title: [Advertisements for the treatment of obesity or deceit without limits].
abstract: In magazines the advertisements for slimming diets or products are more and more frequent. The study of these advertisements shows that most of them do not give any indication on the composition of products or on the nature of the proposed methods. The selling arguments are the most often fallacious: freely diminution of body weight without dieting and physical activities, lack of checks, no successive increase of body weight, dramatic and quick slimming, debatable informations on the mechanisms of actions. In addition these treatments are followed without medical supervision. They are the antithesis of the right therapeutics of obesities. The diffusion of these methods as that of the numerous books on the slimming diets or technics in various European countries requires a study in order to protect the patients against their exploitation and a proposal of legislation for the European Countries in the whole which will make up the future Great European Community.
authors.affiliation: Centre de nutrition humaine, Université de Nancy I.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Debry
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Debry
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising / Q000592:standards*; D008192:Deception; D004033:Diet Fads; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000178:diet therapy*
vernacular_title: Les publicités pour le traitement des obésités ou la tromperie n'a pas de limites.