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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/10/2009 : 04:19:29
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Well, I would and have for a long time, but then I have a nasty, suspicious mind to start with.
Link Grady Jackson, a defensive tackle with the Atlanta Falcons, said he used the weight-loss capsules. Kathie Lee Gifford was enthusiastic about them on the “Today” show. Retailers like GNC and the Vitamin Shoppe sold them, no prescription required.
Nikki Haskell's company distributed StarCaps pills before recalling them.
Grady Jackson tested positive for bumetanide.
But the Food and Drug Administration now says those weight-loss capsules, called StarCaps and promoted as natural dietary supplements using papaya, could be hazardous to your health. In violation of the law, the agency has found, the capsules also contained a potent pharmaceutical drug called bumetanide which can have serious side effects.
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And not to put too fine a point on it: Pieter Cohen, a general internist at the Cambridge Health Alliance public hospital system in the Boston area. Over the last few years, he said he had treated many patients who took tainted weight-loss pills and came in complaining of chest pains and heart palpitations. “I think doctors need to be a lot more thoughtful — whether patients are buying from local health food stores, off the Internet, or from friends.”
Of the nearly $24 billion spent on dietary supplements in this country in 2007, about $1.7 billion went for weight-loss pills, according to Nutrition Business Journal, a market research firm. About 15 percent of American adults said they had used weight-loss supplements and the majority failed to inform their doctors about it, according to a phone questionnaire of 9,500 adults conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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One of the greatest thinkers of the ages once said: "Never give a sucker an even break!"
I think Canada Bill Jones has sumed up this sitution nicely.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Who'da thunk it?
