pitfalls of herbal supplements

d. Ketogenic diets are currently being researched for the management of Alzheimer’s disease. e. Ketogenic diets are shown to improve triglyceride and cholesterol level. Who should be and who should not be on a ketogenic diet: The ketogenic diet isn’t a magic stick, you still need to count your calories and eat as much as nutritious food as with normal moderate carbohydrate

Dr. Michael Schafer an orthopedic surgeon reports that eighty percent of all athletes feel drugs are the only way to become a professional athlete. While seventy- seven percent of athletes are pressurized to use drugs in order to get ahead reports the Taylor Hooten Foundation. Many young athletes view many professional's like Barry Bonds, Brandon Browner, or Lance Armstrong as role models and will do anything to play like them. In fact that’s how sixty percent of them feel (Schafer). When Bonds, Browner or Armstrong are suspended for drug abuse, it does not deter young athletes instead it fuels them to take drugs and to not get caught.

Most drug manufacturers tend to argue that raising awareness of certain diseases helps to achieve an overall improvement in public health. “Lilly... ... middle of paper ... ...now that I am guilty myself of seeing ads on television or in magazines that make me wonder whether or not I need to be on it. Of course as luck would have it, when Lilly launched their drug Sarafem which is a drug to treat premenstrual disforic disorder or PMDD, I did seek the advice of my doctor just in part to the symptoms they listed. This is something that I suffered with for years and blamed it on my birth-control pills. Yes, I had those days when I looked in the mirror and wondered who was looking at me.

Instead of maintaining a balanced diet, most Americans would rather ingest a few pills. The prices, however, can range from affordable to thousands of dollars. Overall, Americans spend more than 10 billion dollars each year on vitamin supplements that they don’t even need, hoping that it would act like a barrier against some of the major chronic diseases. Vitamins are organic and non-caloric micro-nutrients that are essential to life. They are broken down into two major classifications: Fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) and Water-soluble vitamins (C, B).

Its active component “synephrine” is the ultimate appetite suppressant. It also increases your body’s metabolism for faster weight loss. 4) Guarana Extract- Comes from Guarana seed and contains caffeine. It can heighten the energy levels in a smoother way, unlike caffeine found in coffee. 5) Nicotinamide (B3) - Better known as niacin and is part of the vitamin B group.

In 1999, federal agents seized over two million dollars of illegal and counterfeit steroids. By making steroids legal, the FDA would be able to regulate them and therefore make it a safer product. Physicians would be able to do studies on the amount of steroids a body can handle and that would eliminate most of the steroid abuse (Moser and Aylor). Works Cited “A Guide for Understanding Steroids and Related Substances.” Steroid Abuse in Today’s Society. March 2004.

The Health Risk Associated with a Missing Ingredient in Bottled Water Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. * Henry Adams "We can’t change the bottled water industry, but we can change our own ignorance." –Paul W. Mason You may think that drinking bottled water is healthier than drinking tap water. However, according to a recent Dateline NBC top story on the quality of bottled water, this healthy move is not so healthy after all. Recently, a bottled water company in California was found to be bottling its brand of Yosemite water from a well in Fullerton, right below the LA freeway system (Verhovek 2).

In fact, he asserts, alcohol and tobacco are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year while marijuana has never killed anyone. (Lowry, 2004) So if the drug isn’t killing anyone, why is it still illegal? Major medical reasons that are supposivley caused by consuming marijuana are lung and brain damage and memory loss. It was found in a study that marijuana does not impair long term memory but can only cause short term memory loss while under the influence. Brain damage that does occur is not because of any chemical property in ganja, but because the brain is deprived of oxygen for so long that brain cells are killed.

Since 1946 over fifty percent of the population has supported marijuana legalization whether it is just medicinal or recreational as well. Marijuana users are less likely to be obese and have lower body mass index measurements (“Charlottes”…). There have been no effects to the immune responses, chromosomes, or cell metabolites in any chronic marijuana smokers (McGrath). There is also a reduced risk of becoming diabetic (“Charlottes”…).A three year old in Colorado was prescribed low THC dose marijuana to bring her epileptic seizers down from having multiple a day to maybe one a week (“Charlottes”…). There has yet to have been any documentation that marijuana causes emphysema or lung cancer (Hollister).

The FDA no longer approves the use of Redux or fen/phen, but new ingredients have made diet pills just as popular. An herb called ephedra is currently the most common substance in diet pills. Ephedra is still available for over the counter distribution, but the FDA is researching the side effects. Many cases of heart diseases and strokes have been linked to the herb. The use of diet pills is not recommended, but the advice does not stop many Americans.