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Mar 08, 2004: Get Sci Fit EPHEDRA products on a
Buy one, get one FREE sale! They won't last long. I've already contacted the people on my update list. Sci Fit has Hydroxycut clones and Xenadrine clones and more! Lots of new stuff. See the
Ephedra/Ephedrine Price Comparison page for all the details.
Mar 02, 2004: We have added brand listings to the
vitamin price comparison. Although the categories are better for comparing similar products, the
brand listings eliminate the guesswork of figuring out what category a particular product is listed under. Some of the bodybuilding products are particularly hard to categorize.
Of course, with the ephedra ban, I will be writing about the alternatives. Judging from my emails, I need to start a "Current Recommendations" page for the different supplements. I've heard people say that the ephedra ban is no big deal because you can still buy mini thins (ephedrine hcl), but frankly I doubt it will stay on the market
much longer. As I wrote in
the beta-3 scandal, cheap OTC thermogenics will be
removed or moved to prescription-only
status (see 1,
2,
3) to ensure windfall profits for the upcoming prescription beta-3 thermogenic drugs. Good luck finding a doctor willing to prescribe the 'dangerous' reclassified
ephedrine -- especially for an unapproved use like weight loss.
In addition, the drug warriors want to get rid of ephedrine hcl and pseudoephedrine cold medicines because they can be used to make methamphetamine. If you are going to try to stock up, do not go into a store and buy more than one
package of ephedrine at a time. Do not bring a bunch of friends with you thinking they can each buy one
box. If you try this, they will get your license plate and report you as a possible meth dealer. It
is hard to believe that people actually go along with this police state stuff, but they do.
Unfortunately, the spirit of Nazi Germany is alive and well. As a Wal-Mart co-manager bragged to the press:
"Our associates are willing to do anything to help police and the
community."
Apparently, this co-manager does not realize that trampling a persons rights
for the 'greater good' does nothing more than create a "community" composed of individuals whose rights have been trampled. Of course,
his collectivist thinking is the exact opposite of the principles that America once held dear:
"...the Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively." -Walter Lippmann
Supplements Are Under Attack Domestically And Internationally
Much more than thermogenics are in danger, and if people don't wake up and get politically active, the government is going to ban and regulate us to death. My views on pending legislation are somewhat different than the supplement
industry (I oppose them all), so I will give you a quick rundown. Remember the people sponsoring this nasty legislation and vote them out of
office:
S. 1780 - Anabolic Steroid Control Act of
2003:
This bill will waste millions of tax dollars by expanding the insane war
on drugs to include androstenedione and related supplements. It should be called the Hurt Athletes
And Aging Men Act. Much of the supplement industry and Senator Orrin Hatch have sold us out by supporting
this bill. Only principled Libertarians can be trusted when health freedom and the drug war collide. This might be a good thing to remember at election time.
S. 1538 - DSHEA Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of
2003:
Most of the supplement industry supports this bill to give FDA more money because the FDA says they need more money to properly implement the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). This is pure BS -- the FDA has fought the DSHEA every step of the way. This bill is the equivalent of giving money to the Klu Klux Klan to implement affirmative action legislation. Lets face it: if the FDA gets more money, they will just cause more trouble. Instead of going along with this charade, the entire supplement industry should
tell people about the harm caused by the FDA's biased politics. Honesty is our ONLY defense.
S. 722 - Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003: The lies about thermogenic supplements worked so well that the government wants even more power to scare soccer moms and ban supplements.
Both S. 722 and H.R. 3377 are despicable attempts to thwart the will of the people by sneaking around the popular Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.
H.R. 3377 - Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act: Despite the fact that peanuts kill more people every year
than ALL dietary supplements combined, politicians want to spend millions of tax dollars on this supplement witch hunt. And, yes,
the numbers include ephedra because the FDA's extremely dubious 150 or so ephedra deaths occurred over about a seven year period. Peanuts killed roughly 700 people during that time period.
(Note: After attempting to rule out other factors, the Rand study only found a couple of fatalities that *may* have been related to ephedra. But no matter how you look at it, ephedra is MUCH safer than peanuts or countless OTC drugs.)
Do you disagree with the ephedra ban and all this nasty anti-supplement legislation?
Email the FDA: druginfo@cder.fda.gov
Contact Politicians: EFF contact
page.
The New York Times: letters@nytimes.com
USA Today: editor@usatoday.com
The Houston Chronicle: viewpoints@chron.com
The San Francisco Chronicle: letters@sfchronicle.com
The Los Angeles Times: letters@latimes.com
The Chicago Tribune: ctc-TribLetter@Tribune.com
The Washington Post: letters@washpost.com
Newsday: letters@newsday.com
The New York Daily News: voicers@edit.nydailynews.com
The New York Post: letters@nypost.com
The Wall Street Journal: wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
Be sure to include your name, address and phone number. Editors need to call you to verify authorship before they will print your letter. They won't print your phone number.
Learn about the international threat to supplements and how it affects Americans!
If you think supplements are dangerous, check out the dangers of bread!
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"both necessary and ethically justified."
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studies! But what would Sun Tzu (author of "The Art Of War") think about using
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New Links
Libertarian
Nation Foundation
The purpose of the Libertarian Nation Foundation is to advance the day when
coercive institutions of government can be replaced by voluntary
institutions of civil mutual consent.
Death
By Medicine
Conventional medicine does a lot of good, but this research on the harm it
causes is scary in the extreme. As the article says "No one had ever analyzed and combined ALL of the published literature dealing with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine. That has now changed."
Truth: the
Anti-Drugwar
This is a great site! Every taxpayer should check out the charts and statistics and learn the truth about the drug war.
Alliance For Natural Health
FDAReview.org
If you think for one second that the FDA's absurdly expensive and glacially-slow
drug approval process saves lives, you should read the research cited on this
website which shows that the net effect is the loss of many thousands of
lives each year.
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