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The Consumer Health Digest newsletter reports:
Healthy Weight Network has issued its 19th annual "Slim Chance" awards for the worst weight loss products and promotions of 2007. The "winners" are:

**Most Outrageous Claim:Evercleanse. Ads claim that being overweight or having a protruding abdomen are symptoms of a toxic colon. "You must detoxify your body's 6 to 40 pounds of undigested food, waste and feces are stuck inside our bodies[sic]."