Interior Design Nutritionals
Sally Zitzer
Has anyone heard of Interior Design Nutritionals (a division
of Nu Skin International, Inc) ? I just bought some vitamin/mineral
supplements called Vitox and Metabotrim made by them.
The reason I'm asking is that my doctor sent me to a nutritionist
to change my diet because I've developed diabetes. The first thing she
did was tell me the vitamin/mineral pills I was buying at the drugstore
were no good because they are compressed under so much pressure. She
said the body doesn't absorb them. So she sold me the Vitox ($41.85)
and the Metabotrim ($26.60). That's a one month supply. The Metabotrim
is to help me lose weight. She also wants me to buy anti-oxidants
called Phytonutrients A La Carte ($23.95).
I think that's too much money to spend on vitamins/minerals each
month and I wonder what kind of profit she is making as a distributor,
since you can't buy them in stores.
Thanks for any information you can give me,
Sally Zitzer
Seattle, WA
PS I'm not going back to that partiular nutritionist.
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Sally Zitzer email: sal...@u.washington.edu
Statistical Package Consulting phone: (206) 543-8515 or (206) 543-7054
Computing and Communications Fax: (206) 543-3909
University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA 98195
Michael DiBartolo
>Has anyone heard of Interior Design Nutritionals (a division
of Nu Skin International, Inc) ? I just bought some vitamin/mineral
supplements called Vitox and Metabotrim made by them.
The reason I'm asking is that my doctor sent me to a nutritionist
to change my diet because I've developed diabetes. The first thing she
did was tell me the vitamin/mineral pills I was buying at the drugstore
were no good because they are compressed under so much pressure. She
said the body doesn't absorb them. So she sold me the Vitox ($41.85)
and the Metabotrim ($26.60). That's a one month supply. The Metabotrim
is to help me lose weight. She also wants me to buy anti-oxidants
called Phytonutrients A La Carte ($23.95).
I think that's too much money to spend on vitamins/minerals each
month and I wonder what kind of profit she is making as a distributor,
since you can't buy them in stores.
Thanks for any information you can give me,
> Being in multi level marketing myself, I don't like to hear stories like this.
Your nutritionist should not of offered you the products she personally markets
as a prescription for your problem. There is a big conflict of interest here.
With most multi-level companies you are not allowed to market your goods or services
from a store front. These might be good products, but the way you were introduced
to them was not proper. As far as what kind of profit she makes as a distributor goes
I don't see a problem with that. You buy things everyday from retail stores and
somebody is making a profit. I just don't agree with the premise under which she sold these products to you.
PS. Don't let this give you a bad impression of multi-level marketing, as with
any other profession there will always be people who don't do the right thing.
Mike D.
Zeda Ass'n [Ralph Burr]
DiBartolo) writes:
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>Sally wrote:
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> The reason I'm asking is that my doctor sent me to a nutritionist
>to change my diet because I've developed diabetes. The first thing
she did was tell me the vitamin/mineral pills I was buying at the
drugstore were no good because they are compressed under so much
pressure. She said the body doesn't absorb them. So she sold me the
Vitox ($41.85) and the Metabotrim ($26.60). That's a one month supply.
The Metabotrim is to help me lose weight. She also wants me to buy
anti-oxidants called Phytonutrients A La Carte ($23.95).
>
>
Mike wrote:
>> Being in multi level marketing myself, I don't like to hear stories
like this. Your nutritionist should not of offered you the products she
personally markets as a prescription for your problem. There is a big
conflict of interest here.
Mike, I'm not sure that I totally agree with you. In principle, yes -
but there are some proprietary compounds on the market which are
patented and in controlled distribution. These are only going to be
available on a direct basis.
SALLY, The most important question is whether you'e getting what you
need! Secondarily comes "Is it too expensive?"
My first question is: "What type of diabetes do you have and how severe
is it?" Type I is insulin dependent - you must take insulin in addition
to what your body makes. Type II occurs if your body MAKES substantial
but cannot absorb and use it cellularly. You may take an "insulin stim-
ulator" orally and change diet, but you do not inject insulin.
I'm not familiar with Vitox and Metabotrim, but the further emphasis on
anti-oxidants puzzles me. Diabetes is a disease of glycosylation, or
sugar-caused protein damage, not oxygenation (free radical) damage.
(Think of it this way - "Free-radical" damage = cancer; sugar damage =
diabetes.)
There is a relatively new, but pretty well vetted, mineral on the
market - chromium, which interacts with insulin to make it more
effective. It comes in a number of forms, chromium picolinate being the
choice of this association. This is particularly effective with type
II, or NIDDM, diabetes because useage is the main problem. To a lesser,
and very individual extent, it will help type I. With either type, you
MUST MONITOR your blood sugar to avoid danger of hypoglycemia!!!!!! The
chromium _can_ have that much of an effect, and it occurs quite rapidly
after ingestion!
Do what you need to, and diabetes need not slow you down. As Spock
says: "Live long and prosper."
Ralph Burr
Zeda Association
Gerald Reid
In article <3s4k63$e...@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, sal...@u.washington.edu (Sally Zitzer) writes:
>
> Has anyone heard of Interior Design Nutritionals (a division
>of Nu Skin International, Inc) ? I just bought some vitamin/mineral
>supplements called Vitox and Metabotrim made by them.
>
>to change my diet because I've developed diabetes. The first thing she
>did was tell me the vitamin/mineral pills I was buying at the drugstore
>were no good because they are compressed under so much pressure. She
>said the body doesn't absorb them. So she sold me the Vitox ($41.85)
>and the Metabotrim ($26.60). That's a one month supply. The Metabotrim
>is to help me lose weight. She also wants me to buy anti-oxidants
>called Phytonutrients A La Carte ($23.95).
>
>month and I wonder what kind of profit she is making as a distributor,
>since you can't buy them in stores.
>
> Thanks for any information you can give me,
>
> Seattle, WA
>
>PS I'm not going back to that partiular nutritionist.
>
>--
>Sally Zitzer email: sal...@u.washington.edu
>Statistical Package Consulting phone: (206) 543-8515 or (206) 543-7054
>Computing and Communications Fax: (206) 543-3909
>University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA 98195
I think someone is making a HUGE profit!! NuSkin has some good products,
but most of their stuff is way overpriced! I'm sure your 'nutritionist'
can give you many scientific reasons that justify the ridiculous price but
I'm willing to bet that many of the particpants on this group could shoot
them down.
Note that I am a believer in vitamins and take supplements regularly. You might
want to try LEF at 1-800-544-4440 or Life Services Supp at 1-800-542-3230
and get their catalogs and compare their multivitamin preparations with
NuSkin. You could probably go to GNC and by TwinLab products at retail and
save a bunch of money. I actually did a comparison for a person I knew who
was a NuSkin rep and she stopped trying to peddle her schlock on me after.
Getting back to questionable profits this women also showed me a videotape
promoting NuSkin with the same type of bs that Amway and others use -- slick
videos showing people in yachts and Mercedes, i.e. quit your day job and
be rich instead. She actually told me "I'll never be truly happy in life
until I'm making 100K a year" -- pretty lofty goals eh?
I would also report this women to your Dr. and any state med boards. As the
previous poster mentioned this is ethically questionable.
Gerry Reid
I speaketh for me only...
M.D. Graves
Gerry is exactly right.
I have studied nutrion since 1970 and have been counseling prople
professionally for more than ten years.
My wife was Nuskin dist. a number of years ago and I found that
their nutritional products, although they contained acceptable
ingredients, were priced somewhere between two and four times
higher than comparable supplements in a proper health food store.
I have also seen that almost EVERYONE who is a distributor for a
network marketing company has a severe case of Tunnel Vision.
As a nutritionist I recommend quality supplements from hundreds
of different sources based on the needs of the individual, not
some monthly volume quota or distributor sign-up goal.
Consequently, I would very carefully reference any
recommendations from someone who represents a network marketing
company against proven science or at least many years of
anecdotal observation.
(By the way, if paul ia-moan reads this, please spare me your
hyper-critical, neurosis driven analysis.)
David
hea...@polaris.net