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My New Doctors Orders Diet Site And Guide

by Ricky Allen
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Hi Warriors

First for the Mods there is no sales page link for my new Diet site here as it is not up and running yet there is just one picture on the site.

I am hoping to work with another Warrior and a Doctor for my latest journey into the weight loss niche.

I already got this domain name. Doctors Orders Diet as I intend to call the neww guide when completed The Doctors Orders Diet.

My question is a simple one: do you think this is a good title for a diet?


Ricky Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Ricky Allen View Post

    My question is a simple one: do you think this is a good title for a diet?
    For myself, rightly or wrongly, it's one I wouldn't be using without advice from an internet lawyer familiar not only with FTC regulations but with their policies, procedures and practices as well. I'd be very nervous indeed of running into a legal/regulatory problem (unless perhaps the site were owned and compiled by people with the letters MD after their name and licensed to practice medicine). Basically, I think it's an attempt at a "deceptive imprimatur". I'm sure you don't intend it that way and are not trying to fool anyone, but for myself, I probably wouldn't risk it. Sorry.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ricky Allen
      Hi Alexa

      No problem. Thanks for your comments.

      I understand what you are saying but for me the fact that a doctor will be directly involved (I hope so anyway) plus various disclaimers I hope it will be okay.

      I am of course interested to see what others think too of course.

      Ricky
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Doud
    I agree talk to a lawyer and get a doctor involved as a JV. I would not do ti without a doctor as my partner in it and a lawyer telling me he thought it was ok.
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  • Profile picture of the author StevenJones
    I can't see the harm in it? You should disclose stuff in your disclaimer obviously.

    Further more, the word doctor can be used freely. Titles such as MD or PhD can't be used unless you or your JV partner has attained that status.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by StevenJones View Post

      the word doctor can be used freely.
      I'm in one health niche, and my lawyer says exactly the opposite, Steven.

      Especially in these days of enhanced potential for adverse FTC interest in websites doing/saying anything that might be interpreted as "medical advice". One has to be particularly, specifically careful about using the word "doctor".
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  • Profile picture of the author StevenJones
    Okay thanks for putting that out there Alexa, let me check this out. I was told by relatives, that have attained this title, that people can use the word doctor accordingly. But they can't use the title PhD or MD if they aren't.

    That said I will ask a friend of mine, which is law student, to clarify.

    But I am almost certain that the domain Doctors Orders Diet can be used. As it's not claiming to have a title in a proffesion in any way. I personally don't see the harm.

    Are there doctors that did their study on nutrition? Are their educations, that will help you attain Docter In Nutrition or something similar? If so, that that is the where the OP should verify the legal issue.

    I hope to get back to you all shortly with a more educated answer.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by StevenJones View Post

      I was told by relatives, that have attained this title, that people can use the word doctor accordingly. But they can't use the title PhD or MD if they aren't.
      I think this is right.

      But even if all that's so, there could still perhaps be potential problems from using the word "doctor's" in a url if the site isn't written/owned by any sort of doctor at all, which is what we're actually discussing, I think? It might just not be "accordingly", you know?

      Originally Posted by StevenJones View Post

      I hope to get back to you all shortly with a more educated answer.
      From a law student friend in Holland? Please excuse the observation (and take no offense from it!) that I'll still prefer my practising internet lawyer's opinion. There are some qualification and experience requirements for lawyers, as well as for doctors. I don't mean it rudely at all, I promise, but it may actually signify something that the person so sweepingly asserting that "the word doctor can be used freely" is the one getting his advice from a student. :p
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      • Profile picture of the author StevenJones
        From a law student friend in Holland? Please excuse the observation (and take no offense from it!)
        Non taken Alexa! However, this dude studies international law, which applies to everywhere, whether it's Europe, the States, or the United Kingdom. And he has a direct line with the teaching kind at his university Anyway, I dropped the question on his wall on Facebook, but I don't expect to get quick answer.

        But even if all that's so, there could still perhaps be potential problems from using the word "doctor's" in a url if the site isn't written/owned by any sort of doctor at all, which is what we're actually discussing, I think? It might just not be "accordingly", you know?
        My beautiful Alexa, when we speak of a potential the harm isn't their yet, right? And let's face it, the domain is great when it comes to get some attention from the general public, or for people that search on good diets to say the least. The OP basically needs to disclose stuff like assumptions made by people that come to the website in his disclaimer, and all would be well, correct me if I am wrong!
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  • Profile picture of the author rooze
    I think the name is OK, but as Alexa says, be careful with the texts on your web pages.

    To give you the benefit of the doubt, you haven't actually said that you plan on selling dietary supplements in your niche, you could for all I know just be selling an eBook, which comes under far less scrutiny than if you're promoting products.

    I note also that you're in the UK and it's probably not quite as bad there as it is here in the USA. In the USA you can use the standard FDA disclaimer "these products are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure a disease...blah blah" and you can utilize what's called a 'structured function claim', which is like saying "this MAY help" instead of saying "this WILL help", but it runs much, much deeper than that.
    Having a doctor endorsement is very different than having a doctor on staff, or as a director.
    Also, even a doctor is not above the FDA, s/he can endorse a product based on its potential benefit, which carries weight with the reader, but s/he still cannot make claims about health benefits that are not supported by clinical research.

    It's a friggen' minefield so watch where you step.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ricky Allen
      Hi folks

      Thanks for all your useful comments so far.

      To clarify a few points.

      I will not use this domain name unless I do have a doctor on board.

      As regards the product I will be selling for this I am thinking Video or Audio. Maybe me interviewing the Doctor?

      And of course a written guide to go with the Video/Audio.

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