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...
read moreWeighty Matters: “The Biggest Loser Destroys Participants’ Metabolisms”
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff reports on a new study… In an article published yesterday ahead of print, Darcy Johannsen and friends studied the impact 7 months of Biggest Loser weight loss had on the resting and total energy expenditures of 16 participants. They used all the latest...
read more“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 –...
read moreNYT: “Bridal Hunger Games”
Sigh… In March, Jessica Schnaider, 41, of Surfside, Fla., was preparing to shop for a wedding gown by spending eight days on a feeding tube. The diet, under a doctor’s supervision, offered 800 calories a day while she went about her business, with a tube in her nose....
read moreSlate: “America’s Pedestrian Problem”
This morning – after returning from a walk in my new neighborhood – I stumbled on a series published in Slate: “America’s Pedestrian Problem.” It’s subdivided into 4 articles: “The Crisis in American Walking,” “Sidewalk...
read moreThank You, Kathy Switzer
Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially enter and run the Boston Marathon in 1967.* Now personally, I couldn’t care less about marathoning. And that goes double for the Boston event being run on Monday. I like running for cardio – I’ve been doing it...
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