"The 'health' and 'weight-loss' brand of exercise doesn't create desire in people to exercise on a daily basis.
Several months ago, the companies stopped selling another well-known weight-loss brand, StarCaps, that was found to contain a powerful prescription diuretic.
"Jenny Craig didn't go to medical school," begins another ad, referring to the weight-loss brand that recently began going by "Jenny".
Slim-Fast, a weight-loss brand that it bought for $2.3 billion in 2000, household-care products, so-called prestige fragrances and frozen foods together account for about 10% of the group's sales.
Now Weight Watchers International Inc. is counting on that influence to propel its waning weight-loss brand past the competition of free diet and fitness mobile apps.
Palm said that an undefeated Bearcats team going up against a one-loss brand-name team like U.S.C. would be unique.
Even with the stellar lineup, major weight-loss brands are going beyond usual diet offerings like new or tastier food to add their voices to public nutritional concerns.
One challenge, according to Mintel, although perhaps more applicable to brands like Weight Watchers tied to particular diets, is that 11 percent of consumers say they are embarrassed to bring weight-loss brands to work.
The recall of one of the best-known weight-loss brands is the latest in a series of incidents that raise the question of whether the Food and Drug Administration has adequate authority to regulate the dietary supplement industry and provide consumer protection.
The posters by weight loss supplement brand Protein World prompted huge backlash when they appeared on the London Underground last month.
