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The manufacturers of fitness equipment can make all kinds of promises, but the Federal Trade Commission offers some tips on how to be safe when buying them. They include:

• Ignore the claims that an exercise machine or device can provide you with easy, long-lasting results in a short period of time. This is false. You should not expect to get the benefits of exercise if you do not exercise.

• Accept claims that fitness equipment can burn fat from a certain area of the body with a grain of salt. Achieving a major change in the appearance of a single part of your body requires well-rounded exercise that works the whole body.

• Be skeptical of testimonials and “Before & After” pictures. Although the fitness equipment may have helped one person achieve his or her desired results, this does not mean that it will work for all people ? or even most people ? in the same way.

• Consider the total cost. Often fitness equipment is advertised and sold in installments. Remember that three “easy” payments of $49.95 is still $150. You need to consider if the fitness equipment is really worth that much.

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