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Many weight loss supplements have harmful ingredients, FDA says

Posted: December 23rd 2008 By editor1         under: Food and Fitness     Tags: , , , , ,

According to FDA, many weight loss supplements that are being marketed these days have such ingredients as can prove quite injurious to human health. Similarly many of these products have been found with those ingredients that are undeclared for human use.

There are many online and retail stores that selling these products with claims that they consist of 100% herbal and natural problems. But many of them have been found with different undeclared containments like carcinogen and an anti-seizure drug.

FDA reports its efforts to make food supplies safe in the US

Posted: December 2nd 2008 By editor1         under: Food and Fitness     Tags: , , , , ,

Recently, different circles have been criticizing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding its poor performance to make food supply in the U.S. safe. FDA responds to this criticism in a report that details its efforts to make food supplies safe and protect consumers.

Dr. David Acheson, who is assistant commissioner for food protection at the agency, says in this connection: “The agency’s proposal to develop better relationships with different local health departments and state regarding protecting food supply was one of the most important tasks that the agency worked for.”

“And the second big success is to make the strategic change regarding imports and this act can be called FDA’s globalization, and due to this we are shifting our intentions to inspect the foods items at the time of entry. Similarly, FDA is focused to develop such systems as may help to provide better understanding of what’s happening in foreign manufacturing.”

Salvia Divinorum as Healing Agent

Posted: November 18th 2008 By editor1         under: Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs     Tags: , , , , , ,

Anyone of us can see online videos showing people while using the hallucinogenic drug. In such videos you may notice that after the use of such drugs like salvia people may unable to talk and extremely disoriented within few seconds.

Videos like this can’t be an advertisement for the drug, which can be legally bought online. But some people who use salvia said the drug awake something inside them that is greater than them.

Healing property

It is this potential for good that have caught the interest of researchers, and salvia divinorum, whose side effects are still unknown, is one of hallucinogenic drugs, about which some scientists believe that it may have healing properties that overlap with the spiritual experiences.

In a study participants were given proscribed doses of “psilocybin”, the unique ingredient of magic mushrooms. Some volunteers experienced anxiety, initially, but after two months of regular use, most experience significant personal meaning and spiritual significance and positive changes in attitudes also clearly observed by the community.

After FDA approval psychiatric researchers use ecstasy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and noticed that many patients were able to diffuse fears that had left them almost disable.

“Philosophical experiences of unity with the cosmos…sometimes lead to some lasting benefits. Use of certain plants, herbs and chemicals may provide a legitimate and potentially safe way to reach such states.

A historic survey of salvia shows that, the herb was originally used by Mazatec shamans in Oaxaca, Mexico. In Western culture hallucinogenic a plant are associated with illegal drugs, but in many other cultures these plants are sacred and regarded as the key to another mystical world.

Globally admired, Hair Loss treatment

Posted: October 17th 2008 By editor1         under: Hair and Skin Care     Tags: , , , , ,

One can get easily confused and tricked by the emergence of abundant products for hair loss, both in men and women. Although hair loss is a natural phenomenon, which is associated with age, people, especially women use all means to keep up their appearances. According to an estimation, in U.S. 80 percent of men aged 35 to 65 years, suffer hair lose.

One of the most popular products, now a day available in market is Provillus. The following are the characteristics which had made it the best hair loss product.

Effective for both sexes

This product solves the problem for both, men and women separately. An essential ingredient Saw Palmetto, only found in men’s version (but not in women‘s version), could be potentially unsafe to unborn children.

Natural Remedy

Provillus aims to overturn the natural effects of hair loss, rather than providing temporary solution to the problem. Moreover, it attempts to do this, scientifically with natural ingredients. For natural hair loss, testosterone (a sex hormone) is responsible. This hormone when converted into dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and added to the enzyme 5-alpha reductase, ultimately cause atrophy of hair follicle causing thinning of hair, hair loss and stop the natural process of re-growth.

Salmonella outbreak has ‘apparently’ come to an end, CDC says.

Posted: August 29th 2008 By editor1         under: Health News     Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

According to CDC, the salmonella outbreak, which causes 1440 illnesses, has apparently come to an end in the country. The ultimate source of the disease may never be known because of somewhat defective food safety system in the country.

The Food and Drug Administration and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told that they had found strong evidence that jalapeno and Serrano peppers that produced in some farms in the Mexico were the real culprits in the largest outbreak of foodborne disease during a decade. Investigators couldn’t clear imported and domestic tomatoes and there were weaker evidence against the tomatoes.

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