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FDA Floats
Hydroxycut Scare to Discredit Yet Another Supplement Company
After tens of millions of doses of
Hydroxycut were taken by consumers, one person died. This, along with
reports of a few dozen liver-related side effects, caused the FDA to
push for an industry-wide recall of virtually all Hydroxycut products.
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The
thinking behind the warning? The risk of side effects is very low, but
the FDA doesn't believe consumers should be exposed to such risks.
Not from a dietary supplement, anyway. When it's from a vaccine or a
pharmaceutical, such risks are deemed "acceptable" by the FDA. Remember
the outcry over the COX-2 inhibitor drug Vioxx and the testimony by Dr.
David Graham of the FDA who calculated the drug killed over 60,000
Americans? That drug was voted "safe" by an FDA panel even after its own
manufacturer voluntarily recalled it from the market!
When it comes to pharmaceuticals, you see, killing 60,000 Americans is
no big deal. But when a dietary supplement is linked to a single death,
that's more than enough for the FDA to spring into action with its spin
machine to destroy the credibility of the dietary supplement in
question.
The same thing happened with ephedra (ma huang), a perfectly safe
Traditional Chinese Medicine that's been safely used for over 5,000
years in China. It's an important ingredient in all sorts of Chinese
Medicine formulas, including anti-viral formulas that cave save lives
during a pandemic. But thanks to the FDA, ephedra is now illegal to sell
or prescribe in the United States, and anyone prescribing it to patients
can be arrested and threatened with being shut down and put out of
business.
Powerful pills + compromised health = bad combo
So why are weight loss pills linked with patient deaths at all? It's
simple: The few people dying from these pills are almost certainly
health-compromised individuals with compromised liver or heart function
who over-dose on the weight loss pills in a misguided, desperate attempt
to drop some pounds.
This is what happened with ephedra: Some pill-popping consumers overdid
the dosage, thinking "more is better," over-stimulating their
cardiovascular system and dying from a heart attack (which was no doubt
imminent in the first place). Shoveling snow in the driveway probably
would have triggered the same event.
In the case of Hydroxycut, the people who showed liver problems (there
were only a few dozen even reported) no doubt suffered from serious
liver problems even before they started taking the weight loss pills.
They almost certainly weren't taking a full complement of protective
herbs, superfoods and nutritional supplements that protect the liver
(such as dandelion and yellow dock, for example). Without a healthy
liver to begin with, the extra dose of caffeine in Hydroxycut likely
pushed them into the zone of liver problems.
It's all so typically American. Everything in America is extreme, it
seems: Reality TV, flavored snacks, sugary breakfast cereals, cosmetic
surgery, money management and of course weight loss. American culture
has no practical familiarity with the phrase, "all things in
moderation," and its people tend to take dieting efforts to the extreme.
After all, what else would you call the "48-Hour Hollywood Diet," which
promises obscene weight loss in just two days drinking the world's most
over-priced fruit juice?
Then again, the Hydroxycut formulation isn't exactly the most
nutritionally-oriented approach to weight loss, either. It's heavy on
the caffeine stimulants side, sort of like Red Bull in a pill
with a few herbal ingredients thrown in to round out the formula.
Personally, I wouldn't touch Hydroxycut -- or any other weight loss
product loaded with stimulants. But neither do I think the death of one
person from taking the product is justification for an industry-wide
recall.
Aspirin and
NSAIDs are
thousands of times more dangerous
Common painkillers like aspirin, by the way, kill
16,500 Americans each year, and the FDA has never made any effort
whatsoever to recall the category of NSAID drugs (which, like Hydroxycut,
don't require a prescription). As explained on Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAID#Adverse_effects)
The widespread use of NSAIDs has meant that the adverse effects of
these relatively safe drugs have become increasingly prevalent. The two
main adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with NSAIDs relate to
gastrointestinal (GI) effects and renal [kidney] effects of the agents.
These effects are dose-dependent, and in many cases severe enough to
pose the risk of ulcer perforation, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and
death, limiting the use of NSAID therapy. An estimated 10-20% of NSAID
patients experience dyspepsia, and NSAID-associated upper
gastrointestinal adverse events are estimated to result in 103,000
hospitalizations and 16,500 deaths per year in the United States,
and represent 43% of drug-related emergency visits. Many of these events
are avoidable; a review of physician visits and prescriptions estimated
that unnecessary prescriptions for NSAIDs were written in 42% of
visits.[6]
Did you get all that? 103,000 emergency hospitalizations! 16,500 dead
Americans a year! And is there a recall pending on these
over-the-counter medications? Of course not. The FDA is too busy chasing
down marketers of diet pills and nutritional supplements to bother with
any serious safety efforts regarding Big Pharma's pills. That's why
anything made by Big Pharma seems to get a free pass with the FDA, while
anything made by somebody else gets subjected to extra scrutiny.
Of course, some critics complain that the FDA doesn't "review" or
"approve" dietary supplements like Hydroxycut and can only enforce
safety guidelines after they're on the market. But that whole argument
assumes the FDA is interested in safety in the first place, which it
isn't. For example, the FDA hasn't bothered to recall or ban aspartame,
MSG, sodium nitrite, artificial food colors that cause hyperactivity in
children, etc. If it was interested in safety, those would be some of
the first things to consider banning (or at least warning people about).
In fact, just a few months ago, the FDA went out of its way to
re-recommend mercury-contaminated fish to expectant mothers -- an
astonishing act that earned it sharp reprisals from EPA scientists who
called the FDA scientists complete morons (paraphrasing).
(http://www.ewg.org/newsclip/Newsweek-Smackdown-EPA-FDA-and-Mercury-in-Fish)
Furthermore, the FDA doesn't review Big Pharma's drug ads at all,
meaning that drug companies can market their highly-dangerous
prescription medications using whatever outrageous claims they can dream
up, with virtually zero FDA oversight.
Be wise about choosing any weight loss product
None of this, of course, means that weight loss
products are good for you. The weight loss industry is, indeed,
populated with a few charlatans -- on both the supplement and
pharmaceutical side of the equation. On the supplement side, the "Stupid
Weight Loss Product of the Year Award" goes to SlimFast, in my
opinion, which is basically a sugar milkshake containing very low-cost
vitamins. The runner-up award goes to Ensure, which is similarly
unimpressive. Amazingly, Americans funnel into pharmacies and grocery
stores and actually buy this stuff, somehow envisioning they're going to
lose lots of body fat and look fit and trim by chugging sugary
milkshakes.
And this gets to the problem with dietary supplements in the USA: The
problem is not merely the products themselves but the consumers
looking for a quick weight loss solution who will try anything out
of desperation. It's the "fix me with a magic bullet" mentality, and it
seems more pronounced in America than anywhere else.
I'd be curious to find out exactly how many pills of Hydroxycut were
being taken by the person who later died. My guess is that the dosage
was outrageously high, beyond an amount any reasonable person would
think of taking (and no doubt far more than the recommended dosage on
the bottle).
You gotta love America: Fix my brain with psych drugs! Pump up my
breasts with silicone! Inject my face with botulism! And let's all lose
weight by killing ourselves with stimulants!
At some point, we have to say that part of the blame for abusing
nutritional supplements rests with the users. When the bottle says to
take two pills and the consumer guzzles down TEN pills, that's a user
problem, not a product problem. The same is true with pharmaceuticals:
When a patient greatly exceeds the prescribed dosage and ends up dying
from the overdose, that's as much the consumer's fault as anybody's.
No magic pills
I'm no supporter of Hydroxycut, but the way. I've
never recommended the product, and I've always thought it was a kind of
gimmicky weight loss pill purchased by mainstream consumers who don't
know much about nutrition or weight loss (sort of the same group that
buys SlimFast). So the loss of Hydroxycut from the marketplace is no big
loss to the health of Americans. But lacking this particular product,
the "instant weight loss" crowd is simply going to gravitate to another
product -- dietary, prescription or otherwise -- and end up in much the
same situation, overdosing on pills out of desperation.
I'd like to make a blunt statement to all the Americans who have been
taking Hydroxycut: There is no magic pill that will counteract all the
milk, cheese, processed meat, sugars, sodas and white flour you might
have been eating! The reason you're fat is because you're eating a
really atrocious diet. Snap out of it! Choose healthy foods for a
change and you don't need Hydroxycut or any other weight loss stimulant
product.
Specifically, virtually everyone who starts juicing loses weight
in a healthy way, with no liver problems. Check out David Rain's
http://www.juicefeasting.com/ or get his audio program on Truth Pub:
http://www.truthpublishing.com/product_p/cd-cat21485.htm
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