During Healthy Weight Week, between January 16-22, the annual Slim Chance Awards will take place. The action was started 16 years ago by the organization Healthy Weight Network, as a reaction to the multitude of unsafe products on the market.

As obesity has reached alarming levels becoming a national problem, Americans have come to an obsession regarding weightloss. The incessant rush for “magic” solutions is the cause of a great number of problems related to diet supplements.