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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!
All class action and lawsuit news updates are listed in the Lawsuit News section of Top Class Actions
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I used sensa for over a two years I noticed when I got to the 4 & 5 packets everytime I sprinler on my food my heart would start to rasing and I had a really hard time breathing. I went to doctor after doctor and finley to the ER. When I stopped using it the side effects stopped ! what it cost me in doctors was outragous.
I used sensa for 6 months, and I got my settlement which is 15 dollars. Now this is the true scam, how could this be. I am very disappointed when people take advantage of others that truly did not benefit from the lawsuit. What a shame. Shame on Correa lawyers $15 dollars. Really!
I decided to try Sensa Feburary of 2012, after using it a couple weeks my stomach started to feel funny and I decided to stop using it. (glad I did cause March 6th I found out I was pregnant) sent the stuff back like they said too. I know they billed me still for what I sent back (my *free* trial) but lucky for me I didn’t have the money in my account. they owe me nothing but they are still claiming I owe them. haha not going to happen! I don’t think I need to file a claim but will if I get collection notices.
I tried sense to lose weight but it did not perform as advertised.
I actually gained weight using this product and I was displeased/distressed/disturbed/offended/disappointed/by this deceived promise of losing weight. Please let me know what my options are available to me.
This product was invented and developed by Dr. Alan R. Hirsch, M.D. – he is the president and CEO of this company.
His offices are located at 845 N Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL
His office phone is 312-649-5829
Why are Sensa still selling the product if they have a lawsuit and still taking people money? They need to take them off the market if the product not working
I used Sensa and nothing moved in weight but a few pounds (2). I stopped using Sensa
becasue of my blood pressure and headaches I was getting. I am a very healthy person,
and I stopped when symptoms appeared that I never had before. My blood pressure
always have been 120/80 and not it goes up and down 150/80; 160/80. So,
I stopped all Sensa and put it on my shelf.
I have been using sensa product in August 2013. I been on the sensa product for five months now. I feel bad because they are still taken people money, and the sensa don’t work. Now I miss out on the settlement and can’t get my money back, something need to be done about them.
I submitted a claim from a card i received and never heard anything is there a lawsuit for that
I got a card about the lawsuit and have not heard anything
Purchased Sensa-didn’t work-What A Waste Of Money!!!!!!