Two products that have been distributed under the guise of giving free trials, and yet charge people’s credit cards and make it very difficult to stop the automatic orders from going through, has been sued by the FTC for making false claims and misleading consumers about a free trial when in fact they ended up paying for it.

The FTC received multiple complaints about the company after people tried to stop or return the product.  The products are marketed as potent antioxidants that help to purge the body of toxicity and help you to lose weight through purging the body of these toxins.  They also apparently used the names of Oprah Winfrey and Rachael Ray without the star’s permission.

A federal judge froze the company’s assets pending further investigation. Tests s

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There are two proven diet programs that top all the other programs; The Atkins-style also called the low carb diet and the traditional low fat diet.

A study conducted for a period of two years observed and documented the weight loss achieved by each group. Both groups were instructed to take not more than 1,200 to 1,800 calories per day.

The low carb diet group was supposed to take only 20 grams of total carbohydrates for a day and the low fat diet group with only a maximum of 30 percent of fat from the total caloric intake each day.

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Many of you reading this may be surprised that low carb diets are still being used as a way to lose large amounts of weight, but they are, and they actually may be a little easier to stay on long term than most other diets that use a lot of carbs and fiber, or diets that mix protein and carbs in a certain amount, such as the Zone or South Beach. Zone and South Beach are still somewhat carb reduced, but they are not like the earlier low carb diets like Atkins and the almost zero carb options.

Low carb diets, to be considered low carb and also to keep insulin levels down pretty low where the body starts to burn fat instead of sugars and carbs, actually needs to be pretty low.

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The association seems confined to former breast cancer patients who are postmenopausal or overweight or obese, the researchers noted.

However, drinking moderately (about three to four drinks per week) was not linked to increased risk for all-cause death, and may in fact lower the risk for dying from a non-breast cancer-related health issue, the study suggests.

The observations are reported in the Aug. 30 online edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology by a team led by Marilyn L. Kwan, a researcher at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif.

The findings are “consistent with what we already know about alcohol’s role in increasing the risk for developing primary breast cancer,” said Kwan.

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