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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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74 thoughts onSENSA Class Action Lawsuit
I worked for this company before walking out! A very large percentage of incoming calls are health related where customers call in reporting side effects!!!
I took Sensa for a year or more and instead of me losing weight i gain weight with know symptoms.
When I started on Sensa my blood pressure shot to the roof. Also made my sugars go so out of wack, b and i sprinkled on my food, never loss any weight what so ever. This product is a joke, do not buy into it. If you have any health issues, do not take it .
Cancel out your credit card so they cannot charge on it any more and apply for a new one. I know it is a hassle, but it is the only way to make them stop. To get your money back, be as persistant as they were in getting your money away from you. Just keep on calling them, and talk to a manager not the customer service. They may ignore your calls and give you the run-around, but persistance does pay off in the end. f this doesn’t work tell them you will go to the better business bureau and complain about them, and file action against them. That will get therir ears opened a bit more.
I tried for several months, all it give me its high blood sugar level. My dr. been so apset when i show him this crystal powder. How naive i am?! for several months they charge me $89.99 even be told to pay just for shipping 9.99originaly. And finally they do not want to cancel my order.
I tried it and done exactly what it said to do. I even carried it when I went out to eat. NO GOOD RESULTS!!!! They claim it doesn’t have a taste, but it does. I still have alittle left, but it doesn’t work so I want be using it I was hoping to lose some weight, but that didn’t happen..
Sensa didn’t do nothing for me not at all seem like I was getting bigger & bigger & it start making me feel bad so I stop taking it my stomach always was hurting & my head.
I did not like the way it made me feel. And I did not lose any weight at all. It was totally a rip off.
Tried it ,hate it and there is a taste
I found the website and the claim form at: http://www.weightlosssettlement.com. If you go to this site, you can read about thesuit, and what they are proposing in it. On the bottom their is a your option. If you click file form you will come to another page that will ask you your purchase and control number. If you do not have them, you can fill out another form and they will reserch this for you. Good Luck !!
we got took,did nothing for me.