What The Heck Is Gastric Electrical Stimulation?
Man, oh man. Things are getting freakier by the second. Here I was thinking that eating right and exercise were the key to weight loss, but nooooo… … at least not when you have Gastric Electrical Stimulation at your beck and call. I know what you’re thinking (no, no, this isn’t a psychic hotline commercial)… What the heck is Gastric Electrical Stimulation? Well, I know that’s what I was thinking....
Hah! Atkins Diet Wins Again!
You gotta love it. And I bet the late Dr. Atkins really loves it. Another study, this one published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, indicates that not only is the Atkins diet more effective than more the more conventional Zone, Ornish, and LEARN diets, it also leads to better blood lipid, cholesterol, and blood pressure levels as well. Am I happy about this? You bet. For ages, one of my biggest pet peeves has been...
Once Again, Diet Pill Retailers Fined For Scummy Behavior!
Sigh. Here we go again. Yup, the FTC has recently charged several companies with making false and unsubstantiated claims about their products. Fines run into the millions of dollars — and why shouldn’t they? After all, the unsuspecting public has been swindled of their cash and duped into believing there’s some sort of magic pill for weight loss — which of course, does not exist. In some cases, the retailers...
An Unsettling Trend…
I’ve been noticing an unsettling trend with the claims made by supplement retailers lately. Seems it’s no longer enough to make one outrageous claim about your product — i.e., “lose 20 lbs. in 10 days.” Nope, now retailers are pushing the envelope even farther, some of them making two and even three ridiculous, unsubstantiated claims about their products. Check this out for instance…Zalestrim...
New Fat Burner Reviews On UltimateFatBurner.com! Oct. 2006
Wow! I’ve got a ton of new reviews for you to check out (what can I say — with fall arriving and the weather getting worse, I’ve had a bit of extra time on my hands). Anyhow, here’s those reviews…1) Nutracore Hoodia XPF (Extreme Power Formula…‘>http://www.ultimatefatburner.com/nutracore-hoodia.html”>2) Zoeta fat Burner…http://www.ultimatefatburner.com/zoeta-review.html3)...
The Ephedra Ban… Here We Go Again!
On April 14 2005, Judge Tena Campbell of the U. S. District Court in Salt Lake City struck down the FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) ban on the sale of the herbal supplement ephedra. According to the judge, the FDA had not met the burden of proof that any specific dosage of the controversial weight-loss drug ephedra was dangerous. Now, a US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has overturned her decision, ruling that the FDA was...