Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Following are some of the other traditional health claims for tea:
• increases blood flow throughout the body
• stimulates mental clarity
• detoxifies the body
• boosts irnmunity
• preserves young-looking skin
• brightens the eyes
• aids digestion
• banishes fatigue
• prolongs the life span
For many years, scientists were skeptical about the health claims made by tea proponents. This skepticism was soon transformed into appreciation when researchers began scientific investigations into the disease-preventing properties of green tea and confirmed most of the health claims. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 HEALTH CLAIMS FOR HERBAL MEDICINE
Modern scientific research has much to say about what criteria are used to evaluate health claims for herbs. There seem to be two approaches: (1) the evidence-based or science-based approach and (2) the empirical or traditional approach. In herbal medicinal practice, there is basically only one approach and it involves an integration of both approaches.
There is a longstanding empirical criterion that has been used for thousands of years: do the substances work? |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 B)(defining "drug" to mean "articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals)".
3 health claims that are authorized through the submission of a premar-ket notification under procedures established by the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 for health claims based on the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Analyze the ingredients and ignore the health claims on the front of the package. health claims are meaningless. Visit our informative article: How to read ingredients labels to learn more. |
Ann N. Martin
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 The main focus of the FDA/CVM revolves around verifying health claims made by pet food companies rather than investigating consumer complaints about pet food. The FDA/CVM oversees health claims made by pet food companies placed on their labels to attract consumers to their particular product. Pet food companies are not supposed to make claims that their particular pet food is for the prevention or treatment of a disease. For example, in 1990 some pet food manufacturers advertised that their cat food might prevent Feline Urological Syndrome (FUS). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Analyze the ingredients and ignore the health claims on the front of the package. health claims are meaningless. Visit our informative article: How to read ingredients labels to learn more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course, the show organizers will say the purpose of the FDA Enforcement Officer is to make sure nobody gets carried away with outlandish health claims. Because outlandish health claims should be reserved for television ads featuring FDA-approved prescription drugs, you see.
Is Horizon really organic?
The top sponsor of the show was Horizon Organic, the "organic" milk company. It's the same company now being boycotted by the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org) for false labeling. Every time I asked a vendor, "What do you think about the integrity of the show sponsors? |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Since evidence of effectiveness is not required, the only rule is that nutraceutical manufacturers can't make health claims about their products. So marketers have to be careful not to say that their product can relieve symptoms such as fatigue or pain. Doing so without evidence and FDA approval is illegal, although a glance at just about any health magazine shows ads that do make substantial health claims.
In addition, the entrepreneur selling these products does not have to demonstrate that they are safe. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 She was later tried and convicted of violating the health claims Law, a law that did not exist at the time of the raid and was never passed by the U.S. Congress. Nonetheless, likely due to FDA pressure on the presiding judge, she was sentenced to 179 days in prison and fined $10,000 for daring to say that vitamins are good for puppy dogs!
1990 - The Highland Laboratories raid
In 1990, Ken Scott ran a vitamin business in Mt. Angel, Oregon, a small rural town. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The same junk food crap that wasn't labeled with any health claims two years ago is now labeled "all natural" and positioned in the healthy food section of the grocery store. Same ingredients, new spin. It's all about positioning.
All this doesn't mean there aren't some genuinely natural products available in the marketplace today. There are, but they aren't manufactured by the big brand-name food companies. A few smaller, niche-market companies are offering real food these days, but you have to search them out. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Trudeau is a favorite target of the FTC, and he's been sued before over health claims for his coral calcium products. The FTC even forced him into a settlement where he could no longer sell nutritional products. That's what eventually led Trudeau to write his Natural Cures books, which are now probably the most commercially successful books ever sold via infomercials.
The FTC, it seems, wants to keep targeting Trudeau regardless of what he sells. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We make no health claims whatsoever about the use of soap nuts, other than to state what is NOT in it: No synthetic chemicals, pesticides or additives of any kind. Inventory is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Product satisfaction is guaranteed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Censoring truthful health claims of nutritional supplements
While the FDA claims it raided the Charantea company in order to protect consumers from mislabeled products, the truth is that the agency -- which operates a criminal prescription drug racket that should be prosecuted under organized crime laws -- is far more interested in protecting the market for pharmaceuticals. Herbal tea products that effectively lower blood sugar are seen as competition for high-profit diabetes drugs. |
Mike Adams
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 The FDA has even approved certain health claims that may be printed on the labels of products made with oats. Certainly, oats can be healthy if eaten in their whole grain form, but almost no oat product at any grocery store offers that: they mostly contain instant, processed oats that are both easy to cook and much higher on the glycemic index scale than whole grain oats.
In other words, when the FDA approved health claims for oats, they made no consideration for the form of those oats. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Because outlandish health claims should be reserved for television ads featuring FDA-approved prescription drugs, you see.
Is Horizon really organic?
The top sponsor of the show was Horizon Organic, the "organic" milk company. It's the same company now being boycotted by the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org) for false labeling. Every time I asked a vendor, "What do you think about the integrity of the show sponsors?" I got a huge laugh. Everybody on the show floor knew the top sponsors were a joke. |
Michael Pollan
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 When corn oil and chips and sugary breakfast cereals can all boast being good for your heart, health claims have become hopelessly corrupt. The American Heart Association currently bestows (for a fee) its heart-healthy seal of approval on Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, andTrix cereals, Yoo-hoo lite chocolate drink, and Healthy Choice's Premium Caramel Swirl Ice Cream Sandwich—this at a time when scientists are coming to recognize that dietary sugar probably plays a more important role in heart disease than dietary fat. |
| Though someone might have let the consumer in on this game: The FDA's own research indicates that consumers have no idea what to make of qualified health claims (how would they?), and its rules allow companies to promote the claims pretty much any way they want—they can use really big type for the claim, for example, and then print the disclaimers in teeny-tiny type. |
| But for the most part it is the products of food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often erroneous science—the dubious fruits of nutritionism. Don't forget that trans-fat-rich margarine, one of the first industrial foods to claim it was healthier than the traditional food it replaced, turned out to give people heart attacks. |
| Watch out for those health claims. of meals, but also has done little for our health, except very possibly to make it worse.
These are strong words, I know. Here are a couple more: What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure. You can argue, as some diehards will do, that the problem was one of faulty execution or you can accept that the underlying tenets of the ideology contained the seeds of the eventual disaster. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The scientist in me wants to see some hard research supporting its health claims. But the adventurer/maverick in me acknowledges the fact that apple cider vinegar has been used as a folk remedy for more years than I've been alive, that people swear by it to help myriad conditions, that it has a long and honorable tradition in folk medicine, and that all that has got to count for something. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The announcement by Mars and other candy producers that "chocolate is good for your heart" applies only to a tiny fraction of the chocolates sold, and therefore is misleading. The health claims made are part of a clever marketing campaign to sell more chocolate of any kind, knowing well that most people buy the cheapest chocolate available. The proclaimed health benefits of chocolate can, however, only be applied to fermented, roasted cocoa beans and the more expensive dark chocolate with mostly natural and healthy ingredients. |
| Goodlad of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund stated in 1996:
"Until individual constituents of fiber have been shown to have, at the very least, a non-detrimental effect in prospective human trials, we urge that restraint should be shown in adding fiber supplements to foods, and that unsubstantiated health claims be restricted."..."Specific dietary fiber supplements, embraced as nutriceuticals or functional foods, are an unknown and potentially damaging way to influence modern dietary habits of the general population. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 What an amazing collection of health claims, none backed by research, but all surrounded by a large dose of misogyny!
As it turned out, estrogens are effective in controlling menopausal hot flashes. Otherwise, each and every one of these medical claims proved to be false.
Nonetheless, between 1963 and 1975, dollar sales for prescription estrogen replacements quadrupled. As one Harvard researcher noted:
"Few medical interventions have had as widespread application as exogenous estrogen treatment in postmenopausal women. |
Michael Pollan
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| There are no ingredients labels, no health claims, nothing to read except maybe a recipe. It's hard when contemplating such produce to think in terms of nutrients or chemical compounds; no, this is food, so fresh it's still alive, communicating with us by scent and color and taste. The good cook takes in all this sensory information and only then decides what to do with the basket of possibilities on the counter: what to combine it with; how, and how much, to "process" it. Now the culture of the kitchen takes over. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Status of Nutrition Labeling, health claims, and
Nutrient Content Claims for Processed Foods: 1997 Food Label and Package Survey." Journal of
American Dietetic Association 100 (2000): 1057-62. Browne, Mona Boyd. Label Facts for Healthful Eating. Dayton, OH: The Mazer Corporation, 1993. Burger King website, www.burgerking.com.
Challem, Jack. "Fructose: Maybe Not So Natural . . . and Not So Safe." Nutrition Reporter. http://www.thenutritionreporter.com/fructose_dangers.html.
Center for Science in the Public Interest. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 FDA allows health claims to be made) for 8 weeks in the morning and 8 weeks in the evening. No effect on any measurement of lipids—total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides—was found in the group overall or in any sub-group analysis, leading the authors to conclude that recommending Psyllium for lowering these risk factors and preventing heart disease may be altogether premature. Total cholesterol for the "AM first" group was 5.76 mmol/L at baseline, 5.77 5.76 mmol/L at 8 weeks, and 5.80 5.76 mmol/L at 16 weeks, while the "PM first" group readings were 5.47, 5.61, and 5. |
| The FDA has approved health claims that Soy products can lower coronary heart disease by lowering blood cholesterol levels. Germany's Commission E approves of its use for elevated cholesterol as well. Soy may have a beneficial effect on cognitive function, but its role in this capacity needs much more elucidation. Soy protein may improve insulin resistance and glycemic control and may have a use as part of a diabetic regime. Soy is mostly beneficial for use in menopause, but not all clinical trials demonstrate positive results. More studies are needed to further define its role. |
Jack Challem
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 Take all health claims with the proverbial grain of salt.
The Nutrition Facts box (sample pictured on page 119) provides a wealth of useful information about the product. Unfortunately, the information allows for some loopholes. For example, serving sizes may be deceptively small, and trans fats may be present even when the Nutrition Facts box claims that the product is free of them.
The Ingredients list identifies, in descending order by weight, most or all of the ingredients that were used to make the product. |
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SPECIFIC BRANDS OF SUPPLEMENTS WE LIKE
Trying to remember the large number of nutritional supplements, along with all sorts of health claims, can make shopping confusing. Based on our experiences, we like and recommend the following specific products.
• Carlson Nutra-Support Diabetes. This high-potency multivitamin was formulated to enhance the nutrition of people who have prediabetes and diabetes. If you want to keep your tablets and capsules to an absolute minimum, this is the one product you should take. More information is available at www.carlsonlabs.com. |
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