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TV exercise devices: 6-pack abs in 14 days?(Health & Fitness Section)
If you believe that an exercise machine can reshape your body in two weeks, have we got an AMAZING! offer for you. Lots of offers, actually, from doctors, fitness experts, and regular Joes and Jills who claim in infomercials that their devices can remove the pint of holiday eggnog that has migrated to your hips. Do such machines work? To find out, we tested 12 ranging in price from $80 for the Bun and Thigh Max to $2,000 for the TreadClimber.
Many of the claims are overblown, some of the pitchmen may not be quite as devoted as you'd think (see CloseUp, below), and some of the machines are not very effective. But several--generally the most expensive--are worth ...
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