Fwd: NOTMILK, Colostrum, Emu Oil,

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Some of us have been talking about emu oil and colostrum I believe.

Personally I think it is a good idea to try everything to see if it helps.

That is better than doing nothing. Anyway, this is one person's opinions.

>>Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:49:05 -0000

>>

>>That's what Sweeney Todd called Dr. Pirelli's

>> " Miracle Elixir " in Sondheim's award-winning

>>broadway play about the " demon barber of Fleet Street. "

>>

>>Todd was referring to a phony medicine that

>>promoted remarkable hair growth and other

>>miraculous healing benefits.

>>

>>SNAKE OILS

>>

>>Today (Sunday, March 24) I begin the third of three

>>days at New York city's " New Life Expo, " and I feel

>>as if the show should be called the " New Death Expo. "

>>

>>One female exhibitor is peddling

>>emu oil as the new miracle cure-all.

>>I sadly wonder what these great birds might

>>think of that. Selling emu or ostrich oil is

>>practicing a branch of medicine that is no

>>better than sticking one's head in the sand.

>>

>>Another " dealer " is selling an elixir containing

>>bovine growth hormones. He had a large sign

>>that reads:

>>

>> " LIVE TEN YEARS LONGER. "

>>

>>On Saturday, I could not help myself.

>>

>> " Excuse me, sir. How long has that product

>>been on the market? "

>>

>> " Two years! " He responded with enthusiasm.

>>

>> " Er, then how can you claim that it makes

>>you live ten years longer? "

>>

>>He looked at me as if I was a child,

>>and explained. " Well, scientists

>>did an experiment with fruit flys and they-- "

>>

>>I stopped him in mid-sentence.

>> " I am not a fruit fly. "

>>

>>Nearby was an elderly man looking to be in

>>very ill health. Most exhibitors stand at

>>their booths, but this man was sitting.

>>He wore a large circular Band-Aid on the

>>side of his nose.

>>

>>The man was selling bovine Colostrum.

>>

>>I asked, " What happened to you? "

>>Before he responded, I knew the all-too

>>familiar explanation.

>>

>> " I scraped my nose, " he said.

>>

>> " Oh, my dad has the same thing. So does Ted

>>Kennedy and millions of others. That's

>>basal cell, isn't it? " Basal cell is

>>a type of skin cancer.

>>

>> " Yes. " He responded sadly.

>>

>> " Well, that's cancer. It's obvious that your

>>medicine is not working, isn't it? "

>>

>>As I walked away, not interested in embarrassing

>>him any further, nor hearing his response, he

>>called after me.

>>

>> " I've had this cancer on my nose for

>>thirty years. "

>>

>>For those of you who think that this

>>bovine " snake oil works, " I refer you to a column

>>that I wrote called " Collossal Colostrum Fraud. "

>>

>>http://www.notmilk.com/deb/053099.html

>>

>>It's now time to leave my home for the third

>>day of three exhaustive days of work. I'll be

>>returning home after midnight.

>>

>> Cohen

>>http://www.notmilk.com

>>

>>

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