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Archive for March, 2010
Acai Radiance Review
Mar 17th
The most common problem that develops due to wrong food habits is cellulite. Junk food and oily food generally comprises toxins and parasites that harm our body. This wastage clogs your colon, giving rise to numerous health problems like gas, constipation and heart stroke. If this stored matter is not expelled from your body in proper time then it may result in weight gain or obesity.
Excess accumulation of fat in your body not only makes you distend and dull, but accelerates aging. There are various types of medications that claim to treat overweight, but none of them prove fruitful. However, with the discovery of Acai Radiance we have been able to carve a niche in the health industry.
As the name suggests Acai Radiance chiefly comprises acai berry. This berry is rich in vitamin E & C and polyphenols. These elements are potent anti-oxidants that fight against disease causing bacteria. This super fruit of Brazil cleans and detoxifies your body and colon.
This health supplement also contains high level of fiber and amino acid contents. These natural contents neutralize free radicals to promote a glowing, healthy skin. It not only flattens your abs, but rejuvenates your mind and body.
The ingredients of this product energize and revitalize your body naturally. This causes weight loss by burning those extra flabs that emerge around your thighs, lower back and abdominal area. The anti-oxidant property of this health product fights cancer, heart, digestive and Alzheimer’s diseases.
The striking features of this nutritious fruit have always been a sizzling topic for many famous media channels such as NBC, ABC, CNN and Fox News.
This supplement is a complete health solution that offers tremendous health benefits to your body. It is a highly recommended dietary supplement that accounts for purity and high performance all over the world.
By: Brenda Cameron
Excess accumulation of fat in your body not only makes you distend and dull, but accelerates aging. There are various types of medications that claim to treat overweight, but none of them prove fruitful. However, with the discovery of Acai Radiance we have been able to carve a niche in the health industry.
As the name suggests Acai Radiance chiefly comprises acai berry. This berry is rich in vitamin E & C and polyphenols. These elements are potent anti-oxidants that fight against disease causing bacteria. This super fruit of Brazil cleans and detoxifies your body and colon.
This health supplement also contains high level of fiber and amino acid contents. These natural contents neutralize free radicals to promote a glowing, healthy skin. It not only flattens your abs, but rejuvenates your mind and body.
The ingredients of this product energize and revitalize your body naturally. This causes weight loss by burning those extra flabs that emerge around your thighs, lower back and abdominal area. The anti-oxidant property of this health product fights cancer, heart, digestive and Alzheimer’s diseases.
The striking features of this nutritious fruit have always been a sizzling topic for many famous media channels such as NBC, ABC, CNN and Fox News.
This supplement is a complete health solution that offers tremendous health benefits to your body. It is a highly recommended dietary supplement that accounts for purity and high performance all over the world.
By: Brenda Cameron
The Truth About Andro and What You Need To Know Part 1
Mar 12th
On October 8th, 2004 after months of delays and political maneuvering, the US Senate passed Senate Bill 2195 also called the “Andro Ban” This bill was signed into law by President Bush. This new law made it illegal to manufacture or buy most of the supplements we have all known as “andro”. As of January 2005, all of these products were deemed illegal for sale or possession.
What Exactly Is “Andro”?
The term “andro” is a very loose term that was used to describe a large selection of what are known as prohormones or steroid precursors.
When taken, these products convert into testosterone via an enzymatic pathway in the liver. Elevated levels of testosterone can lead to increased strength and muscle mass.
The first andro supplement that most people became aware of was Androstene (androstedione). This was the supplement that Mark McGwire had sitting in his locker that pretty much started the whole concern in major league baseball about supplements. After Androstene, another “andro” product called AndroDiol (androstenediol) became very popular because it was much more anabolic and had fewer side effects.
As the supplement industry progressed, these prohormones became more and more potent to where they were basically legal steroids.
While there were many brands and different compounds, most guys still referred to all of these prohormones as “andro”.
What Did This New Law Do To Andro?
When the new law was signed by President Bush, it basically made all prohormones illegal. Items such as Andro Poppers, Nor-Andro, 1-AD, Methyl 1-Test (M1T) and others were banned and all of the companies who made these “andro” items stopped production.
But I’ve Seen Supplements Being Sold That Still Sound Like Andro
True. Shortly after the President signed the law into effect, most of the companies who made these products quickly started to develop new products that were legal. The law listed many ingredients that were declared illegal so the manufacturers simply found new ingredients that were not on the list
Some of these products became even more potent and anabolic than the items that were banned! However, once again the FDA declared these new products illegal and they too have been discontinued. Items like Superdrol, Methyl 1-P and Masterdrol are also out of stock and no longer sold by almost everyone.
Okay, So What Is Left To Take That Will Help Me Get Bigger?
At this time there are currently a very few items that would be considered “andro” that are still legal. These will also probably be banned as well in the near future and are all in very limited supply. Items such as Methyl 1-Alpha, Methyl 1-D and Phera-Plex are all fairly anabolic supplements that many online retailers still have limited amounts of however many of these items have already been discontinued by their respective manufacturers so supplies are limited virtually everywhere.
So What Else Is Out There To Help Me Build Muscle?
In the second part of this series I’ll help you get through the hype and confusion regarding other supplements.
By: Mike Berg
What Exactly Is “Andro”?
The term “andro” is a very loose term that was used to describe a large selection of what are known as prohormones or steroid precursors.
When taken, these products convert into testosterone via an enzymatic pathway in the liver. Elevated levels of testosterone can lead to increased strength and muscle mass.
The first andro supplement that most people became aware of was Androstene (androstedione). This was the supplement that Mark McGwire had sitting in his locker that pretty much started the whole concern in major league baseball about supplements. After Androstene, another “andro” product called AndroDiol (androstenediol) became very popular because it was much more anabolic and had fewer side effects.
As the supplement industry progressed, these prohormones became more and more potent to where they were basically legal steroids.
While there were many brands and different compounds, most guys still referred to all of these prohormones as “andro”.
What Did This New Law Do To Andro?
When the new law was signed by President Bush, it basically made all prohormones illegal. Items such as Andro Poppers, Nor-Andro, 1-AD, Methyl 1-Test (M1T) and others were banned and all of the companies who made these “andro” items stopped production.
But I’ve Seen Supplements Being Sold That Still Sound Like Andro
True. Shortly after the President signed the law into effect, most of the companies who made these products quickly started to develop new products that were legal. The law listed many ingredients that were declared illegal so the manufacturers simply found new ingredients that were not on the list
Some of these products became even more potent and anabolic than the items that were banned! However, once again the FDA declared these new products illegal and they too have been discontinued. Items like Superdrol, Methyl 1-P and Masterdrol are also out of stock and no longer sold by almost everyone.
Okay, So What Is Left To Take That Will Help Me Get Bigger?
At this time there are currently a very few items that would be considered “andro” that are still legal. These will also probably be banned as well in the near future and are all in very limited supply. Items such as Methyl 1-Alpha, Methyl 1-D and Phera-Plex are all fairly anabolic supplements that many online retailers still have limited amounts of however many of these items have already been discontinued by their respective manufacturers so supplies are limited virtually everywhere.
So What Else Is Out There To Help Me Build Muscle?
In the second part of this series I’ll help you get through the hype and confusion regarding other supplements.
By: Mike Berg
Is Your Multivitamin Toxic?
Mar 7th
In episode #33 of the second season of Crime Scene Investigator a woman poisons her husband with the chemical sodium selenite. Strange as it may sound this exotic murder weapon is found listed as a “nutrient” on the labels of most mass market vitamins. In fact, most mass market vitamins contain chemicals which the Environmental Protection Agency does not allow in our public drinking water above 50 parts per billion. According to the EPA’s -Maximum Contaminant Level standards (MCL) the highest allowable level of selenium in public drinking water is 50 parts per billion. To get a sense of how small an allowable limit this is, 50 part per billion is equivalent to a tablespoon of water in an olympic-size swimming pool or 25 seconds of time in approximately 16 years.
How can vitamin manufacturers advertise something as being a “nutrient” when the EPA – out of concern for our health – has barred it from our drinking water at all but infinitesimal levels? Has sodium selenite really been shown to be toxic? A brief perusal of toxicology reports from the Hazardous Substances Databank (toxnet.nlm.nih.gov) and PUBMED (pubmed.gov) shows that sodium selenite can be carcinogenic, genotoxic and may cause reproductive and developmental problems in animals and humans.
A word should be said here about the differences that exist between inorganic minerals and biologically active ones.
The selenium which exists in foods like brazil nuts, mustard seeds, and fresh produce grown in selenium rich soil, is infinitely different from this biologically inert forms being put in some multivitamins. In fact the difference can be as great as that which exists between life and death: i.e. sodium selenite can cause cancer, whereas the selenium found within food, or chelated forms like selenomethionine have all been shown to prevent and combat cancer. The basic principle which explains this difference is that when you isolate a “nutrient” or “vitamin” out of the food complex within which it is naturally found, and whereby it is inseparably bound to thousands of known and unknown food factors (e.g. enzymes, amino acids, etc.), it becomes a chemical isolate and therefore no longer beneficial to life (especially vertebrate mammals who are equipped to get their minerals from plants who do the job of biological transmutation from baser forms to living ones for us).
The primary reason why sodium selenite is preferred by some vitamin manufacturers over safer, more beneficial forms like chelated or yeast-grown selenium is because it is less costly to use lower quality raw materials, and therefore much MORE PROFITABLE to the manufacturer.
“You Get What You Pay For,” is a saying which almost always rings true for dietary supplements. Buying industrial waste products, or chemicals which are considered hazardous waste and repackaging them as “dietary supplements” can be extremely profitable.
Indeed, this is not the first time in American history that such a hoax has been perpetuated on the public. The FDA approved uses of flouride in our drinking water and nuclear waste as a means of “cold pasteurization” of conventional food illustrates how industrial waste products with known toxicity are eventually converted into commodities or technologies “beneficial to health. Whereas initially these substances have very high disposal costs that take away from the bottom line of the industries that ultimately excrete them into our environment, through the right combination of lobbying, miseducation and “checkbook science,” the liability is converted back into a commodity, with the environment and consumer suffering health and finances losses as a result.
Unfortunately Sodium Selenite is not the only problem with mass market vitamins. Take the multivitamin Centrum, for instance, whose manufacturer Wyeth is one of the 10 most powerful pharmaceutical companies on the planet. This vitamin contains the following chemicals:
Chemical: amount found in Centrum/ EPA Maximum Allowed Limit in Drinking Water
1) Sodium Selenite: 25 mcg/ 50 parts per billion
2) Nickelous Sulfate: 5 mcg/ 100 parts per billion
3) Chromic Chloride: 150 mcg/ 100 parts per billion
4) Sodium borate (borax): 150 mcg/ 600 parts per billion
5) Stannous Chloride: 10 mcg/ 4 parts per million
6) Ferrous Fumurate: 18 mg/ 300 parts per billion
7) Manganese Sulfate: 2 mg/ 50 parts per billion
Cupric Oxide: 2 mg/ 1.3 parts per million
So, if these chemicals are actually toxic, how can they be marketed as beneficial to our health?
The actual reason why a company can get away with using potentially harmful chemicals as “nutrients” has to do with the FDA’s “Weight of Evidence” standard for determining the toxicity of a given substance. Within this paradigm inorganic, synthetic and biologically unprecedented substances are considered safe until proven guilty. Throwing out the “precautionary principle” it places the burden of proof on those who challenge the use of substance by direct laboratory tests, from not one but from many epidemiological studies. The substance must be shown to not only cause disease, but that it will cause that disease in its allowed dosages. The inherent insanity of this approach hinges on the fact that proving toxicity in humans requires that we perform very costly and potentially dangerous tests on humans in order to prove that the substance we are testing isn’t toxic! This borders on immoral behavior, and is at the least, incredibly impractical. Moreover, since so much of the research done on synthetic chemicals is funded by the companies and industries whose interests are to find the substance safe, the likelihood of finding this toxicity is very small – that is, until, after years and years of use in the marketplace the chemicals are eventual shown to contribute to disease. Because the toxicities may be low, and take many years, even decades to manifest in a clinically discerned symptom, it may be impossible to separate out any particular chemical as dangerous.
Ultimately, we need to use common sense in our purchasing decisions and realize that sometimes companies will intentionally mislead the public – with the complicity of regulatory bodies like the FDA – and will advertise a product that has no health benefits; or worse, may actually detract from our health. The fact that Centrum may or may not be “the #1 doctor recommended brand of vitamin” is irrelevant considering that one does not go to a doctor to seek wise counsel on nutrition. It is simply not their specialty.
The irony is that billions of dollars in health care costs – and the suffering these costs represent – could be saved every year if Americans took the simply step of taking a good multivitamin every day. There are many excellent whole food supplement manufacturers who use ingredients which have high quality and which contribute significantly to filling the void in our diet, e.g. New Chapter, Garden of Life, and MegaFood.
By: Sayer Ji
How can vitamin manufacturers advertise something as being a “nutrient” when the EPA – out of concern for our health – has barred it from our drinking water at all but infinitesimal levels? Has sodium selenite really been shown to be toxic? A brief perusal of toxicology reports from the Hazardous Substances Databank (toxnet.nlm.nih.gov) and PUBMED (pubmed.gov) shows that sodium selenite can be carcinogenic, genotoxic and may cause reproductive and developmental problems in animals and humans.
A word should be said here about the differences that exist between inorganic minerals and biologically active ones.
The selenium which exists in foods like brazil nuts, mustard seeds, and fresh produce grown in selenium rich soil, is infinitely different from this biologically inert forms being put in some multivitamins. In fact the difference can be as great as that which exists between life and death: i.e. sodium selenite can cause cancer, whereas the selenium found within food, or chelated forms like selenomethionine have all been shown to prevent and combat cancer. The basic principle which explains this difference is that when you isolate a “nutrient” or “vitamin” out of the food complex within which it is naturally found, and whereby it is inseparably bound to thousands of known and unknown food factors (e.g. enzymes, amino acids, etc.), it becomes a chemical isolate and therefore no longer beneficial to life (especially vertebrate mammals who are equipped to get their minerals from plants who do the job of biological transmutation from baser forms to living ones for us).
The primary reason why sodium selenite is preferred by some vitamin manufacturers over safer, more beneficial forms like chelated or yeast-grown selenium is because it is less costly to use lower quality raw materials, and therefore much MORE PROFITABLE to the manufacturer.
“You Get What You Pay For,” is a saying which almost always rings true for dietary supplements. Buying industrial waste products, or chemicals which are considered hazardous waste and repackaging them as “dietary supplements” can be extremely profitable.
Indeed, this is not the first time in American history that such a hoax has been perpetuated on the public. The FDA approved uses of flouride in our drinking water and nuclear waste as a means of “cold pasteurization” of conventional food illustrates how industrial waste products with known toxicity are eventually converted into commodities or technologies “beneficial to health. Whereas initially these substances have very high disposal costs that take away from the bottom line of the industries that ultimately excrete them into our environment, through the right combination of lobbying, miseducation and “checkbook science,” the liability is converted back into a commodity, with the environment and consumer suffering health and finances losses as a result.
Unfortunately Sodium Selenite is not the only problem with mass market vitamins. Take the multivitamin Centrum, for instance, whose manufacturer Wyeth is one of the 10 most powerful pharmaceutical companies on the planet. This vitamin contains the following chemicals:
Chemical: amount found in Centrum/ EPA Maximum Allowed Limit in Drinking Water
1) Sodium Selenite: 25 mcg/ 50 parts per billion
2) Nickelous Sulfate: 5 mcg/ 100 parts per billion
3) Chromic Chloride: 150 mcg/ 100 parts per billion
4) Sodium borate (borax): 150 mcg/ 600 parts per billion
5) Stannous Chloride: 10 mcg/ 4 parts per million
6) Ferrous Fumurate: 18 mg/ 300 parts per billion
7) Manganese Sulfate: 2 mg/ 50 parts per billion
Cupric Oxide: 2 mg/ 1.3 parts per millionSo, if these chemicals are actually toxic, how can they be marketed as beneficial to our health?
The actual reason why a company can get away with using potentially harmful chemicals as “nutrients” has to do with the FDA’s “Weight of Evidence” standard for determining the toxicity of a given substance. Within this paradigm inorganic, synthetic and biologically unprecedented substances are considered safe until proven guilty. Throwing out the “precautionary principle” it places the burden of proof on those who challenge the use of substance by direct laboratory tests, from not one but from many epidemiological studies. The substance must be shown to not only cause disease, but that it will cause that disease in its allowed dosages. The inherent insanity of this approach hinges on the fact that proving toxicity in humans requires that we perform very costly and potentially dangerous tests on humans in order to prove that the substance we are testing isn’t toxic! This borders on immoral behavior, and is at the least, incredibly impractical. Moreover, since so much of the research done on synthetic chemicals is funded by the companies and industries whose interests are to find the substance safe, the likelihood of finding this toxicity is very small – that is, until, after years and years of use in the marketplace the chemicals are eventual shown to contribute to disease. Because the toxicities may be low, and take many years, even decades to manifest in a clinically discerned symptom, it may be impossible to separate out any particular chemical as dangerous.
Ultimately, we need to use common sense in our purchasing decisions and realize that sometimes companies will intentionally mislead the public – with the complicity of regulatory bodies like the FDA – and will advertise a product that has no health benefits; or worse, may actually detract from our health. The fact that Centrum may or may not be “the #1 doctor recommended brand of vitamin” is irrelevant considering that one does not go to a doctor to seek wise counsel on nutrition. It is simply not their specialty.
The irony is that billions of dollars in health care costs – and the suffering these costs represent – could be saved every year if Americans took the simply step of taking a good multivitamin every day. There are many excellent whole food supplement manufacturers who use ingredients which have high quality and which contribute significantly to filling the void in our diet, e.g. New Chapter, Garden of Life, and MegaFood.
By: Sayer Ji