Herbalife - a drug addiction?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Goddamn spammer, I was thinking if Avon Lady had come back, but then checked the date.

Ditto

[Onkel Neal]

Spammer removed, gmail banned again.

[Safe-Keeper]

Oh, It's not for me. Our relative got into it, and we want to convince her to get out of it!!! but she's a doctor, and she says it looks ok and she needs more proof than internet stories.

So let me get this straight: the way I'm reading this, she found a pyramid scheme, signed up, and then asked you to prove it was not a good idea? Why is the burden of proof so hard to get for so many people?

Also something to think about: 'drugs' like Herbalife are not regulated by the government which means there is no guarantee of purity or contents and furthermore extensive testing has not been done to make sure there are no side effects. My wife is a pharmacist and gets a lot of people asking about Herbalife and silimar miracle weight loss drugs.

Lots of people, for some odd reason, are so deep in scare mongering and conspiracy theories about "Big Pharma" and "synthetic medicine" that they forget that just because a remedy is "natural" (which many "Big Pharma" remedies are, too, of course), that doesn't mean it's automatically safe or without side-effect.

My local paper ran an article (my summary/translation here) on herbal remedies used by pregnant women, and their various side-effects, which included cancer and miscarriage. Of course this produced an outrage in the comments field from supporters of this kind of remedies, because obviously these people didn't like to be pulled out of their fantasy world in which herbs for some unknown, magical reasons had no side-effects whatsoever.

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[Letum]

Safe-Keeper....your replying to a post made in 2005.
Let the thread rest in peace.

[Safe-Keeper]

Sorry. Saw the thread way up on the top of page one, didn't occur to me to check the dates and years.