Recent content by drezz1

I guess anything that gets people to exercise is a good thing, it's amazing how sedentary a lot of people in our society are.

If you knew anything about medicine, at all, you'd understand that the world of treatments is divided into two groups: medicine and quackery. There is no "alternative medicine." There is only what works and what doesn't. It doesn't matter if it's American, Chinese, or Klingon. Homeopathy is...

Homeopathy is such a load of pseudo-scientific BS, it's almost funny. I don't understand how people can buy into such obvious frauds.

This some kind of joke?

It's a complex chemical process and this product is bogus. Some beers age in the same way.

Too bad they aren't regulating red yeast rice, vitamin B6, etc. due to safety concerns, they're doing it because the pharmaceutical companies are telling them too. It's ludicrous.

That's a totally different topic. B6 isn't getting scrutiny because it's dangerous, it's getting scrutiny because someone decided to use it as an active ingredient in a pharmaceutical. Again, just to clarify: my beef is with regulating substances because the pharmaceutical companies asked them too.

It just seems that the FDA too readily capitulates to the industry it's supposed to regulate. Are they going to pull vitamins off the shelf because they are "tainted with pharmaceuticals"? They're supposed to protect the consumer, not the pharmaceutical company's collective wallet. I...

This sort of thing makes my blood boil: http://www.healthfreedom.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=677&Itemid= In September of 2005, Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) senior vice president of scientific and international affairs, John Hathcock, PhD, wrote a letter to the...