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Show Health Dept. Says 'Diet Fads' Are Very Dangerous As an aftermath to the congressional con-gressional investigation on the "rigging" of AV quiz shows, the attention of the investigators and the general public is currently being focused upon other methods meth-ods of deception being perpetrated perpetrat-ed upon the American people. Drugs, panaceas, cure-alls, pain pills and tranquilizers, all have received a long and intensified play via the television commercials. commer-cials. Receiving plenty of high pressure emphasis have been the pills and potions recommended to reduce weight without decreasing the daily food intake. In the October bulletin of the Utah State Department of Health an interesting article appeared in this connection, titled, "Diet Quackery Widespread," the article ar-ticle reads as follows: "There is no such article" as a "simple, safe food, di-ug, or device de-vice which will bring about loss of body weight without exercise of the will to cut down the food intake," said Secretary of Health Education and Welfare,. Arthur S. Flemming in a recent news conference. con-ference. He urged overweight Americans Ameri-cans to guard against the "fraudulent "fraud-ulent products and schemes being foisted on the public as weight reduoers." According to an estimate made by the American Medical Association, Assoc-iation, Americans are being fleeced fleec-ed of 100 million dollars a year in their purchase of spurious dietry and useless mechanical devices. Flemming said that "riding the crest of the popularity wave at the moment are the electric vibrator vi-brator devices, 'running the gamut ga-mut of hand units, pillows, chairs, tables and mattresses." For people who need to lose weight, medical guidance is very important. The possiblity of undetected un-detected chronic disease and the continuing need for health and guidance indicate the wisdom of consulting a physician. |