A FRIEND showed me a brochure of a “health food” – obviously from a multi-level marketing (MLM) brand – that her entire family, including her two young children, has been consuming and urged me to try it, too.
In the brochure, it is claimed that said product, which is made from fermented wheat extract, boosts our immune system by “1,000 times”, “effectively reduces high cholesterol” levels, “repairs insulin-producing cells”, alleviates gastric ulcer and more. Words like “patented”, “from Japan” and – the most egregious – “clinically proven” were brazenly used.