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81. Fitness Quest, Inc. Docket No. C-3886 (final consent Aug. 6, 1999)

Respondents: Fitness Quest, Inc. and Robert R. Schnabel, Jr.

Type: Deceptive Exercise Equipment Claims

Fitness Quest sold three exercise gliders -- Gazelle Glider, SkyTrek, and Airofit and two abdominal devices -- Abs Only Machine and Ab Isolator directly to consumers through infomercials, on the Internet and also through retailers. The FTC alleged that Fitness Quest made unsubstantiated claims that, under ordinary use, their exercise gliders would allow consumers to burn up to 1,000 calories an hour or, as in their ads for the abdominal exercisers, that the Ab Isolator and Abs Only Machine were twice as effective as regular sit-ups.

A proposed consent was announced on May 12, 1999. After a public comment period, the Commission announced its final approval on August 6, 1999. The consent with the respondents prohibits them from making a variety of weight-loss and related claims for their exercise equipment and weight-loss products without competent and reliable evidence.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/9905/fitness.htm (press release - proposed consent)

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/9908/fyi-21.99.htm

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