Posted on 01/27/2015 10:56:56 PM PST by Mount Athos
The government is forcing one of Dr. Oz's favorite supplement peddlers to pay out $9 million to consumers after making deceptive and unsubstantiated claims about weight loss products.
In December, researchers writing in the British Medical Journal examined the health claims showcased on 40 randomly selected episodes of the two most popular internationally syndicated health talk shows, The Dr Oz Show and The Doctors.
What they found was disappointing but not exactly surprising: about half of the health recommendations had either no evidence behind them or they actually contradicted what the best-available science tells us.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Try living in big cities in bad neighborhoods. With bullets flying from feuding gangs.
For decent neighborhoods, kids are Vid game hooked.
For Senior’s like me, health in the form of spinal degeneration, OA, OP and exercising is not doable.
All you can do is control what you eat. All I have to do is look at a carb and I’d gain weight. I ate 1 small baked potato, half cup carrots and 3 slices of half a pork tenderloin. NO other food. This morning I was 1 lb heavier. Fluids were 3 cups black coffee, QT of power aid, and 2 natural detox drinks that I keep watering down as the day progresses until I’ve drank close to 3/4th gallon of fluids.
In my SIL’s case the man is a work-a-holic very active man. To much fast food.
They are now doing Botox injections for Gastroparesis to stop the nausea. GINGER Caps, lot cheaper and not a poison will do the same thing.
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