FDA WARNING: FDA warned consumers to immediately stop using
Hydroxycut products by Iovate Health Sciences, Inc., because they
are associated with serious liver injuries. Hydroxycut products are
dietary supplements that are marketed for weight-loss, as fat
burners, as energy-enhancers, as low carb diet aids, and for water
loss under the Iovate and MuscleTech brand names. FDA has received
23 reports of serious health problems among Hydroxycut users,
ranging from jaundice and elevated liver enzymes, an indicator of
potential liver injury, to liver damage requiring liver
transplants. One death due to liver failure has been reported to
FDA. Other health problems reported include seizures;
cardiovascular disorders; and rhabdomyolysis, a type of muscle
damage that can lead to other serious health problems such as
kidney failure. The agency has not yet determined which
ingredients, dosages, or other health-related factors may be
associated with risks related to these Hydroxycut products. FDA
continues to investigate the potential relationship between
Hydroxycut dietary supplements and liver injury or other
potentially serious side effects.
Iovate Health Sciences of Oakville, Ontario, Canada is the
manufacturer. It has agreed to recall all Hydroxycut products. The
company reports that more than 9 million units of Hydroxycut
products were sold in 2008 in health food stores, grocery stores
and pharmacies.
Litigation:
Many law firms are now investigating potential claims that may be
filed on behalf of victims who have suffered severe injuries as a
result of taking Hydroxycut.
If you or a loved one have suffered liver damage, or experienced
seizures; cardiovascular disorders; or rhabdomyolysis, a type of
muscle damage that can lead to other serious health problems such
as kidney failure, after taking Hydroxycut and you wish to learn
more about your rights, please fill out the contact form and an
experienced DrugSettlement.com attorney or representative will call
you for a free and confidential evaluation of your claim.
For more information regarding the
Hydroxycut
recall, visit the DrugSettlement.com website!
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Besides eating balanced diets regularly, a body builder needs to
add supplements to the diet to fully cater for all body's
nutritional needs. There are some nutrients like minerals and
proteins that are not easily available in natural meals that may be
accessible to a body builder. Others are only found in limited
quantities in their natural food sources. As such although
naturally nutritious foods are the key to body building dieting,
appropriate supplementation is called for to augment the needs of a
body builder.
One of the most mistakes that body builders live with is lack of a
proper balance between food and supplements. Either one eats
natural foods and takes supplements forgranted, or one takes excess
supplements to replace foods in the diet. None of the two can stand
in for the other and none can be replaced with the other, if
optimal growth in muscle mass and strength is to be achieved and
achieved quickly.
Imbalances of food ands supplements are rampant in body building
mainly because of ignorance in which most body builders are
submerged deep under. Consuming food by itself is not adequate to
fully cover all nutritional needs of a body builder, especially if
such a body builder is in the intensive levels of body building
training. If we consider the term "balanced eating" as it is
defined by several nutritionists the meaning construed isn't the
same as that of the term "balanced eating" as it is defined by
muscle building elites.
Optimally, balanced feeding as defined by the body building elite
refers to a skillful balanced blending of some lean proteins,
starchy foods, fibrous complex carbohydrates, minute amounts of
safe fats and absolutely no sugars. The rationing and or
proportional divisions of these nutrients usually vary according to
individual characteristics and body building objectives. Some body
builders are hyper-sensitive to carbohydrates and therefore need to
keep the starchy carbohydrates at their barest minimum. Others must
limit their consumption of proteins or else they puff up like
balloons. Still others, the daily diet is merely potatoes and white
or brown rice and little of everything else.
Supplements become more important for these individuals who have to
limit the intake of natural foods in the diet for specific healthy
reasons. From another angle, individual differences occur due to
metabolic distinctions. How individuals metabolize their food is
individualistic as genes are. Foods and supplements should be taken
in consideration of how different foods affect the individual's
metabolism. The modern rule of thumb recommended in balancing the
diet in a proportional ration is to eat a diet constituting 50%
carbohydrate calories, 35% protein calories and 15% fat calories.
The 50c-35p-15f regimen should be monitored and adjusted if need
be. If these rations are not achieved in the foods, then
supplements should respectively argument the dietary needs.
Remember that supplements aid in sealing the little holes and or
shortcomings of a body builder's diet. Supplements only supplement,
they accompany, they complete the puzzle, and they fill in gaps.
They should never be taken as replacements of the dietary
requirements in natural foods. Misuse has lead to most natural body
builders fearing supplements like they do steroids which is wrong.
A multitask, protein powder, carbohydrate powder, beef liver tabs,
sodium powder and other supplements usually work wonders especially
for recuperation, intense training, and defining physique features.
But they should serve as supplements not the diet.
Dane Fletcher is the world-wide authority on
bodybuilding
and
steroids. He has coached countless athletes all over
the world. To read more of his work, please visit either
http://www.BodybuildingToday.com or http://www.SteroidsToday.com
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