Canadian Company Sued for Defrauding Consumers of Green Tea Hoodia Supplements
SlimQuick, NV, and Liquid Hoodia are three green tea hoodia supplements marketed and sold by Canadian-based Wellnx Life Sciences. Lawsuits have been filed against the company by consumers in sixteen states.
Wellnx, based in a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of these products to women who were led to believe these diet supplements would help them lose weight, the suit claims.
Wellnx made claims in their marketing and selling of these supplements that the key ingredients in them, green tea and hoodia gordonii, would produce rapid weight loss. The suit alleges that these claims are false and not supported by science.
The suit is correct. There are no studies to date that “prove” that green tea hoodia supplements taken alone will result in rapid weight loss. There are some studies that suggest green tea may help increase metabolism slightly but the participants in those studies were ingesting several cups of green tea per day – significantly more than what you’d find in a typical green tea hoodia supplement. Furthermore, the increase in metabolism found in those studies was negligible.
As for hoodia gordonii, it is simply a natural appetite suppressant (if it works). It does not increase metabolism nor does it burn fat. The idea behind hoodia diet pills is that if you feel full, you’ll eat less. Thus you’ll lose weight.
The other interesting thing about this lawsuit is that the lawyers involved argue that these supplements sold by Wellnx contain little or none of the ingredients that were supposed to produce fast weight loss. The products were randomly purchased and then tested by an independent lab. The lab tests showed that the supplements either didn’t contain the “weight loss ingredients” (green tea and hoodia), or they had just trace amounts that were too low to have any affect on weight loss.
This doesn’t surprise me either as I have stated numerous times throughout this website that the majority of the hoodia supplements sold today are fake, or at the very least vastly inferior. It is imperative that you look for independent lab test results for any diet pills that contain hoodia to ensure that what you are buying is authentic.
So the next time you buy supplements that contain hoodia, whether it be pure hoodia diet pills like those listed on my best rated page, or a combination green tea hoodia supplement, make sure they past the test!
Resource: MarketWatch.com
