The U Taken In Report
April 11th 2009 08:20
After my discussion with the Health Centre nurse the other day, I guess I should be convinced that a lot of liquid, including cranberry juice, ought to be fixing me up well. If that's the case, why hasn't the cranberry juice I've been drinking since before I had the operation not had much effect? How come I'm now on antibiotics for yet another urinary tract infection?
I just checked out the book I bought in Cromwell during the Christmas holidays (those joyful holidays when I was wearing the blasted catheter) and it's prime remedy for UTIs is....cranberry juice, which was pretty what I remembered from reading the book before. And incidentally I was first alerted to the benefits of cranberry juice not by the Health Centre or my doctor, but by a friend.
So why isn't it working well?
When I open up this blog at the moment at any of the posts, I get Google ads for a natural home remedy called the UTI Report. Of course the ad, when you get to it, is written in that long-winded stereotype fashion that says all the same things all the other ads say: we can tell you how to fix this within hours, and here are all the testimonials, and all you have to do is click here. As always they don't say on that page how much it's going to cost you (though the grocery items involved cost less than $20) and as always they offer you a money-back guarantee if it doesn't work (it should work, right, if the testimonials are anything to go by), and as always, just when you think you've finished reading all the way through it, you find it's starting up again, like those dreadful infomercials on TV. And if you click on the other Google ad that's at the top of the page you'll find it's basically just another version of the same thing, and eventually leads you back to the same page. Someone called Mary Jo Barton is making a lot of money out of UTIs!
You Google UTIs and cures on the Net, and find a page that - wow! - is written by Joe Barton, who doesn't give away the famous 'secret remedy' either, even though the page looks all official and medical. Several more Google results come back either to Joe or someone else promoting the same UTI Report.
Another site at least offers some actual on the page assistance: 19 special herbs and the quantities needed, all detailed out for you. And then you read an FDA warning.
Joe Barton turns up again in the next Google result (he must spend all his time repeating the same bits of info over and over on as many sites as possible). This time he gives you 5 Ways to Cure your Urinary Tract Infection at Home (probably the same ways Mary Jo offers - for a fee).
These include firstly believing in natural remedies, because antibiotics kill off the good bacteria along with the bad. Secondly, boosting your immunity with Vitamin C. Hmmm.
Thirdly avoiding drink and foods with high acidic content: coffee, tea, chocolate, oranges, pineapple, strawberries, tomatoes, wine, soft drinks, chicken, steak, corn, eggs and sour cream. Hmmm again....
Taking Echinacea for the fourth point. And fifth: buying the famous UTI Report. Oh, dear.
Finally on Janice's Health Tips page we get some info that doesn't involve buying the Barton's UTI Report.
Janice is into...Cranberry Juice. But wait, that's not all! Orange juice and lime juice. (Hey, aren't they on the Barton's acidic list?). Raw grapes, a banana a day (hasn't worked for me, as I've eaten a banana a day for years), water melon seeds and finally homeopathic remedies.
At this rate I'd need to carry round my own personalized tote bags to keep all the stuff in!
Think this topic deserves a second post, in which I'll try and find some real health sites, not ones that only want to make money out of you.
I just checked out the book I bought in Cromwell during the Christmas holidays (those joyful holidays when I was wearing the blasted catheter) and it's prime remedy for UTIs is....cranberry juice, which was pretty what I remembered from reading the book before. And incidentally I was first alerted to the benefits of cranberry juice not by the Health Centre or my doctor, but by a friend.
So why isn't it working well?
When I open up this blog at the moment at any of the posts, I get Google ads for a natural home remedy called the UTI Report. Of course the ad, when you get to it, is written in that long-winded stereotype fashion that says all the same things all the other ads say: we can tell you how to fix this within hours, and here are all the testimonials, and all you have to do is click here. As always they don't say on that page how much it's going to cost you (though the grocery items involved cost less than $20) and as always they offer you a money-back guarantee if it doesn't work (it should work, right, if the testimonials are anything to go by), and as always, just when you think you've finished reading all the way through it, you find it's starting up again, like those dreadful infomercials on TV. And if you click on the other Google ad that's at the top of the page you'll find it's basically just another version of the same thing, and eventually leads you back to the same page. Someone called Mary Jo Barton is making a lot of money out of UTIs!
You Google UTIs and cures on the Net, and find a page that - wow! - is written by Joe Barton, who doesn't give away the famous 'secret remedy' either, even though the page looks all official and medical. Several more Google results come back either to Joe or someone else promoting the same UTI Report.
Another site at least offers some actual on the page assistance: 19 special herbs and the quantities needed, all detailed out for you. And then you read an FDA warning.
Joe Barton turns up again in the next Google result (he must spend all his time repeating the same bits of info over and over on as many sites as possible). This time he gives you 5 Ways to Cure your Urinary Tract Infection at Home (probably the same ways Mary Jo offers - for a fee).
These include firstly believing in natural remedies, because antibiotics kill off the good bacteria along with the bad. Secondly, boosting your immunity with Vitamin C. Hmmm.
Thirdly avoiding drink and foods with high acidic content: coffee, tea, chocolate, oranges, pineapple, strawberries, tomatoes, wine, soft drinks, chicken, steak, corn, eggs and sour cream. Hmmm again....
Taking Echinacea for the fourth point. And fifth: buying the famous UTI Report. Oh, dear.
Finally on Janice's Health Tips page we get some info that doesn't involve buying the Barton's UTI Report.
Janice is into...Cranberry Juice. But wait, that's not all! Orange juice and lime juice. (Hey, aren't they on the Barton's acidic list?). Raw grapes, a banana a day (hasn't worked for me, as I've eaten a banana a day for years), water melon seeds and finally homeopathic remedies.
At this rate I'd need to carry round my own personalized tote bags to keep all the stuff in!
Think this topic deserves a second post, in which I'll try and find some real health sites, not ones that only want to make money out of you.
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