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DietFraud.com
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Biotonic - Phytotrim scams use MBE in Hamilton, Ont. |
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Warning - private mail boxes can be hazardous to your wallet.
Why can't anyone explain the rules to MBE? - Diet frauds are not good for business.
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You just can't resist this can you?:
"So ask yourself: Do you want to be an attractive woman who can seduce
any man with her charms?
Naturally, easily, quickly? With no special effort...
Then read the following testimonial by Lisa Sinclair:
As she says in her own words: "My life was completely miserable, I was
ashamed of who I was.
Today, she's the happiest woman alive."
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Feature Magazine - cable TV guide - September 2002
Toronto SUN - June, 9, 2002
Calgary SUN - February 24th, 2002
Address in ads:
1063 King Street, Suite 399
Hamilton, ON L8S 4S3
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Phone number for orders: 866-362-1191
This inbound telemarketing number has also been used to market other products. Recently, they marketed another weight-loss tea that they called Asian Sveltness Tea in the Calgary SUN on October 6, 2002.
If you want to complain about these ads you can call:
MBE franchise owner at 905-528-6474
Feature Magazine 1-866-332-8878
E-mail - editor@feature.ca
Publisher - Marvin Boisvert
Controller - Linda Stavroff
Marketing Co-ordinator - Heidi Greenberg
Adv. Sales for Ontario - Nik Reitz - 905-201-9173
More links
One of the ads mentioned Finnish scientists, but alas, their names are not mentioned. How bloody convenient. The magic ingredient used in research is called PHYTOTRIM. Sounds catchy, almost like PhytoPharma, eh?
They take charge cards, checks or money orders.
Terry Polevoy, MD
DietFraud.com
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"Do Nothing" Policies |
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OUR GOVERNMENTS' "DO NOTHING" POLICIES ENCOURAGE REPEAT FLIM-FLAMS
When is the government of Canada going to take action against the
newspapers and the companies who market this junk on unsuspecting
consumers.
We demand a complete investigation why the government has failed to take
action against any of these companies. The diet and weight loss scam industry
is worth billions in North America, and much of it comes from Canada. In other
words our country is a safe-haven for hundreds of scam artists who use the
internet and advertise freely in newspapers without fear of investigation by
our governement. Someone right now stands to make millions operating from the
safety of Toronto, right under the noses of Health Canada and the Ontario
government consumer protection branch.
We appeal to the ASC, the government, both Provincial and Federal to take control
of the fraud artists that are preying on the public. Right now, Canada is the
laughing stock of the world when it comes to the control of health quackery.
We will continue to do everything possible to educate the Canadian public about scam
artists and rogue health care providers on our web sites. But, it seems clear from
where I sit, that our governments just doesn't care about false advertising, health
scams and the dangerous products that come into our country. They also don't care
about mailorder scams that originate here, but are often part of an underground
cash-filled pipeline to some island in the Lesser Antilles.
The world of health fraud on the internet includes dozens of other stories, some
of them are very serious and involve doctors who are try to ship quack cancer drugs
out of Canada into the U.S. That's another story, one that we will cover later on.
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Office of Natural Health Products |
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What did the government do about diet and health fraud? Late last year, they
decided to form a new office, a spin-off of Health Canada. They appointed a
dozen or so people to a transition team, the overwhelming majority supposedly
represented the cream of the crop who work in companies that supply Canada with
vitamins, herbs, and other alternative health products. These are the very people
who can't prove that their products work, who can't prove that there products are
safe, and yet the government appoints them to a transition team to set up standards
in the natural and herbal product industry.
While the company that sells this particular product featured in this article is unknown, it is a prime
example of what the government has failed to do. Having an Office of Natural
Health Products is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop.
Why hasn't Health Canada or the police visited the vendors, and their associates to see what is really going on. Where is the money going from their profits? Is it being laundered overseas?
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We Demand that Action be Taken Now! |
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Our web sites will cover the story of government failure to control the
false claims made in major publications, on the internet, on the radio
and televison info-mercials until something is done.
Terry Polevoy, M.D.
Dietfraud.com
938 King St. West
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
N2G 1G4
519-725-4953 fax.
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SEND US YOUR ADVERTISEMENTS:
Please send any questionable diet ads in your local paper or magazines
from this company. Include the date, the name of the publication, and we
will scan them in and forward them to the proper department at the Bureau
of Competition of Industry Canada. Please send them even if the ads were
in non-Canadian publications. American and other foreign magazines are
everywhere. If we don't know that the scams are out there, we won't be
able to complain.
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