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elderly and health
FRAUD
Elderly Americans are swindled
out of more than $lO billion by
health charlatans every year. Why
docs this happen? Because the
incidence of disease increases as
people grown older. Promoters of
unproven health products have
found a lucrative market in the
expanding elderly population.
They capitalize on senior citizen's
desires to prevent or cure diseases,
to relieve pain and to live a longer
life. Health quacks attempt to offer
their potential customers "cure
all" remedies for both real and ima
ginary diseases. In selling these
remedies, they may misrepresent
data on scientific theories of aging.
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They also may promote miscon
ceptions about nutrition and the
quality of the nations' food supply.
Sometimes they may even try to
exploit the religious beliefs of their
customers, for example, those
whose religion forbids surgery.
Examples of unproven remedies
include anti-aging products, arthri
tis "treatments" such as chelation
therapy; and cancer "cures" such
as Laetrile, herbal teas, coffee ene
mas, and severely restricted diets.
The people who buy these reme
dies risk far more than their money
because using these products can
have serious medical
consequences.
Some senior citizens who buy
these products believe that they
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really work, so the supposed bene
fits of certain products may be due
to placebo effects or relief of psy
chosomatic symptoms.. Other
elderly consumers are
embarrassed or refuse to admit that
they have been deceived. Since
many people fail to report promo
tion of questionable health pro
ducts, sales of these products often
continue unhindered for a long
time.
Unfortunately, state and federal
regulatory agencies and the medi
cal community often do very little
to discourage promoters of ques
tionable health products. Many
people think that health fraud is not
receiving the attention it should.
How can people protect them
selves and learn to distinguish
between reputable health profes
sionals and health quacks?
According to some of the experts,
consumers of all ages should
beware of people who do the
following:
1. Display credentials or
degrees unfamiliar to reputable
scientists or educators.
2. Promise quick, dramatic mir
aculous cures.
3. Claim that: Most Americans
are poorly nourished; Sugar is a
deadly poison; Most disease is the
result of a faulty diet, and can be
treated by nutritional methods;
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