons will qu t tak ng anti fat cures and de ote the r flesl redu c ng efforts to ezerc sing and d et ng, if they take the adv ce of the United States food and drug department A report re eived yesterday from Wash ugton by I B Raj nor United States food and drug inspector ges results s ured by the chemists of the bureau of chemistry after a long series of fair t sts of so called anti fat remedies The letter states that the department has found that the remod es tested will e ther prove injurious to health or will not reduce flesh Women are more often patrons of these antifat schemes than men ac cord ng to the bullet n It says Judging from the letters received by this department appealing tt it to stop th s pract ce under the rood and irugs act women are usually the victims of these professors ' Most of the literature contains al leged statements of some individual woman s thrilling experience in fat form ng or fat reducing and this makes the s tuation seem real to the other women Cases are on record where women have parted with almost their last dollar in the hopes of improving the r figures No other class of preparat ons ex plotted to humbug the people has a wider sale and in nearlj eery instance they are worthless |