Because everyone grows differently many girls feel as if their breast size is not as big as they ould like. This is where the quack artist begins advertising ways to enhance the breast and scam the teens. Millions of dollars have been put into devices, creams, and lotions only for false hope. Although some devices may strengthen the muscles that support the breasts, there is no device, cream, or lotion that can actually enhance the size of women''s breast ("Quackery Targets" pars. 11-13). Teenagers take part in many different sports but no matter what the game is everyone likes to win?
Some people may take their sport a lot more seriously than others and use performance enhancing drugs like steroids. Steroids are effective but only if taken in the right doses. Quack artists come in to play here when they sell a steroid or growth hormone containing a higher dose of testosterone. This black market drug is known to stunt growth, cause cancer, and ruin the liver ("Quackery Targets" pars. 22-28). The desire to have a tan body is very common in teenagers. Both male and female -teenagers partake in this.
Some people get their tan the natural way by getting darker from the sun, but quackery professionals have come up with ways to get a quick and easy tan. Tanning beds and tanning pills are both familiar quackery schemes. Many tanning salons like to say their beds are safe for your skin. Any exposure to ultraviolent radiation is bad for you therefore no means of tanning is healthy; it is also the number one cause of skin cancer. Tanning pills have a negative effect by turning the skin to an orange color and leaving fatty deposits in the blood and liver ("Quackery Targets" pars. 23-25).
Obesity is when a person suffers from excess body weight ("Getting Started" par. 1). People who suffer from this often run in to quackery scams. These people are targeted because of their bad health habits and have no other choice then to become healthier; they are exposed o false diet schemes, false natural remedies, and false spot reducers. False diets schemes are common but not always easy to identity. Fat-blockers are bulking agents that are indigestible gels which are supposed to carry fat right out of the body. This diet scheme may seem realistic but there is no evidence to prove it can actually reduce body weight.
Quackery artists say that by taking growth-hormone releasers you will lose weight while you sleep. These growth-hormone releasers are said to normally contain at least one of these amino acids, arginine, ornithine, or tryptophan; but this diet scheme is a fraud. This is because swallowing amino acids will not release a growth hormone and if it could release growth hormones it still would not cause any weight loss (Barrett and Jarvis 122). Magic dieting pills are not everything they advertise. This diet scheme does not meet any standards it promises and can harm the body ("Beware" pars 1-3).
Many dietary schemes that suggest not eating certain foods will suggest that even if weight is not kept off in the long run that their diet still benefits the health and well-being of each user (Davis 62). Whenever trying to make healthier choices for the body many people will try natural remedies. Victims f obesity can also try natural weight loss diets, although not all will be successful. Quackery professionals suggest a sole food diet. A sole food diet is not healthy because it does not give the body all of the necessary nutrients.
Slimming teas are also said to reduce weight but are not proven to show any signs of weight loss or appetite suppression (Barrett and Jarvis 123). Homeopathic products like drops placed on the tongue and on the wrist in certain acupuncture points to reduce appetite are complete quack (Barrett and Jarvis 122). Obese people may turn to spot reducers once they have fallen for the quackery conspiracy behind it. Weight loss cream and Sauna belts are both false ways of treating obesity. Electric shock devices also cannot lead to permanent weight loss.
These spot reducers are all temporally due to water loss and muscle contractions while using each spot reducer (Barrett and Jarvis 123). Another temporally weight loss fraud would be the process of wrapping. Wrapping is when you wrap your body into a salt solution to remove extra water from the body; in severe cases you can become dehydrated (Barrett and Jarvis 124). Many people that are suffering from a serious illness have no other option but hope; uackery salesman feed off of this. The salesmen advertise new treatments that will only steal the patient''s money and give them false hope.
This kind of quackery is the cruelest because it can mislead people away from the beneficial treatments. Arthritis, Aids, and cancer are some of the worst illnesses affected by medical quackery. Arthritis is a very painful inflammation of the Joints. Quackery in arthritis is found mostly in weird gadgets like the Inductoscope. The Inductoscope was made of metal rings placed over affected parts of the body. The rings were connected by wires to an electric wall. This device was ineffective and only put the patient at risk of electric shocks (Barrett and Jarvis 102).
The Solarama Board is another device that was used to heal arthritis by placing it under the patient''s mattress. This device was supposed to rejuvenate the body (Barrett and Jarvis 103). Immune milk was also thought to be the cure to arthritis because it was from cows injected with certain vaccines, even though this milk had no effect (Barrett and Jarvis 104). AIDS is a disease that greatly lowers the bodys cellular immune system. Quackery in AIDS gives hope that there is a cure for the suffering. One example of quackery in AIDS is thumping of the thymus gland.
It is believed that whenever you thump on the thymus gland it produces more cells, but this is talse (Segal par. 3) Lubraseptic is a condom lubricant with the main ingredient of nonoxynol-9. This ingredient could kill AIDS in vitro so it became used as an AIDS preventative; this is a business of a quackery salesman (Segal par. 5). Sani-Form was a piece of plastic over the mouth piece of a telephone to protect against getting the AIDS disease from a public phone; this is quackery because it is impossible (Segal par. 4). Cancer is a disease of having an ncontrollable and abnormal division of cells.
Kelloggs high-fiber cereal brands are said to reduce or prevent colorectal cancer which happens to be quackery. High-fiber diets do not show a reduction of colorectal cancer meaning Kelloggs is not telling the truth (Milloy 3). There is no such thing as a tea that can cure cancer but quackery artist believed that if red clover tea could shrink heads it sure could shrink cancer (Barrett and Jarvis 86). Quacks have been applying corrosive agents to tumors for a very long time but it still has not been proven effective (Barrett and Jarvis 86). Any edical remedy that is false or cannot be scientifically proven is otherwise known as quackery.
Quackery costs billions of dollars every year, mainly to people who do not even know they are being robbed of their money ("Quackery Targets"par. l). Quackery is a very cruel kind of fraud. Quackery targets all sorts of people and some of which are teenagers, the obese, and the very ill. Works Cited Barrett, Stephen, and William T. Jarvis. The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993. Print. "Beware of Fraudulent Weight-Loss ''Dietary Supplements''" FDA. N. p. , 5 June 2013. Web. 0 July 2013. Davis, Robert J.
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