Warning!!! = hydroxycut...

[Eureka]

My sister called and told me about this today when I got home from the gym..Now, I just read this on another board..

FDA warns dieters: Stop Hydroxycut use immediately

WASHINGTON – Government health officials warned dieters and body builders Friday to immediately stop using Hydroxycut, a widely sold supplement linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least one death.

The Food and Drug Administration said the maker of the dietary supplement has agreed to recall 14 Hydroxycut products. Available in grocery stores and pharmacies, Hydroxycut is advertised as made from natural ingredients. At least 9 million packages were sold last year, the FDA said.

Dr. Linda Katz of the FDA's food and nutrition division said the agency has received 23 reports of liver problems, including the death of a 19-year-old boy living in the Southwest. The teenager died in 2007, and the death was reported to the FDA this March.

Other patients experienced symptoms ranging from jaundice, or yellowing of the skin, to liver failure. One received a transplant and another was placed on a list to await a new liver.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S. distributor of the diet pill, Iovate Health Sciences, headquartered near Buffalo, N.Y. Made by a Canadian company, Hydroxycut is used by people trying to shed pounds and by body builders to sharpen their muscles.

Dietary supplements aren't as tightly regulated by the government as medications. Manufacturers don't need to prove to the FDA that their products are safe and effective before they can sell them to consumers. But regulators monitor aftermarket reports for signs of trouble, and in recent years companies have been put under stricter requirements to alert the FDA when they learn of problems.

Katz said it has taken so long to get a handle on the Hydroxycut problem because the cases of liver damage were rare and the FDA has no authority to review supplements before they're marketed. "Part of the problem is that the FDA looks at dietary supplements from a post-market perspective, and an isolated incident is often difficult to follow," she said.

The FDA relies on voluntary reports to detect such problems, and many cases are never reported, officials acknowledge.

Health officials said they have been unable to determine which Hydroxycut ingredients are potentially toxic, partially because the formulation of the products has changed several times. A medical journal report last month raised questions about one ingredient, hydroxycitric acid, derived from a tropical fruit. The article said it could potentially damage the liver.

[shotgun]

Damn thats sone unreal shit but of course gear is illegal f.d.a. Has always had there head up there ass'es a bunch buerocratic bullshit

[davidbl769]

it's all over the news. can cause liver damadge.

[rray8028]

I used 2 take it over 2 years ago n I got real sick on it so I had stop takin it I am glad they r finally doin somethin bout it now

[WetWorks]

I doubt it really is causing the problems the FDA is saying . but Hydroxycuts is total shit compared to when they first started it back in the 90's .

[SweatyApe]

Originally Posted by WetWorks

I doubt it really is causing the problems the FDA is saying . but Hydroxycuts is total shit compared to when they first started it back in the 90's .

yea it didnt ever do shit for me, they should have gotten them for false advertisment aloooong time about- i hate muscletech

[rray8028]

Yeah muscletech got the worst products waste of money

[Wiggonator]

9 million packages sold......................one death..................better chance at winning the lottery than ya got at dieing....lol.................the one death was probably some fat kid with a self esteem problem.and took way more than is advised..............way more........

Fast-Food Liver Damage Can Be Reversed, Experts Say
ScienceDaily (May 2, 2008) — Diets high in fast food can be highly toxic to the liver and other internal organs, but that damage can be reversed, says one of the country’s leading experts on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, who offers four steps to undo the effects of a 'super-size me' diet.







It was probably enough to make many Americans lose their appetite: A recent study from Europe showed that eating too much fast food – a diet high in fat and sugar – could cause serious damage to your liver.

Yet for those who overdo it with too many trips to their favorite burger joint, there’s good news. You can likely reverse the damage to your liver and other vital organs if you simply give up the unhealthy lifestyle, according to a leading liver specialist at Saint Louis University who conducted a similar study with mice.

“There’s strong evidence now that a fast-food type of diet – high in fat and sugar, the kind of diet many Americans subsist on – can cause significant damage to your liver and have extremely serious consequences for your health,” says Brent Tetri, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the Saint Louis University Liver Center and one of the country’s leading experts on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

“The good news is that most people can undo this damage if they change their diet and they keep physically active,” Tetri says. “If they don’t, however, they are asking for trouble.”

Particularly alarming, says Tetri, is that physicians are starting to see children and teenagers with cirrhosis, a serious liver disease once seen mostly in adults with a history of alcohol abuse or hepatitis C. Tetri suspects this is because many kids today eat far too much fast food or junk food and get far too little exercise – the kind of behaviors that can lead to liver damage.

“The fact we’re starting to see kids with liver disease should really be a wake-up call for anyone eating a diet high in fat and sugar and who’s not physically active,” Tetri says.

Tetri last year studied the effects on mice of a diet that mimicked a typical fast-food meal. The diet was 40 percent fat and replete with high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener common in soda and some fruit juices. The mice were also kept sedentary, mimicking the lifestyle of millions of Americans.

The result: Within four weeks, the mice displayed an increase in liver enzymes – a key indicator of liver damage – and the beginnings of glucose intolerance, a marker for type II diabetes.

Similarly, in February researchers in Sweden published the results of a study in which 18 healthy and slim adults ate fast food and restricted their physical activity for a month. The result: an average weight gain of 12 pounds and, within as little as a week, a sharp rise in liver enzymes.

Tetri is quick to emphasize that fast food per se doesn’t causes liver damage. Rather, he says, the harm comes from eating too many calories and too much fat and sugar – which happens with a steady diet of burgers, fries, sodas and most other items on the typical fast-food menu.

“The big issue here is caloric content,” says Tetri. “You can put away 2,000 calories in a single fast-food meal pretty easily. For most people, that’s more calories than they need in an entire day.”

For adults and children who’ve repeatedly indulged in fast food, Tetri urges four key steps to help reverse the damage they’ve done to their liver.

Limit yourself to no more than one fast-food meal a week. For some people, that’s going to be a major downshift. But for the sake of your health, a visit to a fast-food restaurant should be considered a treat – not a regular event.
When you do eat fast food, eat as healthfully as possible. Try the burger without mayo and cheese, and avoid fries and sugary soft drinks. Better yet, go for a grilled chicken sandwich, a salad with a lower-fat dressing and bottled water or a diet soft drink.
Get active. If you don’t already exercise at least three times a week, start now. Regular exercise helps keep your weight down and helps your body better metabolize and process the food you eat.
Ask your doctor to do a blood test to check your level of liver enzymes, a key measure of the health of your liver. Many doctors now order test this routinely when doing blood work on adults, but kids who eat a lot of fast food especially need to have their liver enzymes checked.
“Even for those people with the worst kind of diets, it’s not too late to start exercising and eating right,” Tetri says.

Accutane Liver
One of the many side effects accutane possesses is the damage to the liver. Therefore, your dermatologist continuously monitors your liver while you are under accutane treatment and if he finds that your liver is suffering by the use of accutane, he asks you to discontinue accutane.



Some accutane users have been reported to have developed clinical hepatitis as well as elevated levels of liver enzymes which are signs of liver damage.

Many doctors say that simply discontinuing accutane treatment does not necessarily correct this problem. They suggest that whatever damage liver suffers by the use of accutane may be permanent.



Due to quite a big number of evidences of liver damage in accutane users, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required Hoffman La Roche, the manufacturer of accutane, to include the following in the Accutane warning labels:

�Clinical hepatitis considered to be possibly or probably related to Accutane therapy has been reported. Additionally, mild to moderate elevations of liver enzymes have been observed in approximately 15% of individuals treated during clinical trials, some of which normalized with dosage reduction or [normalized while continuing to take the drug.�

The side effects associated with accutane are so serious that FDA has recently ordered to include a Medguide explaining all side effects with the sale of every dose of accutane. There are only two other drugs that are required to sell with a Medguide by FDA.

An excerpt from the FDA Medguide is in the following with regard to the liver damage by accutane:

�Symptoms [of Accutane usage] may mean that your internal organs are being damaged. These organs include the liver, pancreas, bowel (intestines), and esophagus (connection between mouth and stomach). If your organs are damaged, they may not get better even after you stop taking Accutane.�

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alcohol-related causes such as liver disease and car crashes account for nearly 12 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native deaths, 3-1/2 times the figure for the overall population, officials said on Thursday.

Excessive drinking has long been a problem in these often-impoverished populations, as reflected in what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called the first national report tracking such alcohol-related deaths.

"Hopefully this serves as a constructive wake-up call not only for tribal communities but for the national government and state governments as well," Dr. Tim Naimi of the CDC and the U.S. government's Indian Health Service, one of the researchers involved in the report, said in a telephone interview.

CDC researchers analyzed death certificate data from 2001 to 2005. In that period, an average of 1,514 American Indians and Alaska Natives died due to alcohol-related causes a year.

Alcohol-related deaths accounted for 11.7 percent of the deaths of American Indians and Alaska Natives, compared to 3.3 percent in the U.S. general population, the CDC said.

I guess my point is....You dont see the FDA Taking Big macs, Accutane, and Alcohol off the market.....and there is millions of deaths related to those..but one death with this hydroxycut, and they are all in a panick......i think they just dont make enough money on the hydroxycut..Lord knows they make a killing on the sales of Alcohol, fast food restaurant taxes, and prescript drugs !....

Peace ~wig~

[Replicator]

Originally Posted by davidbl769

it's all over the news. can cause liver damadge.

so does Alcohol D ...but aint it weird how they dont stop that being made ...........as with alcohol no doubt it is being abused like 10 times the recommended dose or somthing.
Bloody annoys me sometimes ...I remember the holy outcry here in the UK when a kid died of ecstacy ,, ... in the news and all the papers .......second death in 6 months it said ...................guess what was forgotten about ...the 76 A DAY that die as a direct result of Alcohol.
yes m8 its a funny old world

[Eureka]

Originally Posted by Replicator

so does Alcohol D ...but aint it weird how they dont stop that being made ...........as with alcohol no doubt it is being abused like 10 times the recommended dose or somthing.
Bloody annoys me sometimes ...I remember the holy outcry here in the UK when a kid died of ecstacy ,, ... in the news and all the papers .......second death in 6 months it said ...................guess what was forgotten about ...the 76 A DAY that die as a direct result of Alcohol.
yes m8 its a funny old world

The worst is cigarettes!!!! Over 400,000 people die a year in the U.S. alone The U.S. had the worse proccessing for tobacco. Australia's number arent nearly has high. They procces differently..

[powerman]

Originally Posted by SweatyApe

yea it didnt ever do shit for me, they should have gotten them for false advertisment aloooong time about- i hate muscletech

Originally Posted by rray8028

Yeah muscletech got the worst products waste of money

If the retards at Muscletech spent 1/2 as much on developing REAL products as they do on advertising then someday they may have a product worth buying..EVERYTHING they make is crap

[FlaBouy]

LOL... this thread is funny to me... bunch of studs sitting around shooting up stuff that is 1000 times worse on the liver than this garbage, and debating why the FDA is yanking it from public consumption...

Am I the only one to see the irony here?

[Under-Radar]

Originally Posted by FlaBouy

LOL... this thread is funny to me... bunch of studs sitting around shooting up stuff that is 1000 times worse on the liver than this garbage, and debating why the FDA is yanking it from public consumption...

Am I the only one to see the irony here?

Please explain ur post if you dont mined brother. Im not sure if you are agaist stimulants, staeroids or FDA approved cigarettes /liqour

[FlaBouy]

Nothing to explain... I just find life funny sometimes... Irony is found in strange places...

I am not against supplements, stimulants, "staeroids", cigarette's or liquor. I am a Libertarian at heart, and last time I checked, we fought for the personal freedoms this country affords it's citizens. I believe a person should be able to consume anything they choose to consume without the Feds intervention. Hope that clears up that confusion...

What I find ironic is the concern that Hydroxycut poses a threat to the liver in some cases under normal dosage, and that is a concern among certain people.

I would think that most folks on these boards willingly take substances that are a 1000 times more threat to the liver than what Hydroxycut ever will be, or so I hear since I have never taken Hydroxycut.

That is where my perception of the irony lies... The Feds are regulating us to death. They decide what is good for us and ban what they think is not. I suspect anyone with half a brain could figure out liquor and cigarettes kill more people per year, and cost the taxpayer more money for healthcare than any other single item I know. And yet, in the Feds wisdom, they are legal. Ask yourself, why is that?

And then sit back with me and enjoy the irony...

[Under-Radar]

Wow I am with you all the way brother. LListen I undertstood your post in the beginning; but like to always have a person explain in depth because their are others on board that needs to hear it like it is and thats what you told them. I appreciate it.

[FlaBouy]

I say we ban the Feds.....

They work for us and we pay their salary, right?

[basiclute009]

currently sewing them for Milion$