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 "During that decade, the leading manufacturer of ephedra products, metabolife, spent millions of dollars lobbying to keep it on the market. Only when it seemed that ephedra might have had something to do with the death of Steve Bechler, a twenty-three-year-old pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, was enough public outrage generated to allow the FDA to finally ban ephedra.
For the supplement industry, this ban meant a loss of $800 million in annual sales, which helps explain why the industry is still fighting the ban in the courts."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "Ephedrine and its over-the-counter synthetic counterparts, variously labeled as metabolife, Metab-O-LITE and Metabomax, did a booming business as diet pills. In 1998, metabolife alone racked up sales of more than $600 million!
Although ephedra can suppress the appetite and raise your metabolism, which may help lead to short-term weight loss, it can also cause side effects, including raised blood pressure, insomnia, seizures, heart attacks, strokes, and, possibly, death."- Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.) |
 "Metabolife 356®: metabolife International, 5070 Santa Fe Street / San Diego, CA 92109 / U.S.A. / Tel: (858) 490-5222 / www.metabolife.com. Each tablet contains 12 mg of ephedrine group alkaloids and 40 mg of caffeine alkaloids, combined with the following ingredients: Ma huang, Siberian ginseng (Eleuthero), lecithin, ginger root, damiana, sarsaparilla root, goldenseal, gotu kola, spirulina, algae, bee pollen, nettle leaf, royal jelly, bovine complex, 6 I.U. vitamin E, 75 mg magnesium chelate, 5 mg zinc chelate, and 75 meg chromium picolinate.
Solaray® Ephedra: Nutraceutical Corp."- Mark Blumenthal, The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs (Get the book.) |
 "Fifteen healthy subjects (mean age 27 years) were orally supplemented with one capsule metabolife 356® (containing ephedra 12 mg, caffeine (40 mg), and 17 other unspecified components) or placebo with a 7-day washout period between treatments. Compared to baseline, the mean QTc (Bazetti) interval increased by 22 milliseconds for the DSEC group (p=0.03) and 3 milliseconds for placebo (p=0.69). Study findings should be cautiously interpreted as the actual ingredient or ingredients in Metabolite 345 are not known (McBride et al, 2004)."- Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.) |
 "Only 14 percent of the superlosers ever signed up with Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, or other commercial programs, and only 6 percent used dietary aids like metabolife or Dexatrim. A Consumer Reports editor said that the report "overturns the long-held conviction that to lose weight, you have to enroll in an expensive program, buy special food, or follow the regimen of a particular diet guru."10
Magic Bullets: Diet Supplements
Nowhere is the hype more evident than at your local drugstore."- Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.) |
| "In 1998, metabolife alone racked up sales of more than $600 million!
Although ephedra can suppress the appetite and raise your metabolism, which may help lead to short-term weight loss, it can also cause side effects, including raised blood pressure, insomnia, seizures, heart attacks, strokes, and, possibly, death. A recent paper appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine reviewed 140 reports of cardiovascular and central nervous system adverse reactions and concluded that two-thirds of adverse health reports were definitely, probably, or possibly related to the herbal formulas." - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.) |
 "Over the Counter, but Not for Long: Ephedra
Virtually all of the commercial dietary "miracle" products—TrimSpa, metabolife, Ripped Fuel, Xenadrine, and the rest—work by two pathways: suppressing appetite and increasing metabolic rate (called thermogenesis, which is the production of heat from food). They do so with varying degrees of success. The active ingredient in all of them is—or at least used to be—ephedra. A ton of information has come down the pike recently about ephedra, much of it inflammatory and a great deal of it inaccurate."- Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.) |
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