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SlimWeigh gives slim chance of success |
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 Canadian New Country Radio 95.3 hawks SlimWeigh Place a few radio spots on 95.3 CING-FM - Hamilton, Ontario's latest country music station and aim the transmitter at upstate New York and a large area of Southwestern Ontario and fill it full of empty promises and false hope. The station is also available 24/7 on the internet so that you and millions of other people can listen to this nonsense anywhere they live.
It's amazing that the owners of the radio station, publicly traded Corus Entertainment have recently changed their formerly classic rock station to the "New Country" format to garner a larger market share. Within that market must be some pretty gullible people who are more than likely overweight, and like listening to the laments of lossed loves and shattered dreams.
Dietfraud's Complaint - August 13, 2004
Official complaint - .doc format
So much for their advertising niche. They have the perfect audience for diet and weight loss scams. Lonely, fatigued, women who sit around the house all day and listen to country radio, wishing that they were somewhere else, with someone else, and were someone else that they could never, ever be.
Corus Entertainment owns four country music radio stations as well as Canada's
CMT - Country Music Television - cable channel.
Corus Entertainment News and Financials
Recent financial report on Corus Entertainment
Yahoo finance quote and charts
Transcripts of SlimWeigh promo on 95.3 FM
The following is a compilation of transcripts that were recorded on August 14-16, 2004. The voice of Colleen Rusholme is usually at the beginning, and Pam Crossno always mentions her name, even if the spot is not run in the morning.
CR: Colleen Rusholme - the cohost of the morning drive show from 5:30 to 9:00 a.m.
PC: Pam Crossno - the voice of SlimWeigh - from Atwood, Tennessee.
PC: Good Morning Colleen
CR: Pam you are not only the spokesperson and the owner of this company, but you are also a client, right?
PC: You better believe it, and that's why I talk, I talk from experience! And I like to give credit where credit's deserved, and that is for SlimWeigh. Now if you're lookin' to lose a little weight and some inches, SlimWeigh's the product for you. But maybe you've got lots of pounds and inches and you've tried many weight-loss products. Well you haven't tried them all, until you use SlimWeigh. Actually Colleen I've lossed 20 pounds on my 90-day program. I got rid of the cellulite on my hips and thighs, not to count that I sleep good at night and wake up with tons of energy.
It's so easy and simple Colleen, 'cause you only take it at bedtime - three capsules followed by a glass of water. It enhances a wonderful night's rest, you feel energized the next day. And best of all ladies, your skin will never look as good. It helps to tighten and firm the skin's elasticity. Now besides all that, as a plus, you can lose pounds and inches.
Now folks this is an awesome product. The number to call is 866-754-xxxx, or just logon to Country953.com and read all about it. Check out our web site. See all the wonderful testimonies of what other people are actually saying about SlimWeigh. And then you do your thing. You order SlimWeigh today, so you can look good tomorrow. And remember that's "Buy Three - Get One Free".
Order today and get a fourth month free on your 90-day program. That's 866-754-xxxx for SlimWeigh.
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"Do Nothing" Policies |
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OUR GOVERNMENTS' "DO NOTHING" POLICIES ENCOURAGE REPEAT FLIM-FLAMS
When is the government of Canada going to take action against the
newspapers and the companies who market this junk on unsuspecting
consumers.
We demand a complete investigation why the government has failed to take
action against any of these companies. The diet and weight loss scam industry is worth billions in North America, and much of it comes from Canada. In other
words our country is a safe-haven for hundreds of scam artists who use the
internet and advertise freely in newspapers without fear of investigation by our governement. Someone right now stands to make millions operating from the safety of Toronto, right under the noses of Health Canada and the Ontario government consumer protection branch.
We appeal to the ASC, the government, both Provincial and Federal to take control
of the fraud artists that are preying on the public. Right now, Canada is the
laughing stock of the world when it comes to the control of health quackery.
We will continue to do everything possible to educate the Canadian public about scam
artists and rogue health care providers on our web sites. But, it seems clear from
where I sit, that our governments just doesn't care about false advertising, health
scams and the dangerous products that come into our country. They also don't care
about mailorder scams that originate here, but are often part of an undergroundcash-filled pipeline to some island in the Lesser Antilles.
The world of health fraud on the internet includes dozens of other stories, some
of them are very serious and involve doctors who are try to ship quack cancer drugs
out of Canada into the U.S. That's another story, one that we will cover later on.
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Natural Health Products Directorate |
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What did the government do about diet and health fraud? They
decided to form a new office, a spin-off of Health Canada, Natural Health Products Directorate. They appointed a dozen or so people to a transition team, the overwhelming majority supposedly
represented the cream of the crop who work in companies that supply Canada with
vitamins, herbs, and other alternative health products. These are the very people
who can't prove that their products work, who can't prove that there products are
safe, and yet the government appoints them to a transition team to set up standards
in the natural and herbal product industry.
While the company that sells this particular product featured in this article is unknown, it is a prime example of what the government has failed to do. Having an Office of Natural
Health Products is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop.
Why hasn't Health Canada or the police visited the vendors, and their associates to see what is really going on. Where is the money going from their profits? Is it being laundered overseas?
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We Demand that Action be Taken Now! |
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Our web sites will cover the story of government failure to control the
false claims made in major publications, on the internet, on the radio
and televison info-mercials until something is done.
Terry Polevoy, M.D.
Dietfraud.com
938 King St. West
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
N2G 1G4
519-725-4953 fax.
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will scan them in and forward them to the proper department at the Bureau
of Competition of Industry Canada. Please send them even if the ads were
in non-Canadian publications. American and other foreign magazines are
everywhere. If we don't know that the scams are out there, we won't be
able to complain.
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