Warning for Users of Brazilian Diet Pill and Herbathin
If you’re using or thinking of purchasing Emagrece Sim (also known as the Brazilian Diet Pill), or Herbathin you need to be very concerned. It has been found that these Brazilian manufactured diet supplements actually contain prescription controlled pharmaceutical compounds that can be dangerous. This, from a recent Health Canada release… “Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that Emagrece Sim, also...
FTC Pulls Plug On Lipodrene, Stimerex-ES and Betadrene
Ephedra is a controversial but popular ingredient in weight loss products, over the counter cold remedies, and herbal bronchodilators. The US government recently outlawed the sale ephedra in fat burners — this law was later overturned by Judge Tena Campbell (of the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City) who struck down the ban on the sale of supplements containing 10 mg or less of ephedra per serving. In her opinion, the FDA had...
In Defence of The Dr. Atkins Diet
It always drives me stark raving crazy when I see some 15-second news clip on TV featuring some nutritionist or other bad-mouthing the Dr. Atkins diet. Of course, they never have anything positive to say… “this low carb diet is dangerous”, or “high protein diets are dangerous” is usually what can be expected to come out of said “expert’s” mouth. To anyone familiar with the Atkins diet,...
Fight Back Against Unethical Supplement Companies!
While I don’t like to tarnish the whole supplement industry with one brush, I can honestly say this is one industry in which unethical behavior — manifesting itself mostly as false and unethical claims — runs rampant. While there are governing bodies in place to stop this sort of thing, they are for the most part under-staffed, and unable to deal with the huge number of wonderous fat burners on the market, all...