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MonaVie vs. an Apple
You might have seen MonaVie and an Apple compared before (also done here):
As we know one day’s worth (4oz.) of MonaVie costs between $3.20 (distributor price of $20/25oz. bottle) and $7.20 (retail price of $45/25oz. bottle). A single Red Delicious apple costs about $0.75.
The 4oz. of MonaVie has a ORAC of 2,698 umoles [...] -
MonaVie is the Next Napster?
MonaVie and Napster seem to have a lot in common
Here’s the Napster case description directly from Wikipedia:The music industry made the following claims against Napster:
(1) That its users were directly infringing the plaintiff’s copyright;
(2) That Napster was liable for contributory infringement of the plaintiff’s copyright; and
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MonaVie, FTC Guidelines, and Distributor Testimonies
MonaVie’s Media Center is informing people about new FTC guidelines effective Dec. 1st, 2009. That lead them to release these 4 tips (well they released 5, but the 5th one isn’t very important):
Truthful and Typical
MonaVie says:
“MonaVie distributors who provide testimonials online AND offline must be truthful AND be subject to typical results… testimonials about [...] -
MonaVie Knows Their Juice Can’t Treat Medical Conditions
Having just established that MonaVie does not treat medical conditions, it’s worth noting that MonaVie, the company, implicitly agrees that their juice can’t treat medical conditions.
Let’s imagine for a minute that MonaVie can treat a medical condition or disease. What a medical breakthrough that would be! Fruit hasn’t been shown to [...] -
MonaVie and the Placebo Effect
There are times where people will give a testimony that MonaVie helped them with [medical condition X]. I assert that it is really impossible to tell if MonaVie did that for the individual. If you are being open-minded about MonaVie, you know that other explanations are possible. Perhaps a change in weather [...]
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MonaVie Does Not Treat Medical Conditions
Every MonaVie distributor will agree… MonaVie is just fruit. With that being the case it’s worth looking at what the benefits of fruit are. To get to the point, let’s examine what Wikipedia says about the nutritional value of fruit:
Fruits are generally high in fiber, water and vitamin C. Fruits also contain various [...] -
MonaVie Medical Testimonies are Pointless
There are been a lot of comments here, but a lot of them are from individual people claiming that MonaVie solved some kind of medical condition. I don’t understand why these people would waste their time. Any intelligent person would realize that MonaVie medical testimonies are pointless. Here’s why:
MonaVie does not treat [...]
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MonaVie is Embarrassed by Their Income Disclosure Statement?
The Fraud Files found that MonaVie has been editing their own Wikipedia page. As Fraud Files points out that’s a conflict of interest. However, the really interesting information is how MonaVie is editing the information about their company.
This edit removed the company’s Income Disclosure Statement. What possible reason would they [...] -
Orrin Woodward and TEAM’s Trunks of Tools
As Candace pointed on out on my other website, Lazy Man and Money, Orrin Woodward is selling a set of MonaVie sales tools for the enormous price of $1000. A lot of distributors have told me that getting into the MonaVie business is cheap… then they turn around and tell you to buy this [...]
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Men’s Journal Proves MonaVie Lacks Nutrition
MonaVie touts it’s 19 different fruits and it’s star ingredient, the acai berry, every chance it gets. Is one to assume that makes for a super-juice? MonaVie would have you think so. However, rather than take MonaVie’s highly biased word for it, why not have an independent 3rd party test it? [...]