Consumers Should Regulate Diet Pills

Diet product has a huge market potential. An research done by Marketdata Enterprises, a leading independent market research publisher, shows that in 2010, diet products revenues has already reached $60.9 billion in the United States. Every year several new diet pills appear - each claim their own solution to weight loss. Since most consumers don’t understand the science related to diet pills, consumers can be misled by the advertisements that falsely present their product results.
Even though government agency such as fda and ftc are set up to protect consumers from diet pill scam, still, many fell for their exaggerating claim. So, there must more to be done by the fda and the ftc to regulate diet pill market.
FDA should be given additional