His death on June 29 was confirmed by American Friends of Bar-Ilan University, where he had served on the board, according to ...

Slim-Fast roared into the weight-loss market in the 1970s, and Mr. Abraham used his fortune to back Democratic candidates and ...

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS -- Slim-Fast has issued a recall of all ready-to-drink shakes in cans, due to a possible micro-organism contamination that may cause diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting.

The shake and bar can be supplemented with fruit and no-calorie drinks. Slim-Fast doesn't require its members to go to meetings. Greene explains that the support mechanism is the Web site.

With its food and shake products, SlimFast is a celebrity-endorsed brand that's long-dominated the diet world. "SlimFast isn't a fad, it's part of a way of life," Joe Celia, then-vice president ...

Dieters, beware: Slim-Fast has announced a recall of millions of its shakes and diet drinks due to the possibility that they could cause moderate food poisoning. Quality testers discovered the ...

In the study, Blackburn, a trustee of the Slim-Fast Nutritional Institute, had his participants substitute Slim-Fast shakes for two meals a day, followed by a “sensible dinner.” ...

Weight Watchers did not, however, earn the strongest scores on weight loss, a distinction that went to second-ranked Slim-Fast, which replaces parts of two meals a day with shakes and bars.

Slim-Fast has been burned by controversy once. In 1977, after reports that more than 50 people had died from using very low-calorie diets, Abraham had to withdraw his new shake from the market.

S. Daniel Abraham, the New Yorker who became a billionaire by tempting dieters with Slim-Fast meal-replacement shakes and selling his company in 2000 to Unilever NV, has died.