ATLANTA — Senate candidate Herschel Walker has spent years promoting and developing health-conscious products with questionable benefits and skepticism from the medical community, a review by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found.
In the two decades that Walker retired from professional football, the Republican favorite repeatedly tried to cash in on his career as a legendary athlete with a striking physique.
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