Because there are people who are taking advantage of those who are dying to lose weight. One home based service doing a weight loss scam has just been caught in Englewood.

A Union City woman, Gloria Villafane, 43, used her sister’s Charles Street garage to inject customers with a mixture of expired medication and herbs in their stomachs, hips and thighs, said Deputy Chief Arthur O’Keefe.

Villafane was arrested Thursday and charged with third degree practicing medicine without an official license.

Police found empty vials, two tables and a waiting room with magazines in the oversized detached garage, O’Keefe said. Health department officials informed police that the mixture of herbs and medicine is commonly advertised in South America as a way to burn fat, he said. The exact medication used has yet to be determined, O’Keefe.- NorthJersey

No matter how desperate you are to get rid of the bulge, don’t risk your money and life on suspicious clinics. Know if you are getting scammed by checking out the ads of the clinic. If it’s promising anything like “a secret formula to weight loss,” “a miraculous way to burn fat”, or something to that effect, most likely, it’s a weight loss scam. Nothing, not even any FDA-approved weight loss pill can guarantee that you lose weight through any easy way.

About.com and ScamWatch show more ways to find out if you are about to get scammed by those weight loss ads.

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