It looks like our friend Alicia is not alone in her illegal Monavie disease claims.
I found the following Monavie claims on Digg:
Monavie Cancer Claim 1 and 2
Are these types of claims standard practice with MonaVie?
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What does, "Energy Drink – MonaVie – Acai berry against CANCER?" imply to you?
The person is trying to link MonaVie with fighting cancer and that is MISLEADING and ILLEGAL.
Now Ty, I understand the reasoning behind your post here, but really. Come on.
I've been pretty 'light' with my responses to this point but it seems you're campaigning against Monavie, and this is fine. But what you've said here is very misleading and frankly inappropriate. We're not politicians, are we?
I've yet to find someone who claims Monavie cures cancer in their promotional efforts, because yes – that would be completely illegal. I've heard personal testimony concerning this, however the 'illegal claim' you're referring to is absolutely not illegal nor referring to Monavie.
The University of Florida conducted an independent study of the _acai berry_, and did find it to kill leukemia cancer cells in the lab. I have no doubt you've seen the article:
http://news.ufl.edu/2006/01/12/berries/
Come on bro. No need for a neg campaign. There are better uses of our time, yeah?
Gotta love that question mark, yeah?
Misleading, possibly. Illegal, no. I'm not supporting the way this distributor promotes the product, however you should be aware that this kind of marketing is, well. Not illegal. Not the best way of doing things, and maybe a little dirty. But not illegal.
And it's not uncommon, or even constrained to product promotion. Check out the video:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/41619/
Jon Stewart sums it up about halfway through:
"Yes, FOX has figured out that by simply by putting a question mark at the end of something, you can say F**king anything."
Linking Monavie to fighting cancer with question mark is no different than linking terrorism to the 'liberal media' with a question (again, about halfway through that video). It might be shady marketing – but it's commonplace, often effective, and 100% legal. I've seen similar things done with 'If', as well.
But (if) it still pushes your buttons, and (if) you still insist on bashing less-than-admirable marketing efforts from a few select Monavie distributors, you can find some solace in Davis' law:
http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Laws_1/226.html
Your turn?
After re-reading, I apologize. Wasn't my intention to get personal or aggressive-ish, Ty. It's late 😉
I just read the "Illegal Monavie Disease Claims?" blog someone made and evidently they do not have their facts straight. I contacted Brunswick Laboratories there was not an article they could directly connect me to comparing the three juices mentioned. However, there is an article in the Journal of Agriculture titled "Antioxidant Capacity and Other Bioactivities of the Freeze-Dried Amazonian Palm Berry, Euterpe oleraceae Mart. (Acai)" this article specifically discusses the patent pending process of MonaVie called OptiAcai and Brunswick Laboratories was mentioned as involved with the study. In this study it demonstrated that the OptiAcai process captures the highest ORAC value of any other process to date which is 1027 for the Acai that MonaVie captures. This process is only used by MonaVie. So it can indeed claim to capture the highest ORAC value of Acai. None in Costco or any where else that has Acai can claim that.
Regarding health claims. MonaVie does not claim to treat or cure any disease. However, individuals who have been drinking it are extremely excited about the results they are personally seeing. Those are individual claims not MonaVie's. Those individuals have often stated they documented the benefits they were seeing with MonaVie being the only change to their daily routine. The blend of MonaVie with 19 high antioxidant and phytonutrients fruits is making a difference in a lot of peoples lives. It is fruit people go look at all the research of fruit and their health benefits that scientists have claimed for centuries. MonaVie doesn't have to claim that, the scientists have already done that. MonaVie just makes it convenient and captures the highest ORAC of Acai as proven in the Journal of Agriculture.
Negativity is always closely linked with new discovery and change. The earth is NOT flat but round OMG! That rocked conventional wisdom. As far as acai or Monavie as the packaging of same…and the 'claims' that seem to tweak you, why not focus on what harm you believe it does, if any. Anyone can stop drinking or buying it any time they want. For those who are concerned about finding health benefits, or are fighting reacurring cancer, diabetes, whatever, and are basically getting the runaround by 'conventional medical wisdom'…THEY SHOULD PROBABLY AT LEAST TRY a quality acai product. Negative blog is harmful to those who are striving for health and wellness. Get a life grinch. I am not interested in the wealth hype, but love the change from acai in my diet, because I can experience it. If you want to call it a placebo effect…that is your choice. After all you know everything about everyone and all subjects. How impressive.
Negativity is always closely linked with new discovery and change. The earth is NOT flat but round OMG! That rocked conventional wisdom. As far as acai or Monavie as the packaging of same…and the 'claims' that seem to tweak you, why not focus on what harm you believe it does, if any. Anyone can stop drinking or buying it any time they want. For those who are concerned about finding health benefits, or are fighting reacurring cancer, diabetes, whatever, and are basically getting the runaround by 'conventional medical wisdom'…THEY SHOULD PROBABLY AT LEAST TRY a quality acai product. Negative blog is harmful to those who are striving for health and wellness. Get a life grinch. I am not interested in the wealth hype, but love the change from acai in my diet, because I can experience it. If you want to call it a placebo effect…that is your choice. After all you know everything about everyone and all subjects. How impressive.
Negativity is always closely linked with new discovery and change. The earth is NOT flat but round OMG! That rocked conventional wisdom. As far as acai or Monavie as the packaging of same…and the 'claims' that seem to tweak you, why not focus on what harm you believe it does, if any. Anyone can stop drinking or buying it any time they want. For those who are concerned about finding health benefits, or are fighting reacurring cancer, diabetes, whatever, and are basically getting the runaround by 'conventional medical wisdom'…THEY SHOULD PROBABLY AT LEAST TRY a quality acai product. Negative blog is harmful to those who are striving for health and wellness. Get a life grinch. I am not interested in the wealth hype, but love the change from acai in my diet, because I can experience it. If you want to call it a placebo effect…that is your choice. After all you know everything about everyone and all subjects. How impressive.
Negativity is always closely linked with new discovery and change. The earth is NOT flat but round OMG! That rocked conventional wisdom. As far as acai or Monavie as the packaging of same…and the 'claims' that seem to tweak you, why not focus on what harm you believe it does, if any. Anyone can stop drinking or buying it any time they want. For those who are concerned about finding health benefits, or are fighting reacurring cancer, diabetes, whatever, and are basically getting the runaround by 'conventional medical wisdom'…THEY SHOULD PROBABLY AT LEAST TRY a quality acai product. Negative blog is harmful to those who are striving for health and wellness. Get a life grinch. I am not interested in the wealth hype, but love the change from acai in my diet, because I can experience it. If you want to call it a placebo effect…that is your choice. After all you know everything about everyone and all subjects. How impressive.
sorry about the duplicate posts. For some reason when I went to the site several times it wasn't there.