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Quackery

This year, we Americans will spend billions of dollars on products that do
nothing for us - or may even harm us. And we'll do it for the same reason people
have done it since ancient times... We want to believe in miracles. We want to
find simple solutions and shortcuts to better health. It's hard to resist. All
of us, at one time or another, have seen or heard about a product - a new and
exotic pill, a device, or potion - that can easily solve our most vexing problem.
With this product, we're told, we can eat all we want and still lose weight. We
can grow taller or have bigger breasts. Or we can overcome baldness, age,
arthritis, even cancer. It sounds too good to be true - and it is. But we're
tempted to try the product in spite of all we know about modern medical science
- or perhaps because of it. After all, many treatments we take for granted today
were once considered miracles. How can we tell the difference?

Not all advertisements for health products are......

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