"Is It Real or Is It Met-Rx?" that concluded, "MET-Rx ... claims of fat loss and increased muscle mass have not been proven by scientifically accepted methods." The National Council Against Health Fraud discussed Met-Rx in several issues of their newsletter, pointing out that the scientific claims of the manufacturer were not based on scientific studies but on the endorsement on celebrities. Marketing MET-Rx currently features a wide variety of television sponsorships such as the MET-Rx World's Strongest Man competition and as of 2004 the company claimed the brand was endorsed by 50 top athletes. MET-Rx also sponsors dozens of athletes, bodybuilders, and celebrities, as well as being the primary sponsor of the World's Strongest Man competition. In early interviews and promotional materials, Connelly marketed himself as a 1973 Harvard Medical School graduate, and claimed he was on the faculty of Stanford Medical School between 1979 and 1986. However, Connelly was only at Harvard as a post-grad "special student" in the 1973–74 academic year. He then got his Doctor of Medicine in anesthesia from Boston University School of Medicine in 1978 and did a one-year Stanford fellowship in 1981. Connelly was an unpaid clinical instructor and was never part of the full-time faculty at Stanford. See also List of NBTY brands References ^ "Retail experiment, led by Meade, worked". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2011-06-07. Further reading Lightsey, David. Muscles, Speed & Lies: What the Sport Supplement Industry does not want Athletes or Consumers to Know, pp. 42–44: "Media Reports on Met-Rx". Globe Pequot, 2006. . Meade, Darren. DARREN MEADE v. MET-RX USA AND SCOTT CONNELLY, MD External links Bodybuilding supplements Dietary supplements