A news station here has a consumer awareness thing where people can write in and ask them to test things seen in TV commercials and they frequently do the fat burners and diet aids and so on. by themselves they don't work and with out them the people in the test had the same results. The reason these things can continually be advertized and sold is because in the comercials in very VERY small pront usually at the very bottom of the screne when a very colorful background or person is in the upper portions of the screne to divert attention you will see the words " this product has not been FDA approved" and "results very" and "when following a normally healthy diet , exercise and 8 large glasses of water a day"

With or without the diet aids people lose weight with a normal healthy diet of one serving (serving sizes marked on the food packaging) at meal times of one item from each of the food pyramid and 8 large glasses of water a day and 30 minutes of walking, or biking or other forms of exercise a day.

As for the protein bars if you look up the ingrediants they are forms of sugar and a very little bit of protein - a person can get the same amount of protein by eating two table spoons of peanut butter. those that are peanut butter flavored that is the "protein" in that bar. The bar mixes the sugars and protein so that the person either gets or thinks they are getting more energy so they are more active.

In the testing they covered normal quaker cerail bars with the label of the boosting bars and they had the same results as those with the real thing. It all boiled down to a healthy intake of food water and exercise. So now the show sponsers a lose weight segment where people can write in and participate in a wieght lose program contest and they pay for time in the gym with a personal trainer, nutricionalists and so on that help develop your person weight loss plan of diet water and exercise.