| Scam Alert: Diet Pills May Be Extremely Costly
(CBS) NEW YORK For millions of Americans, diet and exercise just doesn't cut it, which is why the diet pill business is booming and leaving plenty of room for manufacturers to make weighty promises. But CBS 2's Consumer Reporter Kirstin Cole has a warning about a diet aid thats only helping to lighten a dieter's wallet. "I received this email soliciting me to try this new diet aid," explains Theresa Reinhardt about an offers she says she couldn't refuse. "It was a free trial," she says. The free pills, called Phentrazine, promised to work like the powerful prescription drug, Phentermine, by increasing metabolism while suppressing the appetite. There is some evidence that green tea may help you with weight loss, but can Phentrazine really increase your metabolic rate by more than 75 percent and help you drop as much as 19 percent in total body fat, as the manufacturer claims? "Slim chance, "says Tod Cooperman, with the independent supplement testing firm, Consumer Lab.
Zoo hopes new diet will help dying tiger
FREDERICTON -- The health issues facing an old, dying tiger in a New Brunswick zoo are symptomatic of problems confronting zookeepers across North America as they cope with a growing population of geriatric animals. Officials at the small Magnetic Hill Zoo in Moncton, N.B., have attracted worldwide attention in their search for ways to keep the zoo's star attraction, Tomar the Siberian tiger, alive and comfortable despite kidney failure. Zoo general manager Bruce Dougan said Tomar is responding well to a new diet and medications -- including blood-pressure and antacid pills, designed to reduce pressure on the 19-year-old cat's failing kidneys. "We're feeding him egg yolks, ducks and fatty cuts of meat because the fat will give him the nutrition he needs, the energy he needs for his day-to-day activities and it won't give him as much urea to process," Dougan said.
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