Britney spears many consumers say theyre happy to pay up to 50. 00 a month for t. V. Tuxes which came to boost immunity and reduce waste but many socalled slimming teas are packed with laxatives and directs and can cause diarrhea and vomiting Health Officials warn that its easy to drink more than recommended increasing the risk of serious damage to the heart liver and colon activity related to meal is a leading the charge against detox ts she recently denounced model amber rose for promoting a pregnancy version of flat tummy t. V. Us politicians have also chimed in with senator which implement al urging regulation on both the sale and promotion of detox to quote protect consumers from harm and our Community Also has a lot to say on this topic heres one person who urges caution with the socalled detox teas to look. The problem with tax to use the auction cute Nutritional Supplements that are and tested and regulated i spoke to my nutritionist who works with eating disorder. And she said that. John do even meaning. The bottom line stay away from stuff. Were joined from madison connecticut by Bonnie Patton she is the executive director of truth in advertising a nonprofit media watchdog. Live is the founder of ms as wonder teen thats a u. K. Based herbal tea company in london and Stephanie Mendell is a holistic nutrition consultant she joins us from new york hello everybody its good to see you i was trying to find out what was actually in some of these teens to work out how they would work so im looking looking at this one here our mission on sat were here to get you back to looking good and feeling that theyre already there for me our purpose to help you live happy a Healthy Lifestyle and we are blenders at heart meaning we love mixing tea herbs and Natural Ingredients i was looking for the ingredients of the tea i can really find a greedy its and then how does booty word fantastic name no fancy words or jargon just Natural Health gets that deliver results stephanie if you were going to examine what it is that these teas do now i would i said so many different ones that are out there but the idea of drinking a drink from a nutritionists consultants point of view what does that do to your insights thats positive. Thats positive yeah so i mean tea has been around for a long time thousands of years and a lot of herbs used in tea have various and. You know we can talk more about that but certainly you know theres a wide range of different herbs used in these kinds of teas and as that woman was saying there are things like laxatives and dire attics and things that have very real. Facts on the body so you know in terms of positive benefits you know herbs like ginger we know its into inflammatory there are there can be good things in these 2. So i want to show this week from Ashley Lauren a member of our community actually says i want to flat stomach like the celebrities plus t. V. Is mostly known to be healthy i would never want to try this way strainers that some celebrities use moving a rib is not my cup of tea itself however comes from the ground i guess you will shock us on monday meeting today and. So is stephanie when she says you will shock us shes of course talking about some of the things that people dont know are in their cup of tea especially when you think comes from the ground and tea is all natural what is she talking about there. Yeah so again i think like anything which nutrition theres a bit more nuance to it than is friendly to marketing. But certainly you know the laxative taping gradients like santa that are in some of these teas are you know they stimulate the muscles in the body to alabama to be frank right off the bat. And you know short term use in someone whos generally healthy of mind and body. May not be a problem very short term but it should be. Monitor and certainly anyone with any sort of just issue in a whole range of issues should not use Something Like senna and nobody should be using it long term meaning more than a couple of weeks at most i mean there are of course exceptions to that and that comes down to individual basis and should be discussed with a trained practitioner show i see needs and nodding their knees and makes knees as one of the team on the Instagram Account of nisa these are one of the things that you say about your t. Is that there are no laxatives in this team. No i do not use any luxa to any of my teams and this is a promise i make to myself as a consumer and to my. Customers who value customers to me so ive been making tea for near about. A year and a half and a little bit more know and the marketing through to the u. K. And marie shows where i come from so what i did to ease i found this story of my own so when i started my babies and i started trying to do is wait i couldnt and i started to use these products so effectively had laxative. It kind of really exacerbated it to my i. B. S. And it caused me a lot of you. Which in turn made me go and find my own. And i looked into the different that im using and i am very proud to see is that i am one of the few who do not use any luck that he and i have so many good reviews from customers but also i am very transparent in all my ingredients i know you were saying earlier you wanted to find ingredients on the website but if you go on my website you will literally find words ingredients and i for losing you get a guide to every ingredient in order the person to do is use yes i do use my diary which is the underlined and bud of crude but completely. And is completely does properly and i also have a very good to destruction was a packet i also do not believe that this is the only thing thats going to cause your weight loss what i do believe and what i do promote by my instagram my social media my face and everybody who meets me wherever i go i see its a t. Its a head of the thing and its also being able to control what we use the t. V. For is to help you and also as a tease that are stronger i have these that you cannot repeat these are to days of course because this is not a nice as one ditty ad but i do appreciate your. Way its almost over impossible to avoid it are ok to take a pause for a moment. Just that there was so many of these ts out there they are detox teeth assuming teas and dieting teas and health days and who knows which ones work and which ones dont work but from an advertising point of view of truth in advertising point of view this is something you have looked into how much can you advice the consumers about which ones to go for because they all ways have beautiful women as people as the advertisers are out there they all seem to be wearing bikinis and have amazing abs of flat stomach some before and after and before psych approach and after sucked in and already knows who knows whats true and what vic. It is very hard to know and it also is detox its got an ambiguity to it what it may mean to one person it may not mean to another person and i agree youre seeing a lot of these different ts on social media instagram in particular with women who dont look like they need them at all here in the United States one of things the law says is that if youre going to endorse a product you have to be a user of the product and that if there are other factors that are causing you to have your 6 pack abs that you should be disclosing that is the consumer so that they are starting to get information about how that influencer went about getting that incredible black tummy another issue is you need to tell consumers that what theyre viewing a lot of times is an ad that these influencers are getting paid to do it or theyre getting free product because if we dont know its in that then we might think that this is an organic endorsement by someone that we at my or that we want to look like or attain or sort of lifestyle so there are a number of issues that that can be raised and i think on the ingredients level consumers absolutely want to know what theyre drinking and putting into their bodies and so if these Health Claims are fitness claims are being made then i think it is incumbent upon these companies and marketers and influencers to let consumers know what is causing this fat flat belly or how or are they operating busy you know all these different ingredients to have these Health Effects on us so i hear youre saying there and i want to play a video comment that we got from a gastroenterologist in chicago this is dr Jonathan Foster and heres his view on these socalled slimming teas. I. You know maybe the Research Firms are hoping that while you read. It however should be. Let me see may actually be read. By right. Here with me. And proved by. Her she was comfortable with the primaries. So the active ingredient including laxatives and ironic snide i wonder if audiences know that we got this comment from someone on youtube talking to us live they write cinna the. Ingredient that you mentioned their earlier stuff any sin has never done anything for me but give me all full stomach cramps and really irritated my i. B. S. So talking about the medical aspect there was a video comment from the doctor but bonnie talked to us about where we might see this in an add on instagram because of course on television you see it at the end you hear it very fast talking about all of the things that might be side effects to a drug or to a medicine where with we see things like this well here in the states the law really says that you need to identify an ad as an ad in a clear and can click us manner so hash tag add is one way to do it at the very beginning of an ad but anything that immediately lets us know that what were looking at is some sort of paid indorsement or that they got this for free is incredibly important so we shouldnt have to search for that information and then any. Information that is really material to our wanting to purchase the product should really be disclosed there and i think you know the problem is not only should they be touting the benefits of these supposed to detox teas but they should also be letting consumers know about the risks so that theres a balance in that marketing material just as you have to do for other drugs or over the counter drugs laxatives i mean what we have here really is a really great polishing and rebranding of laxatives i dont think if we had kim carr dashi and you know touting her laxative it would probably sell as much as when she gets on there promoting flat tummy tea or 50 or what have you i want to show you yet go ahead stephanie. Oh no i think those are great points and yeah you know i think theres just a lot more that people need to be aware of like for instance ahead. You know not in need to take a look at that one but in some of them i have seen there are things like eat and people need to be aware that its an obvious day or attic and. And just being that i think just some sense of the potential downsides to these or at least the potential effects would hopefully prevent someone with Something Like i. B. S. From trying this without consulting their practitioner 1st let me just play this to you this is jamil jamil who is an act she was a broken conference in los angeles in february and she got quite angry about the idea of these detox teens being promoted by celebrities with a lack of responsibility look what she had to say. We people look up to us if you accept money to promote a product and therefore you are telling someone that if you want to be like me youre going to dress like me if you want to drink what i drink and you are telling them to be like you to emulate you you have a responsibility to the consumer to make sure that youre not selling them a toxic substance or toxic rhetoric what are not granted if youve got thousands of followers and his followers are young and you have a platform use it responsibly well just go to hell where you belong nice i mean your teen is out there in a market where there are sexy models there influencers theyre all promoting different teas and you were in the middle of all of that how did you decide that you were going to go ahead with your marketing strategy. I dont think. Marketing strategy which in using women. Using force marketing what i do use my customers. My customers experience but i also do not believe that. Should be promoting some things that i do want you to 1st of all me and my family. But also. The product comes with all sorts of different and as i was seeing you know it comes with the bent you know the benefits and side the person possible side effect of the ties it on instagram and i also informs the clients of for example people who are Breast Feeding people who are pregnant cannot be having cities there are a couple asians and they can have that thats different but the thing is what you have to think is as a as a cell here as a as a person making 60 my. My main responsibility is i would my customers i have to give them a product that they can use in good face and not your fictive body and if it doesnt work was it wouldnt be selling it to them and i think this is what everybody should do i do not use any kind of. Influences or anybody like these anyone who i used to promote my tease completely gives honest reviews and also proves that its from their lives and to tease that its working and going to the gym which i can do as well so its not just about its a load of different issues and i think this is what they dont promote on social media when you see kim k. Putting on the as a t. Kim k. Doesnt say oh my god i have this amazing cher oh my god i have this personal trainer you know i dont have a i make my own soup and sometimes it doesnt taste nice you know what i mean is i would be. Thats the issue with social media right we have all these influencer who are only showing us the positives of their lives right were not seeing a lot of negatives and i think the issue here is that there are a multitude of influencers promoting these detox ts on things like instagram theyre not disclosing busy that their ads so theyre bringing down sort of the Critical Thinking that many consumers would do theyre not telling about their risks which is another issue. Theyre not telling about all the things they do in their life to obtain the figure that they have and so that its completely deceptive and misleading and the problem is that because social media skews young youre getting a lot of kids and young adults that are going to try these really laxatives or you know drugs that they really need to be cautious about and so i mean i think theres more than a 1000000 hashtags associated with the term detox ts on instagram so not only are consumers seeing these ads but theyre also engaging on social media about it you know putting up their own before and after pictures and so i think there are you know is a real issue here about how do we. Engage in responsible marketing so that there isnt harm to consumers and i think thats a great you know issue that needs to be addressed and when we talk about before and after pictures i want to share one from ms as wonder t. This is your Instagram Account there and you can see the caption is my own weight loss journey green was july 2016 blue was april 27th human oranges april 28th teen my personal battle to lose weight so you see pictures like that of course your account is not the only one we got this. To hear from abdul serif who says these teas are really funny and adds how could a common t. V. Reduce 50 kilograms of pot belly and some men that dont like jimmy keep dreaming talk to us about what you know and how you learned it. When it comes to being able to have a balanced diet weight loss regimen and use those before and after pictures to get the effects you want and the after. So for me my husband the one who kind of push me towards. Taking care of my host is the its very important to him hes a very. And hes been trying to help me. To maintain my balance so what i do is i replace food like for example replace of rice. From roast akinola and still have my. List or an order pretty or in a used roads a vegetable to bulk up my plate. And this is what i do and also what the tea has done for me i had a big i was literally eating like a men but what did not make me is that in these plots and i can manage having a healthy appetite. I get back all the hour im going to agree with that but what what. What i what i was what im seeing what my t. Has it has helped me reduce bloating and it has helped me keep me food but then the reality of it. If it helps you green tea has has been if it is known worldwide but obviously you shouldnt be abusing it so is the one thing that people need to know you cannot you cant abuse something and youve made that point really really well its not theres no magic bullet here theres no Magic Company thats going to do it but money i want to show our audience something tina dot org so youre. Organization as she investigated and looked into this was the flat tummy tea and the ads that was appeared on instagram a couple of years ago with a british reality star and she says nothings going to get you flat the same as well and this is apparently before and this is apparently as i think shes just sucking it in but thats just been said in a co but you pointed out that theres no Scientific Evidence anything in this tea will give you a flat stomach all we now look at legislation regulation or if people with that gullible go for it oh no i mean i would never take the position that you know consumers are gullible when it comes to these things i mean a picture is worth a 1000000 words right so you see this happen the problem is that if a company t. Company is going to make a claim this tea will flatten your stomach this tea will melt away the fat pounds whatever it has to say they have to be able to back that up they cant just make that and so the problem is with a lot of these teas that theyre making Health Claims or diet claims that they have no Scientific Evidence to back up and thats a huge issue and that means that theyre making deceptive claims that are just not permitted in most countries under the law so you know what we want is truthful advertising were not saying that you cant promote the product but if youre going to promote a product and youre going to use it with Health Claims then youve got to have a backup for. It here your point there and i want to share this from someone on twitter who says we look up to celebrities and we want to be like them but their lifestyles are not easy to reach for the everyday man i can afford a trainer a chef a stylist a Plastic Surgeon so if the t. V. Is cheaper than the above then maybe a short cut to so stephanie in the closing minute of the show here would you like to see regulation to help people like this person on twitter. Of course i think it would be helpful whatevers going to be helpful to give People Perspective that its not either or you know its not just the t. V. News or youve got the celebrity lifestyle and all that support around you i mean there are a lot of things that people can do or around diet and lifestyle that can make a big difference and yes t. Can provide some benefits that support the body toward certain goals but it needs to work for the person and that can come down to the really individual level of so the more education and the more. The more information out there the better about how these teams can work complete new agreements that its right i mean unfortunately the companies they understand this right you can afford the chef but you cant afford the t. V. And thats what theyre banking on over a incredibly expensive like the most expensive cuppa tea ive seen for a long time been a nice stephanie thank you so much for your input for helping us understand the socalled detox tease and the dangers and the things that we should be aware as consume less efficient you joining us from the stream today and you can i will see you next time thanks for watching everybody. Recruited to win a war exploited to on the battlefield the call the new regime placed in different value an effort from washington and their peers and then abandoned for a lifetime we should be ashamed for producing for for our country all the things you offer to people in power investigates the plight of imperial britons african troops begin now the forgotten heroes of empire on aljazeera. 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