Health Clinics’ Ads. Not Breach Of Act
(New Zealand Press Association*
WELLINGTON, June 7
A claim to reduce the size or weight of the human body was not a medical advertisement, the Minister of Health (Mr McKay) said in Parliament today.
Dr. A. M. Finlay (Opp., Waitakere) had asked the Minister if he would investigate the propriety of the claims of some health clinics, such as “15 inches reduction
in 35 minutes” and “39 inches and 4| stone lost in eight weeks."
Mr McKay said the Department of Health had examined some advertisements with a view to action for breaches of the Medical Advertisements Act.
However, there were difficulties in using this act and regulations. Mr McKay said. It must be established that the advertisement related toj an ailment or defect, or to the] nutrition or structure of the human body. “Robustness of figure may be unfashionable but it is not necessarily unhealthy, except perhaps when it is grossly excessive,” said the Minister. “A claim to reduce the I size or weight of the human body is not, in itself, a medical advertisement.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31080, 8 June 1966, Page 3
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