Well its about time, its hard to even remember all the various “Diabetes Cure” drugs or treatments I’ve seen around. Its at the point where my spam box has a hardtime deleting them all!

Well now the FTC and FDA are trying to help warn people and educate them about these many many scams and “false hope” drugs out there that claim to aid or cure Diabetics. They are doing it with their Glucobate campaign. If you’ve ever seen most of the scams and fake websites out there, this should look familiar to you. If looks and acts just like one, then when you go to buy they explain how it could easily be a real scam and happen to you.

Some of their tips for spotting real scams include:

• A promise that a product can cure diabetes is a tip-off to a rip-off. There’s no pill, patch, tea, herb, or other “miracle” treatment that can make diabetes go away forever.

• Ads that promise too much generally deliver nothing. Don’t buy any product that claims it can do it all — stabilize your blood sugar, end your need for insulin, regenerate your pancreas, reduce your cholesterol, and cause easy weight loss.

• A product that claims to be a “scientific breakthrough” may be a bust. Researchers around the world are racing to find better treatments for diabetes, so genuine scientific discoveries make front-page news. If the first you hear about a new treatment is an ad on the Internet, be suspicious.
  

Take a look at their complete “Things to look out for” FAQ page here: http://www.wemarket4u.net/glucobate/faqs.htm

Its good to see the government taking a part to help solve this. According to the FTC:

Using the results of the Internet sweep, FTC sent warning letters for deceptive ads to 84 domestic and 7 Canadian Web sites targeting U.S. consumers, and referred an additional 21 sites to other foreign governments. About a quarter of the firms have already changed their claims or removed their pages from the Internet, and several others are in contact with FTC.

Today, FDA announced it has issued warning letters to 24 firms marketing dietary supplement products with claims to treat, cure, prevent or mitigate diabetes (see link to Warning Letters at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dialist.html). The FDA letters warn firms that failure to promptly correct the violations may result in enforcement action without further notice, which may include seizure of violative products and/or injunctions against the manufacturers and distributors.

Many of you may say “Yeah sure, I’d never fall for that!” But you may be surprised. Check out the Glucobate site and really see how convincing it is to you. If you have doubts you should definitely do some more research and educate yourself.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 5:27 am and is filed under Diabetes Medication, Diabetes News, Diabetic Health, SugarStats Status, Treatment.
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