"C Freak"

[omega minimo]

How bout the TV commercial now that shows the office women gossiping about the coworker who "She loves her C" but "She needs medicine."

"She's a C Freak."

So the "C Freak" is portrayed as a ditzy redhead Flower Child grownup wearing and surrounded by orangey sunshiny colors (get it, orange cuz she's a "C Freak") surrounded by dour judgemental women who know better, until one has the nerve to hand her some of the medicine that's got Vitamin C and an orange package to trick the ditz into taking it.

So the sneering coworkers are fooled into taking Vitamin C in their "medicine" by making fun of the C "hippie chick." Fooled into paying good money for pharmaceuticals instead of taking Vitamin C. :spray:

The truth is, the "C Freak" is the one who doesn't make a big deal out of it, stays healthy all winter unless catching something from those who do nothing to prevent illness and load up on medicine after the fact, after they were contagious, after they spread it to the whole office.

C how that works?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Oh yeah

So funny how many have been brainwashed.

[omega minimo]

2. HIlariou$

:evilgrin:

[Kind of Blue]

3. Uncanny. Always wondered what bugged me

about that commercial. Just figured they were making fun of hippies. Recently I've been walloped by the flu, now a terrible cold that I haven't had in almost 7 years. I'm a big lemon all things citrus fan and realized this season I've used all my lemons for baking and stopped my C intake. Duh! I C how it works :) Good one.

[omega minimo]

4. Love the EmergenC packets. Great preventative too. I do buy those. Don't need Nyquil or whatever....

:hi: Commercial too annoying to remember what they're pushing.

[Shallah Kali]

5. drug companies are tired of loosing customers to preventive care

many times I have been able to nip colds and sinus infections, which used to be chronic, in the bud by taking extra C and a good herb like olive leaf extract. They want to sucker people like me back to only treating the symptoms without treating the source of the problem by adding a dollop of vitamin c. jerks.

[omega minimo]

6. never heard of that one

"olive leaf extract"

With health care costs thru the roof, more folks are looking to traditional remedies and prevention.

[Kind of Blue]

7. Olive leaf extracts?

I use olive oil for just about everything: cooking, lotions I make, and hair conditioner. Just wiki'ed the leaf extracts and a university study found it has "an antioxidant capacity almost double green tea extract and 400% higher than Vitamin C." :wow:
Thanks for pointing it out!

[Shallah Kali]

8. Olives Rule!

:bounce:

I used to sometimes find a nice tea at biglots called Mount of Olives that had herb and black teas all with olive leaves and other herbs that were very tasty. I probably got some nice antioxidents from those :)

[omega minimo]

9. thanks for enlightening us!

:pals:

[Shallah Kali]

10. I am glad to share as so many here have helped me learn new things too!

Some people respond better to different herbs so it is good to know the different options. echinacea works great for my Mother but does not work as well as Olive Leaf Extract does for me. Oregano Oil gives me massive acid reflux which really stinks as it clears out my sinus in under 30 minutes. Fenugreek loosens mucus but using it more than a couple of days makes me ravenous so those with overeating issues need to be cautious. Also it gives some people maple scented BO which is harmless. Thyme works nicely with fenugreek but does not have enough effect on it's own - at least on me.

Here are a few of my favorite herb resources:
Herbs 2000 http://www.herbs2000.com/
MotherNature.com's free Library - love James Duke's books: http://www.mothernature.com/Library/bookshelf/index.cfm
Botanical.com http://www.botanical.com/
Classic Herbals http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/index.html
Susun Weed http://www.susunweed.com/

[Kind of Blue]

11. You know what, Shallah Kalli?

IMHO, you really should have a web site dedicated to all the information at your fingertips. You are a seemingly endless source of information, a true resource! Thanks for the sites :hug: I am so getting the olive leaf extract this weekend.

[Shallah Kali]

13. It is the Google Fu plus a few more links

I was born with it so I can't take credit for it, only vow to use it wisely and for the highest good of all

;)

Prescription for Nutritional Healing http://books.google.com/books?id=2s_q2y_J3rwC&dq=editions:ISBN1583332367

Prescription for Herbal Healing http://books.google.com/books?id=XREhlTzruXwC&dq=editions:ISBN0895298694&as_brr=3

Google Book Search - very handy! Remember if searching for a phrase such as "Olive leaf" use quotes! if you want to find it near another word such as "olive leaf" +sinus use the + directly before the word to find it *near* the first word or phrase or else it may be far apart on the page and connected to something unrelated to the first term.

http://books.google.com

oh one more thing - you may find as I did that you do not need the maximum dose of Olive Leaf Extract. Some herbs I need the top dose but more often, especially when starting something new or taking it to nip an incipent cold in the bud, a half dose is plenty. I once tried Yarrow full dose to help with a *really* bad moontime and stopped the cycle about 24 hrs into it!

[OneGrassRoot]

15. Awesomeness....

I also appreciate the Artesian well of information that you ARE. :)


:hug:

[omega minimo]

19. a well of wellness.........

[SheilaT]

12. I am also offended at the

way that ad portrays the "C freak".

[omega minimo]

14. yup, feeding the stereotypes to sell the product.

:hi:

[SheilaT]

16. For what it's worth,

I am not myself convinced that Vitamin C is the magic cure-all that some folks believe. Nonetheless, I don't think that someone who strongly believes that is necessarily a kook of any kind. Heck, I'm sure I have beliefs that others think are strange. I work very hard on not judging others.

[Kind of Blue]

17. Exactly! I Know I have beliefs that others think are

strange and had to learn the hard way to keep my mouth shut at work. Funny, how the topic has gone from the pharmaceutical industry to what's really at the core, judgment of other people's belief and manipulating it. Very subtle and easy use of the hippie type girl to drive it home. Thanks for pointing that out.

[omega minimo]

18. plus C is preventative and the office "C Freak" is the one dodging all the crap other people catch

The commercial could show the sunny "ditz" offering C packets BEFORE illness spreads through the office. :hi:


"...judgment of other people's belief and manipulating it." Where have I heard that before..........? :eyes:



Those darn "witches" and "Gypsies" with their potions and skills, herb gardens and private property, they were just ASKIN ta get burnt!! For 3 centuries!!

What did they EXPECT?