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Mitchell - 23 Sep 2005 20:17 GMT
There's this guy on cable touting this natural cure book.  I'm sure most of
you have seen him.  What about this "cure" for diabetes that comes from some
Asian Herbs?
OmManiPadmeOmelet - 23 Sep 2005 20:22 GMT
> There's this guy on cable touting this natural cure book.  I'm sure most of
> you have seen him.  What about this "cure" for diabetes that comes from some
> Asian Herbs?

The "cure" for type I diabetes is a pancreas transplant.
The "cure" for type II diabetes (the most common) is a low carb diet...

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lesliemm - 23 Sep 2005 20:49 GMT
I took a look at his book at Costco. Under Diabetes it says that the FDA
forbids him to publish that info. I think I'll save my money!!!!!
Leslie in Atlanta
> There's this guy on cable touting this natural cure book.  I'm sure most
> of
> you have seen him.  What about this "cure" for diabetes that comes from
> some
> Asian Herbs?
Max Hollywood Harris - 23 Sep 2005 22:51 GMT
Not to pimp an ad, but this popped up next to this thread on Google:
"Herbal Diabetes Cure?
It's True! Proven in Clinical Study
99% Type 2 and 64% Type I Success
www.diabeticine.com"

If the FDA forbids the guy from publishing, why don't they forbid this
site from being in the US web heirarchy.

On a side note: The guy you are talking about also claims that
sunscreen causes cancer, not the sun. He makes some weird claims around
dark skinned people, to prove his point that melanin doesn't have
anything to do with skin cancer. FDA may be slow, but I'll stick with
slow and steady before I start basting myself in butter to go outside.

-Hollywood

> I took a look at his book at Costco. Under Diabetes it says that the FDA
> forbids him to publish that info. I think I'll save my money!!!!!
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> > some
> > Asian Herbs?
Deb - 24 Sep 2005 10:05 GMT
No the FDA can't stop him from publishing. They are the Food and Drug
Administration. They can however stop him from selling medicine and quack
cures and thats what they did. He used to sell stuff that only cured his
cash flow and they stopped him doing that so he changed to selling books
touting cures which is protected under free speech laws instead. Kevin
Trudeau is a dangerous quack but most web sites, even stupid ones, are
protected under free speech provisions as well unless he steps over very
specific lines.

----------------------Copied from Salon website --
July 26, 2005  |  Many a late-night channel surfer has been numbed to sleep
by endless infomercials hawking ab machines, penis enlargers, psychic
readings and baldness cures. But how about a 30-minute faux talk show
featuring a slick "expert author" who promises natural cures for cancer,
diabetes and chronic fatigue syndrome and who claims that the FDA, drug
companies and food industry have withheld such cures from the public in
order to keep making bigger and bigger profits?
Step right up folks, and tune in to the paranoid world of master huckster
Kevin Trudeau, whose book "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know
About" climbed to the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list for
advice titles last weekend. The Federal Trade Commission virtually banned
Trudeau from the airwaves last year in an attempt to "shut down an
infomercial empire that has misled American consumers for years." But by
shifting his business model from selling supposed cure-all products to
peddling books, which are protected by the First Amendment, Trudeau has been
able to slip past federal regulators and continue to sell snake oil to the
masses -- first through his infomercial and now via mainstream book
retailers like Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/07/29/trudeau/index_np.htm
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Federal Trade Commission settlement with Kevin Trudeau - a prolific marketer
who has either appeared in or produced hundreds of infomercials - broadly
bans him from appearing in, producing, or disseminating future infomercials
that advertise any type of product, service, or program to the public,
except for truthful infomercials for informational publications. In
addition, Trudeau cannot make disease or health benefits claims for any type
of product, service, or program in any advertising, including print, radio,
Internet, television, and direct mail solicitations, regardless of the
format and duration. Trudeau agreed to these prohibitions and to pay the FTC
$2 million to settle charges that he falsely claimed that a coral calcium
product can cure cancer and other serious diseases and that a purported
analgesic called Biotape can permanently cure or relieve severe pain.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/09/trudeaucoral.htm

> Not to pimp an ad, but this popped up next to this thread on Google:
> "Herbal Diabetes Cure?
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
> > > some
> > > Asian Herbs?
Cubit - 23 Sep 2005 23:49 GMT
By living in Ketosis, I cut my HbA1c from 10.0 to 5.2.

Low Carb, with lots of dietary fat.

> There's this guy on cable touting this natural cure book.  I'm sure most of
> you have seen him.  What about this "cure" for diabetes that comes from some
> Asian Herbs?
Marengo - 24 Sep 2005 17:57 GMT
|| There's this guy on cable touting this natural cure book.  I'm sure
|| most of you have seen him.  What about this "cure" for diabetes that
|| comes from some Asian Herbs?

Kevin Trudeau is not a doctor, nutritionist or in any other kind of medical
field;  he's a marketing expert.  His forté is make money and he's merely
exploiting the current trend of interest in nutitional solutions for health
problems.  Don't place much stock in a book written purely to make money by
someone who has no expert knowledge of the field.  It's a shame that to make
a quick buck he can give false hopes to desperate people with his come-ons
such as a miracle herb cure for diabetes.  He ought to be strung up by his
gonads.

It kind of reminds me of a disturbing current trend popular among certain
televangelists -- like Pat Robertson -- to sell their own brand of
nutritional products like shakes and vitamins and promote them on their tv
shows.   In their case it's even worse, because they're tricking gullible
people into believing that their products are God's cure for their health
problems -- in order to make money.   It's the old PT Barnum axiom at work
... there's a sucker born every minute.  . So there will always be people
waiting to line the pockets of the snake oil salesmen.
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Website:  http://users.thelink.net/marengo

Max Hollywood Harris - 25 Sep 2005 15:43 GMT
> It kind of reminds me of a disturbing current trend popular among certain
> televangelists -- like Pat Robertson -- to sell their own brand of
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> ... there's a sucker born every minute.  . So there will always be people
> waiting to line the pockets of the snake oil salesmen.

I think birth rates have increased since Barnum's time, so it's
probably a sucker born every 45 seconds or so. Maybe even faster, with
better globalization than Barnum's time expanding the reach of he who
would ply the trade of those emptors without caveat. I suspect there
were few nigerian billionaires willing to split their fortune with you
if only you'll give all of your information back in the late 1800's.

-Hollywood, who sees the temptation of plying suckers for a living, but
sadly, has a conscience.
Pat - 26 Sep 2005 12:45 GMT
"Mitchell" <: There's this guy on cable touting this natural cure book.  I'm
sure most of
: you have seen him.  What about this "cure" for diabetes that comes from some
: Asian Herbs?

He's also against pasteurization for raw milk. Just brouse through that book
and you'll see that Kevin Trudeau is nothing but a dangerous quack.

Pat in TX
 
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