Buy this drug that doesn't "diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease"!

Lately, I've been seeing a commercial touting the wonderfulness of Ocuvite, an "eye care" product. I quote "eye care" because after all the hoopla about the "benefits" of the product, the company issues this disclaimer:

The statements above have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Then WTF should one be taking this stuff? Especially if it's not intended to, well, basically do anything? It's bad enough that drug companies will manipulate tests to get the FDA to approve a drug with a potential worth of billions or promote a product for uses not approved by the FDA, but we're also supposed to take the word of a giant, super profiteering mega-drug corporation that this is GOOD FOR YOU?

In addition to Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Zinc, Copper, Lutein and Zeaxanthin (whatever the heck L and Z are), this magic pill contains Lactose monohydrate, gelatin, Crospovidone, magnesium stearate, titanium dioxide(!), silicone dioxide, yellow #6 and Blue #2!  And yet, this drug will not "diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease." How many reading this post actually know how half of these ingredients affect the human body?

Does one really want to put this into one's body on the say so of a drug company whose only concern is to make a profit? Believe me, they're not looking out for our interests. Like they really care about us, right?

Besides, we all got along without this "miracle" drug before its production, didn't we? These pharmaceuticals  are trying desperately to find the most obscure maladies to the point of creating new ones in order to whip up "curative" or ":relief" drugs to increase their profits. My favorite malady over the years has been "Restless Leg Syndrome." I love it!   

And you gotta love the models in the commercial are blue-eyed. You just know the advertising agency for the pharmaceutical had different commercials with models having different eye colors, and the focus groups they showed the differing spots to indicated blue as the most positive. I don't know this at all, but I bet when they move into the Asian market (if they haven't already), you won't see a blue eye in the commercial.


Of course, this also goes along with the fact that only the United States and New Zealand allow Direct to Consumer advertising. Don't you just love the pretty pictures and gentle music on the commercials as they tell you the drug may KILL YOU and other horrible side effects that "may occur"? And the drug companies make billions.We are truly a nation of idiots...