A broad range of therapeutic approaches
It’s always so heartwarming to see a corporation win an award for marketing fake meds to credulous customers.
The American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists (AAHP) has awarded Wegmans Food Markets with the Integrative Medicine Award. This honor recognizes a retailer that promotes and sells products that encompass a broad range of therapeutic approaches to achieve optimal health and wellness for consumers seeking to participate actively in their healthcare.
Whuff whuff fluff uff fuff fuff. “A broad range of therapeutic approaches” including ones that don’t work. “For consumers seeking to participate actively in their healthcare” by throwing their money away on water labeled as homeopathic “medicine.” I have a wonderful piece of land in Florida I’d like to sell you.
“On behalf of Wegmans, I am happy to accept AAHP’s Integrative Medicine Award,” said Karen Shadders, Vice President of Health, Wellness, Home & Entertaining at Wegmans, who attended the reception. “We strive to offer our consumers as much choice as possible when it comes to caring for the health of their families and themselves.”
Including the “choice” of potions and powders with no active ingredients at all but lots of advertising. Some “choice.”
Founded in 1923, the American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists (AAHP) is the leading industry association for the manufacturers, distributors and marketers of homeopathic drugs. AAHP promotes excellence in the practice of homeopathic pharmacy, manufacturing, marketing and distribution by supporting the requirements, criteria and published guidelines in the HPUS, relevant Federal statutes, as well as other industry regulations/compendia — all to help members provide safe, effective homeopathic medicines to consumers, retailers and healthcare practitioners.
It’s just open fraud. The medicines can’t be “effective” except as placebos, and all this “homeopathic pharmacy, manufacturing, marketing and distribution” is nothing but a scam. Shame on them.
Pretty much by definition, homoeopathic drugs are not drugs, they’re water. Hopefully pure, sterile, water.
I participate actively in my healthcare, but I don’t use alternative therapies. I take my own blood sugars daily, I exercise, I eat my veggies, and I take the prescribed medicines for chronic conditions that need treatment (or acute ones as they rise) after having done my homework to be aware of the medicines, their active ingredients, their side effects, and their other drug interactions. Oh, and I go to my doctor when I need to, and I sought out a doctor who will actually talk to me and tell me what my tests showed, and other things that are important.
Going into the store and buying water labeled medicine is not participating actively in your healthcare, it’s participating passively in your potential life-threatening illness regime.
As Dara O’Briain said about homeopathic “medicines”, you can’t overdose, but you can f**king drown.
Homeopathic products self- identify as drugs, though. Alternative medicines are medicines, period.
snerk
Got me there Sastra, watertight argument ;-)
“Whuff whuff fluff uff fuff fuff.” – Are you imitating Boris Johnson?
@clamboy:
I’m away from my usual news sources at the moment but I managed to catch Johnson on TV last night being asked about Trump’s racism and whether or not the UK should be condemning it given that we will have little choice but to enter a disastrous trade deal with the US post-Brexit.
“Whuff whuff fluff uff fuff fuff” is exactly what Johnson said, but the BBC ‘interpreted’ it as… well, as what they thought would make a better story. Isn’t that exactly what the press did with Trump in the early days? Take some garbled nonsense and say “well, what he meant was…”
The fact that politicians are so unclear in the first place that their every sentence needs an interpreter is alarming enough. The fact that respected news organisations are interpreting it in such a way to make a good story (not even to make money or push a political agenda) is terrifying.
Also, did you see the bit where Hunt said something like “this is an appalling thing for anyone, especially a president, to say” and Johnson said “as the leader of a great nation, you can’t say this sort of thing”?
Those statements are not equivalent. One says it’s bad to be racist, the other says you shouldn’t tell people that you’re racist if you’re in charge of a country. Yet the audience and the BBC treated the statements as the same, strong condemnation of Trump’s racism.
I despair.
There is an element of truth in Johnson’s version though, even if it’s not what he meant. It’s particularly hideous in a top dog because he’s telling the people of the great nation that they should get out, according to him, Mister Top Dog. He OF ALL PEOPLE should not be saying that.
Oh, certainly.
But I don’t think that’s what he meant. I think he was talking about the optics. I don’t think he cares at all about the consequences to other people. I think he meant “presidents shouldn’t say that because it makes them look bad”, not “anyone who says that is a racist arsehole and presidents of all people shouldn’t be racist arseholes”.
Agreed. It’s just that the fact that he IS the president and is doing this makes me thrash back and forth with helpless rage.
On the shelf, most Homeo-potions are in the form of ‘tinctures’ in alcohol, or pills traditionally made of lactose.