If you bought Kevin Trudeau’s book, “The Weight Loss Cure “They” Don’t Want You To Know About,” make sure to get your refund. The government is returning $6.3 million to people who purchased the this weight loss guide, saying it’s filled with lies.

The problem, says the government, was that in informercials and ads, Trudeau said his weight loss plan was easy, can be done at home, and ultimately allows us to eat whatever we want. However, if we were to have purchased the book, we’d learn it describes a complex, grueling plan that requires severe dieting, daily injections of a prescription drug that’s hard to get – mostly, ahem, because it’s not approved by the FDA – and a lifetime of extreame dietary restrictions.

To obtain the drug, a person would need to either go overseas, or find a doctor in the U.S. wiling to prescribe it for off-label use. The injections must be intramuscular, and Trudeau even says to do them under the care of a licensed physician. Besides the injections, this phase also requires a 500 calorie-per-day diet for 21 to 45 days, and the consumer cannot use any medicines, including over-the-counter and prescription drugs, most cosmetics, and no creams, lotions, or moisturizers.

During the required third phase, a person could eat much as they want for 21 days, but the foods must be only 100% organic, with no sweeteners (natural or artificial), no starches (bread, pasta, potatoes, white flour, etc.), no nitrites, and no trans fats. So, um, nothing.

The “highly recommended” first phase includes getting 15 “colonics” from a licensed colon therapist during a 30-day period, walking outside for one continuous hour each day, taking saunas as often as possible, eating six times a day, eating only organic meat and dairy, and eating 100 grams of organic meat right before bed.

And the diet never ends, says the government. Consumers must follow the fourth phase for the rest of their lives, with severe dietary prohibitions, including: no “brand name” food; no fast food, regional, or national chain restaurants; no food that is not 100% organic; no super highly refined sugars; no artificial sweeteners; no trans fats; no monosodium glutamate; no food with nitrites; no meat, poultry, or dairy that is not 100% organic; no farm-raised fish; and no food cooked in a microwave.

Trudeau has a lot of nerve when you consider the government’s been after him for years. It sued him first in 1998, saying he made false and unsubstantiated claims for hair growth, memory, and weight loss products sold through infomercials. Then, in 2003, the FTC challenged Trudeau’s marketing of Coral Calcium Supreme and Biotape, a “pain-relief” product. Trudeau paid $2 million to settle those charges and agreed to a court order banning him from infomercials, with a narrow exemption for infomercials for books and other publications that specifically required that Trudeau not misrepresent the contents of the books or publications.

Well, you see how that turned out.

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