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The editors of Consumer Reports (CR), - it seems - is in the pocket of
the drug industry. The propaganda continues!!!
The May issue of CR is loaded with what, on the face of it, seems to be
reasonably good advice. Yet is nothing more than information that is way
off the mark in several important details that everyone should be
cognizant of.
The headline blares off the newstand: "Dangerous Supplements: 6 Could
Cause Cancer, Kidney Failure, Liver Disease or Death."
Sounds menacing doesn't it? The lead article inside gets things underway
with the headline: "Dangerous Supplements: Still at Large." In other
words, they would have you believe that certain supplements are
criminals roaming the world out to get you. And that basic genre runs
through the entire feature article.
Devoting the article to the FDA's relationship with the supplement
industry. There is one quote that stands out, and makes CR's position
clear: "The agency continues to be hamstrung by the 1994 Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)." What they don't mention -
or, maybe they don't want you to know - is that the FDA is SUPPOSED to
be hamstrung by DSHEA! That was the whole point of DSHEA, to keep the
FDA from meddling too deeply with the dietary supplements that give
consumers the freedom to make their own healthcare choices. Saying the
FDA is hamstrung by DSHEA is like saying the AMA is hamstrung by the
public's desire for honest medical care and right to know.
Then CR supposedly delved into the "dirty dozen" supplements that are
reputed to cause a variety of health problems. Let me say I am not for
indiscriminant herbal/supplement usage. But the inflammatory wording
used by the CR is so vague and dwells on the few negative aspects
looking to create hysteria and fear. Those problems are reported maybe 3
to 5 times a year and then not very well documented that it is the
herb/supplement. The way I see it, if 100,000 are using that
herb/supplement there is a natural occurrence of 3 or 4 having problems.
Do they die? No! Seems to me like all of 2 people died last year that is
said to be herb/supplement related, yet that has not conclusively been
proven, only alleged... Too bad prescriptions and OTC drugs can't make
that claim. Any one prescription, on average, kills and/or maims 20% of
those people using it and is only effective in 20% to 50% of those
taking it... Herbs have triple the prescription or OTC product
effectiveness...
This CR article is nothing more than something written by the drug
industry to kill the entire supplement industry and make you think they
are all irresponsible and unsafe when the fact is that only a miniscule
percentage of supplements ever cause any problems at all and that mostly
occurs when taken in excess or in conjunction with a prescription or OTC
drug.
If they wanted to be fair they could have been but it doesn't seem that
was their goal.
People taking charge of their health is putting a dent in the
pharmaceutical industry's pocket book and they are coming out with all
their guns and slanted views, not facts. If CR was into facts they would
have covered the prescription and OTC drugs that are killing thousands
monthly and compare that to the healthy supplement industry!
Their worst offender on the list is said to be Aristolochic acid,
extracted from vines of a species of plant called Aristolochia. CR calls
this supplement a "powerful kidney toxin" and states that it "may be
carcinogenic when taken in high doses." The dangers of Aristolochic acid
are highlighted with reference to a well-known incident in the early
1990s. More than 100 patrons in a Belgian weight-loss clinic suffered
kidney failure "after consuming Chinese herbs adulterated with
Aristolochia."
What CR doesn't note is that this concoction of "Chinese herbs" also
contained drugs such as the stimulants fenfluramine and diethylpropion
and was not just herbs. So was Aristolochia responsible for these kidney
problems, or was it simply an unfortunate mix of herbs and drugs? In the
several reports I found about that incident, the conclusions are totally
inconsistent and unable to discern the exact cause of those deaths.
If you do a search for "Aristolochic acid" you will find Warning after
warning after warning. Not advertisements but warnings. So just how
dangerous is that herb? CR would have you believe that it isn't
regulated, but seems to me the supplement industry has that covered
quite well! Again it appears that this CR issue is written to scare and
work toward doing away with the DSHEA law!
CR states that, "Most supplements are probably fairly benign." How
ridiculous is that statement? They do not bother to let you know that
millions are taking supplements and living healthier lives such as
preventing chronic diseases, healing joints, managing pain, lowering
blood pressure, removing cholesterol, healing eye sight and relieving
depression. That's far from "benign". But when it comes to potential
problems, CR doesn't want you to believe supplements are benign at all,
which is obvious by the way they say that supplements suddenly become
potentially "potent" toxins.
CR's message is nothing more than another attack to discredit our rights
to choose how we get and/or stay healthy! Shame on CR for buying into
the drug industry's push to do away with DSHEA with this adulterated
article!
While many Americans are popping risky and expensive statin drugs for
cholesterol control and destroying their liver, heart and bones the FDA
is turning their head and letting people die. Or the fact that the
medical world has no answers for the diabetic and macular degeneration
epidemics that are raging. How about the gross numbers of MS and Lupus
raging due to the ingesting of sugar substitutes? But CR isn't reporting
that either! Why? Because the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have
convinced our medical establishment that expensive toxic drugs are the
answer to all our health problems despite their deadly and toxic track
record...
CR should stick to rating appliances, automobiles, toys and such...
When it comes to healthcare, they continue to mouth the drug industry's
words and skew the facts or let the drug industry write this article.
That off my chest I say, choose wisely, but read carefully and do your
homework!
Lena
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the risk of prostate cancer in men.
A Scripps Clinic of San Diego researchers divided a group of 100 obese
subjects into three equal groups: one group ate half a grapefruit before
each meal, one group drank a glass of grapefruit juice before each meal,
and one group was instructed not to eat any grapefruit or drink any
grapefruit juice. Subjects followed their regimens for three months,
while continuing to eat as they normally would.
What they found backs up the old claims of that old "grapefruit diet"
and the claims that it helps lose weight. Those in the group that ate
grapefruit with each meal lost an average of 3.6 pounds. Subjects in the
grapefruit juice group lost an average of 3.3 pounds. A few of the
subjects in both of these groups lost nearly 10 pounds. Meanwhile, the
average weight loss in the group that consumed no grapefruit was less
than one pound.
Those same researchers also now believe that grapefruit contains
chemical properties that assist in the management of insulin levels - a
potential boon to dieters and diabetics alike. At the beginning and the
completion of the Scripps study, researchers measured the insulin and
glucose levels of all subjects. When the test was over, those in the two
grapefruit groups had lower levels of insulin and glucose than they did
at the beginning, while levels in the non-grapefruit group were
unchanged.
Grapefruit is rich in water-soluble fiber, which has been shown to
enhance digestion while helping regulate the absorption of carbohydrates
that would otherwise contribute to blood sugar spikes. It is also high
in pectin, a soluble fiber that helps reduce cholesterol levels.
Grapefruit is a great and healthy food! WARNING: medications should not
be taken within at least an hour of eating grapefruit or drinking
grapefruit juice as some medication affects are enhanced when combined?
So get those grapefruit peeled and in the mouth if you want to lose
weight and be healthy!
Lena
This really is the straw that has broken the medical world!
Doctors Without Borders
Why you can't trust medical journals anymore.
By Shannon Brownlee
With financial ties to nearly two dozen drug and biotech
companies, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff may hold some sort of record
among academic clinicians for the most conflicts of interest. A
psychiatrist, a prominent researcher, and chairman of the
department of psychiatry and behavioral science at Emory
University in Atlanta, Nemeroff receives funding for his
academic research from Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Pfizer,
Wyeth-Ayerst--indeed from virtually every pharmaceutical house
that manufactures a drug to treat mental illness. He also serves
as a consultant to drug and biotech companies, owns their
stocks, and is a member of several speakers' bureaus, delivering
talks--for a fee--to other physicians on behalf of the
companies' products.
But it was just three of Nemeroff's many financial entanglements
that caught the eye of Dr. Bernard J. Carroll last spring while
reading a paper by the Emory doctor in the prominent scientific
journal, Nature Neuroscience. In that article, Nemeroff and a
co-author reviewed roughly two dozen experimental treatments for
psychiatric disorders, opining that some of the new treatments
were disappointing, while others showed great promise in
relieving symptoms. What struck Carroll, a psychiatrist in
Carmel, Calif., was that three of the experimental treatments
praised in the article were ones that Nemeroff stood to profit
from--including a transdermal patch for the drug lithium, for
which Nemeroff holds the patent.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A bird beak deformity first recorded among
black-capped chickadees near Anchorage has been increasingly seen in
crows in Southeast Alaska, broadening an already mysterious phenomenon.
Black-capped chickadees, Northwestern crows and 27 other species of
birds in Alaska have been reported with beaks up to three times their
normal length. The deformity often strikes mature birds and reduces
their ability to feed and preen effectively. In many birds, the
deformity leads to death.
"We don't know what's causing the problem," said Colleen Handel, a
wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Science
Center in Anchorage. She's been studying the beak deformities for five
years.
Though the phenomenon was first noticed in black-capped chickadees in
the early 1990s, a deformed raven, a deformed Steller's jay and several
deformed crows have been reported in Southeast Alaska since 1997.
Southeast sightings have increased this year, biologists told the Juneau
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The center has received 1,600 reports of deformed black-capped
chickadees beaks in Alaska and 200 reports of other kinds of birds in
Alaska, compared with only 12 reports of beak deformities of
black-capped chickadees in the rest of North America. Handel had no
total for other deformed birds elsewhere in North America but said
nowhere is there a concentration as in Alaska.
Those deformities could have been caused by genetic mutations. Damaged
DNA could be implicated in the abnormal growth, Handel said, but no one
knows what might be causing damage to the DNA.
"With such a broad geographic range, you look for something that could
be occurring over a broad area, and that immediately calls to mind
something like contaminants or a disease organism that could be
affecting a large area," Handel said.
Tests on affected birds have shown no specific parasite or disease, and
only low levels of contaminants.
Besides caring for the health of Alaska's wildlife, there are concerns
about possible implications to humans, Handel said.
"In the back of my mind I always wonder what else might be affected,
depending on what's causing it," Handel said. "... If there's something
happening to those species, it's certainly something that raises an
alarm for all of us."
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