Hydroxycut - FDA says don't use it! Causes liver injuries.

[Silverbird]

[Note: Dietary supplements are not regulated, though they can be recalled if proven dangerous.]

The FDA said it has received 23 reports of serious liver injuries linked to Hydroxycut products, which are also used as energy enhancers and as fat burners.

The reports include the 2007 death of a 19-year-old male living in the Southwest, which was just reported to the FDA in March. Other serious liver problems reported included liver damage that resulted in a transplant in 2002, liver failure, jaundice, seizures and cardiovascular problems.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/01/hydroxycut.fda.recall/index.html

 

[Buster]

Well..guess it's back to bulimia again..

 

[Bullitt]

I'm not surprised. When I played college baseball a bunch of guys took that stuff before games. It was like a narcotic. They were wired and all charged up but they said it made them play better.

I've been waiting for the official FDA announcement on the harmful effects of Creatine, another big one, for years now.

 

[XL-entLady]

Yeah, then people will have to go back to the safe stuff ... like ephedra! :nuts:

Lady

 

[Viva_La_Migra]

The maker of Hydroxycut must not have contributed to the administration's campaign! This product is no more dangerous than Aspirin or Tylenol, imho. High dose or long term use of Tylenol is known to damage the kidneys, especially if alcohol is consumed while taking it. Aspirin has a laundry list of side effects and warnings on the labels. Why aren't these products being taken off the market?

Hydroxycut, like Metabolife, must work, because the government wants to take it off the shelf. Anything to get us more dependent on a government run healthcare system!

Once government run healthcare is established, they will attempt to ban all vitamin and mineral supplements. The pharmaceutical industry is already trying to downplay the effectiveness of supplements, by publishing "studies" showing that taking vitamins and minerals doesn't help you stay healthy. Only their drugs, which are largely derived from nature, will help heal you. Look at red yeast rice, which has been safely used for centuries by the chinese in various applications, but is not allowed to be sold in the U.S. in a certain potency, because the pharmaceutical industry (Merk) discovered that red yeast rice lowered cholesterol, and used it to produce the first statin drugs.

It's only a matter of time before the pharmaceutical industry successfully lobbies the administration to take supplements off the shelves.