Huge Recall on this supplement! Linked to Liver Failure & Death! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090501/...et_pill_recall
So out of 9,000,000 uses of this product, there was 1 death in 2007 and 1 apparent need for a transplant? I'm not saying its not apparently dangerous, but I'd say that almost anything you put in your body can cause 1/9,000,000 deaths. Heck, I bet celery kills more people than that.
I love these ads. YOU CAN LOSE WEIGHT IF YOU TAKE THIS PILL!!!!!* *along with maintaining a healthy diet and lots of exercise
The real problem is the numbnuts that take it like asprin - 2 or 3 doses at once. Dumb dumb dumb. Same thing when all those athletes died while using ephedrine.
but what about the ripped dude the in the commercial that recommended it both as a doctor and as someone who used it to great results?
Let see... They want to take Hydroxycut off the market but still keep all those pharmeceutical drugs on the market with about 8 million side-effects which include death. Makes perfect sense.
Well, I think that's the design of a lot of these weight loss products and/or workout products. They gotta pump you up just by their very nature, but you don't want to kill over either, that's... sorta bad for business as evidenced by ephedra. Speaking of that, why did they let ephedrine (not ephedra?) back on the market? Is it magically safe again or whatever was the deal on that?
wait, hydroxycut killed one person and it's recalled? while smoking is killing millions of people and I just got an email for 3 dollars off a carton!
I have a technique where I inject botox into my muscles. It makes me look like I've been working out when I haven't. You should see my biceps! Noone could even guess I got those from botox injections. P.S.: That's a joke! Don't even think about it!
Well, at least cigarettes pretty much tell you that you could die from taking them. I have no idea what hydroxycut says... Isn't this the product with that dingbat that comes on saying she hates everything about herself, so he tried it? I hated my stomach, I hated my thighs, I hated my dog, I hated my neighbor... lol. I always crack up when I hear her babbling like a 15 year old.
IIRC, that's because around 15 years ago Congress (thinking they were helping out the poor lowly vitamin farmer?) forbade the FDA from regulating "nutrititional supplements," until cases like the one above occurred. Then the FDA has to swoop in after the fact, once the danger has already been exhibited to be real (unlike the rigorous testing that goes on with actual, prescribed medicine). There is absolutely no truth in advertising with this junk, and it's a huge loophole that allows snake oil salesmen to sell sugar tablets (or poison) as legit. From the excellent documentary on steroids, Bigger, Faster, Stronger: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3mfQTiumsO4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3mfQTiumsO4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
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