Quackery
This year, we Americans will spend billions of dollars on products that do
nothing for us - or may even harm us. And we'll do it for the same reason people
have done it since ancient times... We want to believe in miracles. We want to
find simple solutions and shortcuts to better health. It's hard to resist. All
of us, at one time or another, have seen or heard about a product - a new and
exotic pill, a device, or potion - that can easily solve our most vexing problem.
With this product, we're told, we can eat all we want and still lose weight. We
can grow taller or have bigger breasts. Or we can overcome baldness, age,
arthritis, even cancer. It sounds too good to be true - and it is. But ...
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health fraud. But call it quackery or call
it health fraud, the result is the same - unfulfilled wishes, wasted dollars,
endangered health. Often quack products are fairly easy to spot, like the magic
pills you are supposed to take to stay forever young. But sometimes the products
are vaguely based on some medical report that you may even have heard about in
the news. In general, when looking over ads for medicines and medical devices,
watch out for those that seem to promise too much too easily. Quack cures rob us
of more than money. They can steal health away or even take lives. Quacks may
lure the seriously and often desperately ill, such as people suffering from
arthritis and cancer, into buying a bogus cure. When people try quack remedies
instead of getting effective medical help, their illnesses progress, sometimes
beyond the treatable stage.
Quacks have always been quick to exploit current thinking. The snake-oil
salesmen a few generations back carried an array of ...
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of arthritis clinics that
offer cures. It is important to remember that pain relief and
inflammation treatments are not the same. A product that
advertises relief for the minor pains of arthritis does not necessarily treat
inflammation. For this reason, the serious condition of arthritis should be
treated by a doctor.
CANCER. Here quack cures are probably the cruelest and the most
expensive. Seriously ill people may spend thousands of dollars on
phony treatments that do nothing to relieve their disease or suffering. Often,
the quack cancer treatment clinics are set up just outside the United
States, so that they're beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. authorities.
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