Comments on: 6 Cases of Shamelessly False Advertising

By: PR

PR — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:56:15 +0000

per3800: Hold it, hold it, hold it!

While you’re right that fructose is relatively safe for diabetics (like me), you’re dangerously wrong about high-fructose corn syrup!

High-fructose corn syrup and glucose-fructose are the same thing: glucose (corn syrup) infused with fructose. This makes it really dangerous stuff for anyone, but especially for diabetics, because it’s highly processed, so the sugars in it are instantly absorbed into the bloodstream.

Since they’re already processed, your body doesn’t need to break them down, so they send your blood glucose level (what diabetic test strips & meters measure) soaring, and then cause it to suddenly plummet soon afterwards. Think of the sugar high, and crash that you get after drinking a sugary soda or eating a candy bar (both big sources of glucose-fructose/high-fructose corn syrup). Well those peaks & crashes can be disastrous to a diabetic.

Diabetics either don’t produce enough insulin to break down sugars (Type 1), or their bodies can’t use the insulin they do produce (Type 2). So diabetics have to do all they can to maintain steady blood glucose levels, and avoid the huge peaks & crashes. Too high or too low, and you can go into shock or coma. You can even die. And the constant stress of those peaks & crashes does a number on your heart, your circulation, your liver, your kidneys… It can even make you go blind.

By: perm3800

perm3800 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:13:13 +0000

PosterPrinting: fructose does not trigger insulin. Only glucose does (and sucrose is glucose+fructose) so high fructose corn syrup does not impact diabetes. The excess calories are another think altogether, though. “No Added Sugar” is used a lot where alternate sweeteners ARE added as it means, in USDA speak, sucrose or ‘cane sugar’. I get a kick out of all the organic foods in my grocery that talk about being healthy cereals or cookies or whatever that list ‘concentrated cane syrup’ on the label. Just means table sugar.

By: Poster Printing | PrintPlace

Poster Printing | PrintPlace — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:56:51 +0000

I don’t know why companies even try false advertising – they only get one-time-only customers because once people find out the product doesn’t work, they don’t buy it again. Seems like a waste of money to me. And, just recently, Purely Juice just had to pay $1.5 million in damages to Pom Wonderful for saying their drink contained 100% pomegranate juice and no added sugar, when in fact it only had trace amounts of pomegranate juice and a “healthy dose” of high fructose corn syrup. Obviously, no one thought of a diabetic person drinking this, thinking it’s healthy and then going into a sugar coma. Bring on the lawsuits!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:44:08 +0000

My husband loves lysterine for mouth sores. It really helps him get rid of the harmful bacteria growing there and lets it have a chance to heal.

Some people think that the vitamin C tests were done with too little vitamin C. People have seen real results taking 1000 mg every hour at the first sign of cold symptoms.

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:24:33 +0000

5 oz of 13.5% alcohol over the time period you gave would not get anyone drunk. not a housewife, not anyone.

By: tami

tami — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:14:01 +0000

i have to say.. without ever having heard the advertisements, i discovered that listerine is actually really great for some sore throats. mine are generally the allergy kind in the back of my mouth, so a little gargle with listerine normally sets me up for several pain-free hours.

By: Nicholas Saadah

Nicholas Saadah — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:22:34 +0000

Speaking of false advertising:

“David Schardt…. [advises] people fighting colds to simply take a Vitamin C pill.”

Mr. Schardt should read up on Dr. Linus Pauling and the fallacy of vitamin C and the common cold. Not that it will keep people from taking the stuff ;-)

By: John Hoffacker

John Hoffacker — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:44:48 +0000

Pinkham, not Pickham. (You were close!)

By: adrienne

adrienne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:52:22 +0000

@ partiallyDeflected: I’ve seen those ads. I wish I could remember where, they were hilarious/terrifying.

Also, someone left the word ‘of’ out of the title on this post.

By: oose85

oose85 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:18:48 +0000

I Love Lucy made fun of Lydia Pickham’s Vegetable Compound with the vita-mina-vegimin episode.