I was listening to a radio station in New Orleans and the reporter said despite intermittent rain, the Mardi Gras parades will go on. Parades were rained out last year. Most years it's cold as a frogs tail at Mardi Gras time.
Also in New Orleans, there's been controversy about a proposal from the mayor and the N.O.P.D. They want to place an orange rectangular placard on anyone's house that has been called into police that drugs can be found there.

So the public outcry has halted that for now--what if somebody wanted to get you into trouble--all they'd have to do is call you in to the police, and an orange placard would be pasted on your door. Geeze!

Then the regular programming resumed. It was a homeopathic show and a guest was hawking a product called Biovaxin. The guest spoke glibly asd Fast! He never stumbled or stammered. On fast forward he said his product contained acai, gogi, mangosteen, noni, and resveratrol and phytochemicals and increased the oxygen in your blood. He named at least 20 symptoms that could be cured or alleviated by use of his product; here's some I remember.
Mood swing, nervousness, anxiety, tiredness, hot flashes, stress, anti aging, joint pain, bloating, headaches, memory loss--wait! hold up! Memory loss?

If I'd had a credit card in my hand I'd have jumped in and ordered some right there he was so convincing.
Somewhere along there he said every time you eat a meal you should have a b.m. and brought up the use of colon cleanser. Listen folks, I'm a R.N. and though no expert, I do know that Mother Nature has done a perfectly good job since we started walking upright of regulating the intestinal corridor. You don't need colon cleansers-maybe a laxative now and then, maybe.

This guest was followed by a Doctor (PHD) who took a call from a guy who asked what he could do for restless leg syndrome? Quinidine is the only thing that's been proven to help that, but the doctor went round and about and finally told this man he needed to see his doctor and have his gallbladder (??) checked!
He was also selling something that oxygenates the blood, and his product was a miracle worker--it could be used against diabetes, arthritis, cholesterol, pain relief, etc and so on--a virtual cure!
These hucksters sell a lot of products and even may mean well, but you have to take what they say with a dose of skepticism.

susil