THERE ARE ADS FOR PRODUCTS EVERY DAY TELLING YOU ABOUT THEIR MAGIC
1. Pills that speed your metabolism can be very dangerous. They can cause you to hallucinate, or have a racing heartbeat and bulging eyes.
2. At a Belgian weight loss clinic several years ago, they used a Chinese herb called Aristolochia. Within three years, more than 100 subjects had kidney damage and needed to go on dialysis or get kidney transplants. Ten years after taking the pills many developed urinary tract cancer.
The message: IT CAN BE DANGEROUS TO EXPERIMENT WITH DIET PILLS.
3. Several years ago, Robert Linn, an Osteopath, gave his patients a near-fast product called Prolinn, which consisted of plain meat or fish. It turned out that the ingredients included ground-up animal hides, tendons, and bones which were useless slaughter house byproducts that were cooked into a gooey pinkish syrup and flavored with large amounts of artificial cherry, orange or pineapple to disguise the cowhide taste. This liquid formula was soon available in drug stores across the United States. By the time that 4,000,000 Americans tried this product the FDA began to receive reports that many people were dying of heart attacks after several weeks on the diet.
MY MESSAGE IS THAT IF YOU ARE TEMPTED TO PURCHASE ANY DIETING PRODUCTS THAT YOU SEE ADVERTISED IN WOMEN'S MAGAZINES OR NEWSPAPERS CHECK WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN, NOT A DIET DOCTOR, AND GET HIS OPINION.
Note: Not all of these products are dangerous, but many are...
1. Pills that speed your metabolism can be very dangerous. They can cause you to hallucinate, or have a racing heartbeat and bulging eyes.
2. At a Belgian weight loss clinic several years ago, they used a Chinese herb called Aristolochia. Within three years, more than 100 subjects had kidney damage and needed to go on dialysis or get kidney transplants. Ten years after taking the pills many developed urinary tract cancer.
The message: IT CAN BE DANGEROUS TO EXPERIMENT WITH DIET PILLS.
3. Several years ago, Robert Linn, an Osteopath, gave his patients a near-fast product called Prolinn, which consisted of plain meat or fish. It turned out that the ingredients included ground-up animal hides, tendons, and bones which were useless slaughter house byproducts that were cooked into a gooey pinkish syrup and flavored with large amounts of artificial cherry, orange or pineapple to disguise the cowhide taste. This liquid formula was soon available in drug stores across the United States. By the time that 4,000,000 Americans tried this product the FDA began to receive reports that many people were dying of heart attacks after several weeks on the diet.
MY MESSAGE IS THAT IF YOU ARE TEMPTED TO PURCHASE ANY DIETING PRODUCTS THAT YOU SEE ADVERTISED IN WOMEN'S MAGAZINES OR NEWSPAPERS CHECK WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN, NOT A DIET DOCTOR, AND GET HIS OPINION.
Note: Not all of these products are dangerous, but many are...
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