SBM: “Dr. Oz and Green Coffee Beans – More Weight Loss Pseudoscience”
Normally, I don’t look forward to Mondays, but today is an exception… we hosted 5 of our kids’ friends from the Tri-Cities for the weekend. Nothing like having 7 teenagers (ok, 6 teenagers – Number One Son is actually 22) around the house, to feed, transport, and tip-toe around in the morning. A good time, however, was had by all – even the chauffeur (yours truly – I rented a Dodge minivan for the...
Talk About Inflated Ad Claims!
I’ve seen some pretty outrageous claims for supps before, but I think the claims for “Undoit,” an Australian product, take the cake: A WEIGHT-LOSS treatment that claims to allow users to gorge on fatty foods and then “undo it” by taking a specified number of its herbal pills is fighting a push to have it banned by the industry regulator. The “Undoit” pills’ website tells readers they can...
FDA Action Against DMAA Prompts New Lawsuits
According to Nutraingredients USA, the recent set of warning letters sent by the FDA to 10 sports nutrition companies has set off a wave of consumer lawsuits. Evidently every one of the companies in the FDA’s crosshairs has now been hit, as in addition to as-yet-unnamed companies not included in the agency’s crackdown. The suits named in the article are: Govinda Hogan and Catherine Giasone vs. USP Labs (filed in February)...
Beginning of the End for DMAA?
Straight from the horse’s mouth: FDA challenges marketing of DMAA products for lack of safety evidence Agency cites ten companies in warning letters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued warning letters to ten manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements containing dimethylamylamine, more popularly known as DMAA, for marketing products for which evidence of the safety of the product had not been submitted...
“Dateline” on Supplement Testing
When this “Dateline” episode on supplement testing was aired (March 18th), I was too busy packing boxes to pay attention. But now that Chez Lowe has been successfully relocated, it’s worth visiting. The episode – like most mass media treatments – raised the alarm about supplement safety. Although the narrator admitted early on that most manufacturers are “responsible,” this caveat was quickly...
Go Read Dr. Freedhoff’s Latest Post About Dr. Oz
Seriously: here’s a link to “A Tale of Two Oz’s” at Dr. Freedhoff’s blog, “Weighty Matters.” Good stuff – I really can’t add anything to it. Dr. Freedhoff is dead right about the relative lack of studies on raspberry ketone for weight loss. Beyond the two “shaky” studies mentioned, there’s only industry-funded stuff like this. At this point, the evidence is pretty...
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