Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Instead, supplement manufacturers have learned how to sidestep the law with cleverly worded product names and descriptions. They cannot say that the product will mitigate, cure, prevent or treat a disease, but they do a great job at implying that they do. Buyer beware.
Supplements Will Make You Look Better
This is the first of the big, fat health and fitness lies of the supplement industry. There are no shortages of claims made by supplement manufacturers to make you look slim, svelte and attractive. |
| This means that supplement manufacturers are forbidden to make these specific claims. This has done little to protect the public and more to protect the sales and profits of the pharmaceutical industry. Instead, supplement manufacturers have learned how to sidestep the law with cleverly worded product names and descriptions. They cannot say that the product will mitigate, cure, prevent or treat a disease, but they do a great job at implying that they do. Buyer beware.
Supplements Will Make You Look Better
This is the first of the big, fat health and fitness lies of the supplement industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When will free speech finally become a reality for nutritional supplement manufacturers? It can only happen with radical reforms that end the medical monopoly currently enforced by the Big Pharma / FDA conspiracy. See my book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them to learn more: http://www.TruthPublishing.com/NaturalHealthSolutions.html
Today, it is very clear that we are NOT living in a free society. Freedom of speech is simply not allowed for anyone selling food, herbs or nutritional supplements of any kind. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why the FDA censors the truth about healing foods and supplements
Current FDA regulations do not allow nutritional supplement manufacturers to make any true statements about the health benefits of their products. Companies that sell vitamin C, for example, cannot claim vitamin C cures scurvy without being threatened, raided at gunpoint and having their inventory confiscated by the Food and Drug Administration. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| By terrorizing fruit growers, herbal tea companies and nutritional supplement manufacturers, the Food and Drug Administration continues to exercise iron-grip control over the printing of any information regarding the true medicinal applications of foods and plants. The FDA's censorship campaign is, by any measure, outrageously successful, and any company that dares to tell the truth about its own products is very much aware that they risk being put out of business by this rogue agency. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why is it illegal for nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about the anti-cancer effects of their products? Broccoli, garlic, onions and sprouts all have powerful anti-cancer effects, as do dozens of rainforest herbs (Cat's Claw, for example), Chinese herbs and Western herbs. But the FDA threatens and censors any company that dares to mention cancer prevention on its supplement products. Why is the FDA enforcing a policy of nutritional ignorance with U.S. consumers? Why does the federal government want people to remain ignorant of methods for preventing or treating cancer? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Through a massive campaign of censorship, intimidation and thuggish tactics, the FDA has managed to scare virtually all nutritional supplement manufacturers into self-censorship. So nobody tells the truth about what their products can do. You can't even claim that vitamin C cures scurvy or that vitamin D cures rickets.
(Just so you don't think I'm inventing all this information, read my book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them, which documents over a dozen FDA raids on vitamin shops, medical clinics and even a church! |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 A website hosted by USP-certified supplement manufacturers; it is designed to help consumers to sort out the truth from the fictions in the supplement marketplace, and to offer easy-to-understand, current information about nutritional supplements.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Fact Sheets— http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/Vitamin_and_Mineral_Supplement_Fact_She ets.aspx: NIH fact sheets on vitamins and minerals.
Seafood Choices Alliance—www.seafoodchoices. |
Mike Adams
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| In fact, the FDA battled vigorously against the DSHEA Act in 1994 that finally allowed nutritional supplement manufacturers to make qualified statements on their products, as long as such statements were followed with the quote, "This statement has not been endorsed by the FDA."
We should allow supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about what their products do when it is based on available clinical evidence. It shouldn't be illegal to speak the truth about the relationship between nutrition and chronic disease. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Another caveat: not all supplement manufacturers are the same, and some supplements manufactured both in the United States and abroad have been found to contain traces of heavy metals and other harmful ingredients.
An essential first step for anyone suffering from autoimmune disease is to ensure that his or her gastrointestinal tract is thriving. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| There are no shortages of claims made by supplement manufacturers to make you look slim, svelte and attractive. There are also no supplements that provide the proclaimed results if they are not part of a balanced routine that includes exercise and a low-calorie nutrition program. Literally, every product will carry these disclaimers. It's the ultimate lie.
There are two categories of products marketed to sell this lie — thermogenic aids and appetite suppressants. Thermogenic aids claim to increase your metabolism to cause your body to burn more calories when at rest. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Food, drug, and supplement manufacturers sometimes make seemingly minute changes in the use or combination of chemicals that can result in dire consequences for consumers—some of which, in the past, have led to frightening overnight autoimmune cluster epidemics.
Such was the case, for example, in 1989 with an outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS), an autoimmune cluster epidemic that caused severe fatigue, muscle pain, and weakness to the point that patients were rendered unable to function. |
Hyla Cass
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| A website hosted by USP-certified supplement manufacturers; it is designed to help consumers to sort out the truth from the fictions in the supplement marketplace, and to offer easy-to-understand, current information about nutritional supplements.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Fact Sheets?http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/Vitamin_and_Mineral_Supplement_Fact_She ets.aspx: NIH fact sheets on vitamins and minerals.
Seafood Choices Alliance—www.seafoodchoices. |
Bill Sardi
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 When dietary supplement manufacturers submitted an application to the Food & Drug Administration regarding a claim that lycopene inhibits prostate and other malignancies, the application was turned down. The supplement companies cried foul.
The FDA responded to the appeal by saying that it is mulling over the idea of accepting a health claim for lycopene as follows: "Prostate Cancer - Very limited and preliminary scientific research suggests that eating one-half to one cup of tomatoes and/or tomato sauce a week may reduce the risk of prostate cancer. |
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The supplement manufacturers can't figure out why their health claims have been denied when it's obvious their lycopene products aren't stable and don't provide the same consistent benefits as tomato paste or tomato paste-powder.
So what should a cancer patient do? There are some other ways to optimize lycopene for health.
One is to incorporate tomato paste and other processed tomato products into the diet, and use with oils like virgin olive oil, along with vitamin E and flaxseed meal, to enhance absorption and antioxidant activity while calming hormone levels. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Pharmaceutical and supplement manufacturers have to increase sales and profits, as all businesses must, and they do so in part by developing drugs to treat disease and also by convincing people they need meds to prevent disease or lessen the perceived risk of future illness. The result is that nondisclosure of potentially harmful side effects of the drugs they make has become routine. Unearthing and compiling that veiled or hidden information is the mission of this book. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 FDA Advises Dietary supplement manufacturers to Remove Comfrey Products from the Market. Jul 6. Available at: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/dms/dspltr06.html (cited 8/7/2001). 2001
Loots JM, Loots GP, Joubert WS. The effect of allantoin on cellular multiplication in degenerating and regenerating nerves. S Afr Med J Jan 13;55(2):53-56. 1979
Makarova GV & Zaraiska KN. Chemical study of the root of common Comfrey (Symphytum officinale L). Chem Abstr; 66(10):49229h. 1967
Mascolo N et al. Phytother Res; 1(1):28. 1987
Mattocks AR. Toxicity of pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Nature; 217(130):723-728. |
Elaine Magee
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 The theory here, and the reason supplement manufacturers add vitamin E to their fish-oil products, is that this vitamin helps prevent oxidation of fatty acids. So what's the take-home message? According to Dr. Kris-Etherton, well-designed, long-term studies on people have not shown clearly that vitamin E supplements help prevent heart disease. However, she believes there is a consensus that diets with a favorable fatty acid composition that are also rich in food-derived antioxidants are effective in this role. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| In 2000 a metaanalysis of studies of glucosamine and chondroitin found that the studies that were funded by supplement manufacturers resulted in more favorable results for the supplement combo than did independent studies; few of the manufacturers' studies were properly controlled. Overall there was a moderate effect for both, and the authors concluded that some degree of efficacy was probable.17
Only one of the studies reviewed in 2000 reported that patients definitely did not know whether they were being given a supplement or a placebo. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The fact that food manufacturers and vitamin supplement manufacturers can put highly toxic, death-promoting, disease-causing ingredients into your foods, products and supplements and sell them to you without warning labels is absolutely unconscionable. It's near criminal that they allow this to happen.
Failing to warn consumers about toxic vitamin fillers should be a crime
Lawmakers have been asleep at the wheel. They've allowed food companies to run the system. |
Mike Adams
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 Why is it illegal for nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell the truth about the health benefits of their products?
Why do cancer doctors insist their patients should never take nutritional supplements that would boost immune system function and support their own recovery?
•* Why have none of the most popular psychotropic drugs currently being used to treat children ever been approved for use on children by the FDA?
<•* Why does the FDA approve drugs based entirely on drug research conducted by drug companies themselves, who obviously have a profit bias to produce positive results? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They've allowed drug companies and nutritional supplement manufacturers to steamroll any attempt to protect the public, and that's why all these dangerous, toxic, disease-promoting ingredients are still perfectly legal.
The FDA seemingly continues to actually support these ingredients. They haven't done enough to try to outlaw them. It seems that from the FDA's point of view, getting tough means sending a wimpy warning letter that says, "Oh, by the way, your ads are misleading people." To them, it means requiring trans fats to be listed on foods. Never mind actually outlawing the ingredient. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Similarly, some nutritional supplement manufacturers are now partially owned by those very same pharmaceutical companies. None of this proves that corruption is taking place in these organizations, but it does create a structure of potential influence where investors with large purse strings are able to influence the direction of these organizations (usually by sitting on their Board of Directors).
In contrast, here at Truth Publishing, we do not accept investment funds from anyone: not from private investors, venture capital groups, nor corporations. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 However, FDA regulations do not allow supplement manufacturers to list the concentration of monacolins in their products.
Resveratrol
Description: Resveratrol is a compound found in red wine that has potent antioxidant activity. Preliminary research has demonstrated cardiovascular benefit and possible anticancer properties.
Indications: Antioxidant
Cancer prevention
Cardiovascular disease prevention Precautions: There have been no reported side effects. Dosage: Take 500 meg to 50 mg daily. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: That legislation would require supplement manufacturers to report any adverse events, when all adverse event reporting is optional for pharmaceuticals, correct?
John: Exactly. It would burden the supplement industry unfairly, especially given that there is hard evidence that dietary supplements are far safer than food in common form. I do not see toll-free numbers being forced onto jars of peanut butter, despite the fact that every year a certain number of people die because they have allergic reactions to peanuts that cause them to go into anaphylactic shock and drop dead. |
Mike Adams
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 This focus on isolated nutrients is all part of the reductionistic approach to medicine, of course, and supplement manufacturers are guilty of the same dogmatic reasoning: they frequently manufacture and market supplements containing isolated phytochemicals that have been shown to have specific health benefits. There's nothing wrong with the intention, but it's missing the potentially much greater benefit of eating the whole food. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 This new pharmacological industry draws together an unlikely confederacy: plant collectors and anthropologists; ecologists and conservationists; natural product companies and nutritional supplement manufacturers; AIDS and cancer researchers; executives in the world's largest drug companies; and native indigenous shamans. They are part of a radical experiment: to preserve the world's rainforests by showing how much more valuable they are standing than cut down. And it is a race against a clock whose every tick means another acre of charred forest. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 How can you believe what is written in medical journals and magazines when the authors of the articles are being paid by drug or supplement manufacturers to say either positive things or negative things about a particular subject or product? How can you believe any scientific study when we know they are virtually all bought and paid for, directly or indirectly, from a company that has a financial interest in what the study says? |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Many supplement manufacturers add ginseng to combination products, but these often contain such low amounts that they may not be effective. Wakunaga of America distributes several high-quality Korean and Siberian ginseng products.
We advise following the Russian approach to using ginseng: Take it for fifteen to twenty days, followed by a rest period of two weeks. Avoid long-term usage of high doses.
Glucomannan
See under Fiber in this section.
Glucosamine
This is one of a number of substances classified as an amino sugar. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Yet again, we see that while supplements may give great wealth to supplement manufacturers, they will not give great health to you and me.
When all was said and done, this study found that macular degeneration risk could be reduced by as much as 88%, simply by eating the right foods.*1
At this point you may be wondering, "Where can I get some of those carotenoids?" Green leafy vegetables, carrots and citrus fruits are all good sources. Herein lies a problem, however. |
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