Senate panel scolds TV's Dr. Oz over diet claims

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Senate panel scolds TV's Dr. Oz over diet claims

By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel probing bogus diet product ads took celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to task on Tuesday for touting weight-loss products on his syndicated television show. Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, the chairwoman of the Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection, said Oz had a role in perpetuating weight-loss fraud through his show. “I don’t get why you need to say this stuff because you know it’s not true,” McCaskill said at the hearing, a follow-up to a Federal Trade Commission crackdown in January on fraudulent diet products. Oz, the host of "The Dr. Oz Show," said the products gave people hope to keep trying to lose weight.

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