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Sprinkle some “magic” crystals on you food and magically lose weight? Sounds like a scam, yet thousands of consumers have bought Sensa, a weight-loss system that claims overweight consumers can lose 30 pounds or more simply by sprinkling its special weight-loss crystals on their food, all without dieting or exercise. Now a federal class action lawsuit is challenging these claims, alleging Sensa Products and Dr. Alan R. Hirsch are selling snake oil.
The Sensa class action lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of San Francisco, claims Dr. Hirsch and his company trick consumers into buying Sensa crystals by using marketing claims not backed by scientific proof.
According to its sales pitch, consumers simply have to sprinkle Sensa onto their meals and snacks to lose weight. The Sensa sprinkles, or “Tastants,” are supposedly clinically proven to help speed up the process that triggers your body’s “I feel full” signal so that you eat less and feel more satisfied. People who use Sensa, the website says, can lose 30 pounds or more, without changing their diet or exercising. These claims, Sensa says, are supposedly backed by one of the “largest clinical studies ever conducted on a non-prescription weight-loss product.” The Sensa class action lawsuit, however, says these claims are false, misleading and unsubstantiated without any competent scientific evidence to support them.
According to the Sensa lawsuit, Dr. Alan R. Hirsch, M.D., who appears in promotional materials for Sensa, may be a board-certified neurologist, but he is a also a “particularly sophisticated hustler, one with a medical degree and a thick stack of junk science to support the claim his magic crystals are ‘clinically proven.’”
Dr. Hirsch has been able to get by with this, the class action lawsuit charges, only because over-the-counter weight-control products have not been regulated as drugs since 1994, when Congress largely removed supplements from FDA regulation.
The Sensa class action lawsuit claims Sensa is a scam, and that Dr. Hirsch and his company have violated various California laws, including those dealing with false advertising and unfair business practices.
UPDATE 1: A Sensa weight-loss class action lawsuit settlement has been reached! FIND OUT HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR CLAIM HERE!
UPDATE 2: Sensa class action settlement checks were mailed to consumers on Feb. 19, 2014. Congratulations to our Top Class Actions readers who submitted a valid claim and got PAID!
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! My name is Sharon Hicks I have been trying to get my settlement too.. It has been about four years and it is unfair. I have documentations. I also have called several times in the last few years. I have not heard anything from them. My last contact was on Feb 14, 2014 and was told that it would go before the board. Have not heard from them since.
I Call for the FREE Trial, and they CHARGED me for it. It NEVER Worked anyways. But I never got anymore after the FREE TRIAL. I also ordered at the same time of my FREE Trial for my Mother, and they Charged me For the Shipping of that one, and my Mom never got her FREE TRIAL that is when I Cancelled mine before they tried Charging me for any more, but like I said they Charged me, and all it was was the SUPPOSED FREE TRIAL.
Three dollars?! I lost hundreds because of them and I got three dollars back from this lawsuit?! This is so stupid.
For those of you calling to cancel and cannot get through call back and use the option 2 on keypad to purchase and like magic someone immediately answers. Ask to speak to supervisor and get her/his name and write everything down she tells you. Get RMA number to return product and keep fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly. Good Luck!
weightlosssettlement.com – my aunt used this junk and guess what? She is sick too. I am going to send this her and my uncle. I think this may be the cause of all of her medical trouble.
They tell me the checks were mailed out fore I think the highest amount$15.00,they denied my claim because they said sense wasn’t sold by a drug store in my area I live in a like rural area where their are no stores and got it from Walgreen’s in another city, but I’m sure the lawyer got fat all I wanted was my money back fore the 3 packages I bought fore 49.00 dollars lesson learned don’t buy everything that sounds good it might be to good to be true.