FDA Sez Homeopathic HCG Supps are Illegal
And – according to USA Today, “fraudulent,” too. A popular type of weight-loss products, heavily promoted on the Internet, is fraudulent and illegal, Food and Drug Administration officials say. HCG weight-loss products that promise dramatic results and claim to be homeopathic are sold as drops, pellets and sprays on the Web, in drugstores and at General Nutrition Centers. They are supposed to be used in combination...
eXfuze Review Part II: Seven+ Hours of My Life That I’ll Never Get Back
This is a continuation of two earlier posts: “I Love the Smell of Plagiarism in the Morning,” and “eXfuze Review Part I: Some Background.” As you can tell from the title, this post concerns eXfuze’s “Seven+ Classic” drink. You can probably also tell that I did not particularly enjoy writing it. I had to sort through a lot of literature in the process – a time-and-brain sucking task. Now...
eXfuze Review Part I: Some Background
Ok, let’s take a closer look at the eXfuze line of antioxidant drinks, as I promised in an earlier post. Due to time constraints, I’m going to string this out over several posts, so that I can cover everything in depth… there are some points I’ll be making that pertain to more than just the eXfuze products, so bear with me. Before digging into the nitty-gritty, let’s “set the stage,” so to...
Taking Claims With a Grain of (Bacon) Salt
I’d like to introduce you to three rather… unique food products: 1. “Monkey Milk” 2. “Bacon Baby Infant Formula” 3. Canned Unicorn Meat Now, in case you haven’t guessed by now (#3 is an especially obvious clue), all three products were fakes – they never existed outside of the imaginations of the merry pranksters who invented and publicized them. Nonetheless, they attracted the attention...
The Healthy Skeptic on Telomerase Supplements
You may have heard something in the news about a recent experiment in mice… Scientists have partially reversed age-related degeneration in mice, an achievement that suggests a new approach for tackling similar disorders in people. By tweaking a gene, the researchers reversed brain disease and restored the sense of smell and fertility in prematurely aged mice. …The experiment focused on telomerase, an enzyme that makes...
Photo Manipulation: Not Done Only on Women’s Pics
The documentary, “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” came out in 2008, so a lot of people have seen it by now. But for those who haven’t, I thought the following clip (via Sociological Images), which discusses how “before/after” pics can be manipulated, was worth posting: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZpVeWsfK4] We’ll soon be saying farewell to 2010 and ringing in the New Year. I don’t know...
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