U.S. adults have been getting steadily fatter over the last few decades. We’ve even managed to let our kids join the obesity trend.
But when I heard that Pfizer, Inc., introduced an injectable diet drug for dogs last month, I saw red.
Updated Consumer Warning as of approximately 4:45PM Eastern Time on June 1, 2007:
The U.S. government has issued a warning to consumers. Avoid all toothpaste made in China. It may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze called diethylene glycol, or DEG.
If you own toothpaste that is labelled as made in China, throw it away. Chinese toothpaste is most often sold at bargain stores.
According to the FDA news release, here are at least some of the brands that the warning applies to: Cooldent Fluoride; Cooldent Spearmint; Cooldent ICE; Dr. Cool, Everfresh Toothpaste; Superdent Toothpaste; Clean Rite Toothpaste; Oralmax Extreme; Oral Bright Fresh Spearmint Flavor; Bright Max Peppermint Flavor; ShiR Fresh Mint Fluoride Paste; DentaPro; DentaKleen; and DentaKleen Junior.
The entire FDA News Release can be found at:
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01646.html
Original post below:
Tainted pet food killed or sickened many dogs and cats in the U.S. earlier this year. The lethal ingredient was wheat flour contaminated with melamine, a chemical used in plastics.
The FDA traced the source of this contamination to 2 companies in China.
Now there’s growing concern that the problem has moved beyond pet food. To imported products used by humans.
At least one man has been sentenced to die.
A recent study suggests you may die from prolonged use of a low-carb diet. To be precise, you’ll have a greater chance of dying with a low-carb diet.
You may have heard that the ad campaigns suggesting milk can help you lose weight are ending. But did you hear about the spots?
Do you trust a medication more if a celebrity endorses it through advertising?
Should the celebrity be held accountable for all claims about the drug, even those not made in his ad?
The latest controversy concerns Dr. Robert Jarvik, who designed the Jarvik-7 artificial heart. He stars in print and TV ads for Pfizer’s popular anti-cholesterol drug, Lipitor.
Dr. Jarvik has been subpoenaed in a lawsuit by several labor unions.
Sounds good, but how does it taste? And does it really work?
In another example of functional foods — which are foods that provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition — The Heart Healthy Road Pizza may soon roll out to your grocer’s shelves or your local pizzeria.
If they agree to distribute this new product.
The headline du jour on all the diet news stories is: “Diets Don’t Work.”
Instead, they say you should eat less and exercise more.
Huh? Isn’t that a diet?
New research suggests the heart isn’t responsible for high blood pressure. The brain is.
British researchers have found that people with a variation of something called the FTO gene have a greater chance of becoming obese.
But is this truly an explanation for the obesity epidemic?
Or is everyone just looking for an excuse to shift the blame from our poor eating and exercise habits?
You gotta love the government’s strategy to help us “eat healthy.”
City after city in the U.S. has banned trans fats like they’re trying to protect us. Of course, they neglect to tell us that trans fats are being replaced mostly by a type of fat that could be even worse.
But I’ve already blogged about that in Ban Trans Fats, Increase Diabetes?
Clogging your arteries is so yesterday.
No, today I’d like to talk about the dunderheads who decided it was healthy to put arsenic in our food.