Industry Making Strides in Improving Tarnished Image of Weight-Loss Supplements
Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM
But work remains in an era in which the portrayal of a diet-pill CEO makes the cut as fodder for an HBO series
“Pot dealers and meth addicts are so 2007. When it comes to the shadiness factor, no one can match underbellies with the $46 billion herbal supplement industry.”
So begins the promotional material for HBO's new television series, Fat Sells, a grim portrayal of the weight-loss supplement industry set to air this fall. In it, according to the HBO Website, Forest Whitaker portrays a fat-cat CEO of a dietary supplement company, whose life of excess begins to fall apart when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sets out to investigate his company's weight-loss claims.
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