| New York - A consumer watchdog group in the United States, Consumer Responsibility and Protection, has outed Dr Archibald B. Strangelove's revolutionary "Air Diet" as a "hoax and a fraud on an overweight and undereducated American public."
"After extensive research and much consultation with the Federal Dieting Agency, we conclude that this is not in fact a diet, but is nothing other than common breathing and self-starvation," CRAP chairperson Laurie Dwight revealed at a press conference in New York. "The Air Diet Guide" was sold in book format for $49.95 while the CD-Rom and DVD "Getting Thin, Eh? With Thin Air" retailed for $69.95 each. Strangelove denounced the announcement from CRAP as "crap" and said that he had sold over sixty million copies of his Air Diet and that 51 percent of Americans "simply cannot be wrong." Legal suits against Strangelove and his Air Diet number only three, but this is expected to rise dramatically after today's revelation from CRAP. These three include the family of a man who starved to death from eating only air, and two policemen who have developed chronic gas. |
| Revolutionary diet exposed as fraud |
Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:00
