Topic: diet drugs

This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered companies to stop selling homeopathic hCG diet products. The pills, pellets and drops—diluted from pregnancy hormone hCG—are fraudulent and ineffective for weight loss, the agency said. It’s the latest in a series of FDA crackdowns on illegal weight-loss products—though previous efforts have mostly involved faux-’natural’ diet aids laced with unlisted (and often illegal) pharmaceuticals. The problem with the homeopathic hCG products—that they actually contain little to no trace of an active substance (in this case hCG)—is uncommon in the diet drug world, though typical of homeopathic remedies. More »