Here is part of the info in regards to toxic ingredients. I am still going through my files in regards to the specific ingredient combinations that are "deemed" safe but combine into a toxic cocktail in our products. I will post that ASAP.
I know this friend who had a third cousin who knew a guy who hooked up with a hot chick in Las Vegas;they went to his room for what he thought would be a passionate night. She made him a drink...and that was the last thing he remembered...until he woke up in a bathtub full of bloody icewater. There was a note, it read "Dear sir-you have been drinking way too many diet cokes and you had unacceptable levels of aspartame in your Loops of Henle, so we took the liberty to perform a partial nephrectomy. To compensate you, we leave some nice Alpine bitterroot to flush your system and some colon cleanse to clean out the toxins and some literature regarding exciting multilevel marketing opportunities to distribute our products.
This is true, it really happened, facts be damned. Right?:roll:
By the way, are these personal testimonials or something posted on the internet. Don't make me google the mysterious Lt Wombat to confirm his existence
Then hang around some MySpace health groups where ordinary people report the same adverse reactions to these sweetners. Just because they are not keeled over in your emergency room does not mean the problem or the people suffering from it do not exist.
Decades ago, the medical community shunned chiropractors calling them "quacks." How ironic that today, insurance now covers chiropractic care.
So go cast your vote to purchase a new plane to fumigate SoWal, and I will lobby for fly boxes and bat houses. I hereby agree to disagree with you on this whole issue.
Smiley J, you are right on target greater than 90% of the time, but your statements regarding big herbal wanting their products evaluated by the FDA is 100% incorrect. I gave a talk a few years ago about herbal remedies and did some research on the industry. At some point in the early to mid 1990s, congress (despite big pharma's rich lobbyists) blessed the industry with essentially a carte blanche to research, develop, manufacture and market their herbs and vitamins without FDA oversight...as I stated above, so long as the product label did not claim to diagnose or treat any condition and that claims made by the manufacturer were not evaluated by the FDA, they could sell whatever the hell they wanted.
Below I have attached a chart of the path taken when big pharma wants to develop a new drug. Big vitamin/herba has no requirement to go through this process. They can have a product on the shelves with the rate limiting step being marketing or label design!
Now, please explain to me what incentive the producers of herbs/vitamins have to get involved in the FDA plan?
Mango, I would like to learn more about those traps which you mentioned. Do you have a resource for these traps which you could share?
First of all, unless you actually lived here before the Mosquito Control started up, you really don't know what you are talking about when the comment is made that you would rather live with dog flies and mosquitoes. We now live relatively comfortable because of what they have accomplished. I applaud them. The Mosquito Control has made incredible achievement in controlling these pests, and I really don't believe that we will totally eradicate the mosquito, or the other pests, and if man doesn't control them, the balance of nature gets lopsided. Whether it is Malithion, or some other pesticide, something needs to be used. Yes there are side effects of the poisons, best to stay indoors when they are sprayed. If someone comes up with a better solution than Malithion, bring it forward!
I understand that other cities have curved the use of some poisons, yet bed bugs are on the rise, along with rats! Who knows what else! There are pros and cons to everything, they must be weighed very carefully.
Then hang around some MySpace health groups where ordinary people report the same adverse reactions to these sweetners. Just because they are not keeled over in your emergency room does not mean the problem or the people suffering from it do not exist.
Decades ago, the medical community shunned chiropractors calling them "quacks." How ironic that today, insurance now covers chiropractic care.
So go cast your vote to purchase a new plane to fumigate SoWal, and I will lobby for fly boxes and bat houses. I hereby agree to disagree with you on this whole issue.
The DSHEA act didn't give an open door policy any more than pharmaceutical companies have. What about prescription NSAIDs that were pulled off the shelf after being given out like candy in samples and prescriptions because of deadly side effects that no one bothered to test? Have you ever read the freaking side effects on the bottle of Infant Motrin? That crap is scarier than 99% of all natural supplements!!!!! Do not act like everything that comes from pharmaceutical companies is even remotely safe. And if people didn't question what even MDs give them, they could be in a boatload of trouble because most MDs "secondary education" is from the d*** pharmaceutical companies via sales reps, most of the time.
Also, what about drugs like Dostinex & Fen-Phen? Where's the safety there?
In regards to our previous comments on prevention, if allopathic medicine gives little or no credit to nutrition, then what type of prevention can an MD assist with? Tests? Okay. But what are the options? If an MD can't assist with anything more than telling a person not to each fast food so much, then what assistance is that truly? Are the options for prevention still drugs or surgery, which is where MDs' expertise lies? Well, if you are not sick and trying not to get sick, why would those be options? So, there is a gap where allopathic medicine, as a general rule, cannot help the consumer/patient. BUT you laugh at those who want to use cleansing & detoxification as preventative measures.
I laugh with you, but I know where I'd rather put my trust, with those who would truly help me prevent disease instead of just catching it in "hopefully" early stages and then killing my system with a bunch of possibily unnecessary, toxic drugs. Again, if I was having a heart attack, a stroke or needed an emergency C-Section, I'm all yours, Doc. But in regards to allopathic medicine being able to help with healthcare.... nope. Y'all are in the sick care business, my friend.