According to the Lipozene commercial, an 8 week study showed an average loss of almost 5lbs with twice daily use. More than 1lb of the loss was not body fat (muscle
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Yeah, the Atkins diet is "eat more vegetables and meat, and less bread, pasta, and stuff like that." I mean, it's really not the stupid crazy stuff that some people who THINK they're on Atkins do./
In any case, you should always ignore the "This product is not intended to Diagnose, Treat, Cure or Prevent Any Diseases" thing. That's just what you have to say if you're selling something that's supposed to be ingested that isn't food and hasn't been approved by the FDA. The DHEA that Lis needed to take for her body's inability to produce androgens had that label on it, and that was perscribed, on a perscription pad and everything by a real live MD with regular publications in peer-reviewed journals which got referenced in OTHER journal articles.
Durring the Induction Period, Atkins is pretty strict on veggies too, but that's only 2 weeks.
Guess I'm a little down on things being sold via television, without FDA approval, when they are made to effect body chemistry. Maybe I should look up the stated purpose of the FDA? Maybe this is a good example of me not being a hard core libertarian?
The FDA in recent years has managed to entirely fail to be useful for any of its designed purposes. I really like the idea of the FDA, as I am in no way a libertarian.
The problem is, when, over a period of time, the people in CHARGE of a large government with lots of oversight agencies ARE libertarians, they will attempt to make other people libertarians by instituting all the policies which they state libertarianism is designed to fix.
FTC, FCC, and BLM all seem to drop the ball more than they catch it. Though they do seem to do a decent job of stablizing the status quo, at least until they get caught doing it. BLM pissed me off a few years back with a case of selective enforcement (ref: Burningman).
I've honestly no idea which libertarians have been in charge of which regulatory organizations, though I generally support the idea of fewer laws and rigid enforcement of all the laws on the books. Make the legislature maintain the system not just bloat it; I mean, it's not like they're microsoft.
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In any case, you should always ignore the "This product is not intended to Diagnose, Treat, Cure or Prevent Any Diseases" thing. That's just what you have to say if you're selling something that's supposed to be ingested that isn't food and hasn't been approved by the FDA. The DHEA that Lis needed to take for her body's inability to produce androgens had that label on it, and that was perscribed, on a perscription pad and everything by a real live MD with regular publications in peer-reviewed journals which got referenced in OTHER journal articles.
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Durring the Induction Period, Atkins is pretty strict on veggies too, but that's only 2 weeks.
Guess I'm a little down on things being sold via television, without FDA approval, when they are made to effect body chemistry. Maybe I should look up the stated purpose of the FDA? Maybe this is a good example of me not being a hard core libertarian?
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The problem is, when, over a period of time, the people in CHARGE of a large government with lots of oversight agencies ARE libertarians, they will attempt to make other people libertarians by instituting all the policies which they state libertarianism is designed to fix.
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I've honestly no idea which libertarians have been in charge of which regulatory organizations, though I generally support the idea of fewer laws and rigid enforcement of all the laws on the books. Make the legislature maintain the system not just bloat it; I mean, it's not like they're microsoft.
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