Enjoy 20% Savings Today With Coupon Code: 2017 This form needs Javascript to display, which your browser doesn't support. Sign up here insteadCalifornia Attorney General Sues Magnetic Mattress Pad Sellers California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed a lawsuit charging that Florida-based European Health Concepts, Inc. (EHC) made false and misleading claims about its magnetic mattress pads filed in Sacramento Superior Court, also names EHC president Kevin Todd and several sales managers and agents as defendants. suit seeks more than $1 million in civil penalties for engaging in unfair business practices and making false claims; in civil penalties for transactions involving senior citizens; and full restitution for purchasers of the products. also seeks to permanently bar the defendants from engaging in future unlawful business practices in California [1]. Under California law, drugs and devices may not be promoted as having a "curative or therapeutic effect" unless
they have been approved by appropriate state or federal agencies. According to the complaint: Prospective customers, primarily senior citizens, were invited to attend a free dinner seminar at local restaurant where they could learn what "prominent physicians and major medical universities" had to say about their products, which were promised to relieve pain, improve circulation and reduce inflammation. EHC unlawfully claimed its mattresses help people suffering from fibromyalgia, lupus, sciatica, herniated discs, asthma, bronchitis, cataracts, chronic fatigue syndrome, colitis, diverticulitis, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, and more than 50 other health EHC's falsely claimed that its products contained "the only magnets clinically proven" to reduce pain, accelerate healing, and improve circulation. EHC's sales presentations falsely stated or implied that various celebrities and sports figures—including actors Anthony
Hopkins and Dick Van Dyke, former Miami Dolphin's quarterback Dan Marino, and professional golfer Jim Colbert—benefited from using the products. EHC entered into contracts without giving the proper oral and written notices of cancellation required by law and that when consumers attempted to obtain refunds under the "100 percent satisfaction guarantee," the company did not provide them on a timely basis. Sales agents offered phony price discounts for purchases made at the seminar that actually were the company's regular General Lockyer files false claims lawsuit against makers of "magnetic" mattress pads action seeks more than $1.5 million in penalties plus restitution for consumers. release 02-105, Sept 10, 2002. The people of the State of California v. European Health Concepts, Inc., Kevin M. Todd, Keith Howard Buttrick, Elaine Barbara Ager Herrington, John Eedley Fitzwater, David Robert Perkins, and Does 1-10.
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The book is so risibly ridiculous that even the most desperately ill would not take it seriously--would they? Apparently they would, to the tune of millions of copies sold, elevating the book to the New York Times best-seller list. If readers had purchased Trudeau's Mega Memory, perhaps they would have remembered that he spent almost two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to credit-card fraud and that the Federal Trade Commission banned Trudeau "from appearing in, producing, or disseminating future infomercials that advertise any type of product, service, or program to the public, except for truthful infomercials for informational publications. In addition, Trudeau cannot make disease or health benefits claims for any type of product, service, or program in any advertising, including print, radio, Internet, television, and direct mail solicitations, regardless of the format and duration." Trudeau had to pay $500,000 in consumer redress for his bogus infomercials and another $2 million to settle charges against him for claiming that coral calcium cures cancer (it doesn't) and that an analgesic product called Biotape permanently relieves pain (it doesn't).
Amazingly, Natural Cures is exempt from this injunction. "Books are fully protected speech. He can author a book and voice his opinions," says Heather Hippsley, assistant director for the division of advertising practices at the FTC who investigated Trudeau's infomercials. "The line is: Informational materials, OK. Products and services, banned." So Trudeau is free to dole out in print such opinions as these: "Medical science has absolutely, 100 percent, failed in the curing and prevention of illness, sickness, and disease." (Smallpox is not a disease?) "Get all metal out of your dental work." (Won't this help the medical cartel?) "Sun block has been shown to cause cancer." "Don't drink tap water." (Wrong: studies show it is as safe as bottled water.) "Animals in the wild virtually never get sick." (No need to worry about avian influenza.) "Get 15 colonics in 30 days." (Can I bring a friend?) The closer you get to white, the more positive energy you bring into your energetic field."
(Why is Trudeau wearing all black on the book cover?) "Stop taking nonprescription and prescription drugs." (Including insulin for diabetes?) This 600-page medical advice book contains no index, no bibliography and no references. In their stead are testimonials for the audio edition and a sequel in the works about "weight loss secrets they don't want you to know about." As for the "natural cures" themselves, some are not cures at all but just obvious healthy lifestyle suggestions: eat less, exercise more, reduce stress. Some of the natural cures are flat-out wrong, such as oral chelation for heart disease, whereas others are laughably ludicrous, such as a magnetic mattress pad and crocodile protein peptide for fibromyalgia. Worst of all are the natural cures that the book directs the reader to Trudeau's Web page to find. When you go there, however, and click on a disease to get the cure, you first have to become a Web site member at $499 lifetime or $9.95 a month. It is a classic con man's combo: bait and switch (the book directs them to the Web page) and double-dipping (sell them the book, then sell them the membership).