Re-told based on my wife’s account on her recent experience …
If you ever go to Lintas Plaza, there is this new so-called ‘restaurant’ selling so-called ‘healthy drinks'. Base on her description of the location, it should be located along Lorong Lintas Plaza 3, the block opposite Salim 2 and Restoran Sempelang. My wife and her friend saw this ‘new’ ‘restaurant’ and according to her a lot of people patronize it. Normally, if a restaurant has a lot of customers, usually the food is good.
So they decided to go in try. They found out that this restaurant is offering healthy/ diet drinks. According to my wife, it is a powder mixed with a variety of flavours to choose – chocolate, orange,etc. And they were offered a ‘promotion’ package at RM12 for 3-days i.e. they will go there every morning to drink the so-called diet drink for breakfast for three consecutive days. They were told that the will lose weight in 3-days time and were asked to have their weight taken. According to the ‘promoter’, the ‘health drink’ is full of vitamins etc blab bla bla.
So, they took the 3-days promotion programme and the last drink is yesterday. So after the drink, they were asked to be weighted again. Funnily enough, the shop ‘lost’ their record. But in actual fact, my wife and her friend took their record back as according to her, the people there was very busy attending to other customers back then that the have forgotten to keep the record in their file!! They quietly took it as they think that the shop may change their record!! Ha ha ha and my wife told me that they actually didn’t lose weight!! And you know what?.. they were asked to take another 10-days ‘promotion package’!!!
So, after the last weighting.. the promoter then started to comment on my wife’s and her friend’s ‘health problems’. The promoter told my wife that her system is not good, there are lots of problems, lots of cholesterol blab la bla (you can imagine the promoter blabbing about your health conditions as though she is your personal doctor). For you info, my wife is bit overweight, so that is maybe one point the promoter tried to exploit. I asked my wife: how did she know your overall health conditions by just checking on your weight? This is not checking, I told her. This is a ‘prediction’ of your health!!!
Secondly, according to wife, this particular promoter told her that the health drink can make her skin beautiful as it is full of 100% vitamins!!! But my wife observed that this particular promoter didn’t have a ‘good’ skin condition like there are red spots all over her body!! (hah!!! Is this what you call as a good advertisement? They should have used a more proper promoter!!)
Now, the most intriguing of all – since they do not want to take the 10-days programme, the promoter offered a health tea – which she claimed can ‘wash your body from all the ‘kotoran’ bla blab bla… at first the promoter talked to my wife’s friend in Chinese. (but my wife did understand some of the conversations and later told by her friend). My wife’s friend end up buying the tea at RM4 and a 2L bottle to prepare the tea at RM20!!! (total RM24!!). but my wife is smart, she did not fall for it. So again I asked my wife these two questions :-
- Are they actually selling the so-called ‘health drink’ or the bottles? (the bottle is more expensive than the tea itself!! My wife did asked her friend later why she bought the bottle as she can always use the soft drink bottles or just buy a cheaper one… she couldn’t advice her as they were talking in Chinese, mind you)
- Why didn’t the shop offer to sell the so-called ‘health drink’ to them instead of the ‘health tea’ since that is the thing they promoted initially? According to my wife, they mixed the powder with fruit juices etc. so after the ‘health tea’ issue, I believe the powder only costs, say RM1 and the juices they mixed it with cost RM3, hence the RM4 per glass!!
This ‘business’ seems to be questionable, at least to me. I don’t want to comment about whether the health drink is really a health drink as claimed by them or the products that they are selling there.. but just this – be warned and do not be duped into buying things you do not need i.e. the 2L bottle that cost RM20 and also, we must check whatever health products offered before consuming or buying it.
Let us be a more knowledgeable and smart consumer.. IMHO.
I hope this can be a good information to all..
5 comments:
there are so many so called health drinks these days..but that juice they mix the powder with can be packed full of sugar! I personally would stay away if it wasn't a reputable brand..and ya know what, actually just drinking plain water is the best way to lose weight!
Hmm. Let ask the Health Department to pay them a visit then? They would not mind mingling with their own kind now would they??
Honestly.. I fell for this roadside medical wonder long ago - the rendam kaki in electrocuted water, which supposed to suck 'bad' juices from the body. 45gringgos gone. The guy even gave a diagnose on my ailments after seeing what has been taken out - supposedly gooey fat etc.. But here's the catch.. he stared long winding conversation during the process asking medical related questions and surely by the end he would've gathered some info on what to say.... even recommend me to come again.
Long after the whole craze.. I saw the guy again.. manning a Newspaper kiosk in Kompleks Karamunsing..
Congratulations to Hombi's wife for being smart.
I am personally always sceptical to such kind of products. Too sceptical I guess. Especially the one that can clear your body from toxin, whether by consuming herbs what so ever or using machine like Hawk said. What a bunch of BS.
Just eat a well-balanced diet. We don't need "healthy drinks" packed with vitamins (but diluted with water)IF WE EAT REAL FRUITS.
agree with Linachu - i've heard or read somewhere that plain water is the best way to lose weight.
though some briliant people nowadays go house to house to sell supposedly 'water cleansing machine' to make our water pure and free of contaminants. they will 'test' your tap water and woolahhh... your water turns to some undrinkable water.. but i never encountered such people, only hear from other people
Hawk & Lab papa - i've seen that too a few years back. i didn't tried it but just witness a few people do it.. you wouldn't like to see the end result but a fella next to me whispered that perhaps they have included some kind of chemical in the water that will change colour etc. never seen that kind of machine again - perhaps tidak laku and one of them already changed professiona s Hawk said.. haha
Aza - once i've tried to reason with a fella that eating real fruits is the best way to get vitamins.. but tha t fella don't want to 'kalah' - says that we need to eat like 100 apples or oranges to get 100% vitamins.. as i am not in the mood, i just left him.. otherwise if some other days, i would have 'argue' with him haha.. garbage truck again.. oh nooo..
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