WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hydroxycut products, popular dietary supplements used for weight loss, have been linked to liver damage and are being recalled, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
According to the FDA, last year, Iovate sold more than 9 million units of Hydroxycut products, which were distributed widely to grocery stores, health food stores and pharmacies.
LOL I used that stuff over 10 years ago. Didnt do much for me and Im still alive. Funny how they ban something that is responsible for what? 2 deaths? While keeping pharmas on the shelf that have killed thousands... I guess they shoulda stood up and had a bigger lobby in Congress... Nearly every pharmaceutical out there has liver damage listed as side effects... Total bs..lol.
Canuck_Buck at lunch today I was talking to my wife's running partner and she use to lift semi-competitively .... she said that stuff burns your body hard, tingles the skin, gives you jolts of energy and burns calories at the same time. She used it mid-lat 90's.
If the makers are voluntarily taking it all off the shelves? then they know its bad and have all along to act so quickly after the FDA called them out (lawsuit implications I'm sure)
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Was it originally regulated or controled by the FDA? If it isn't a regulated med do they have a say if it can be marketed? Just wondering because I never thought about it. From my way of thinking if you want to lose weight there is only one way.....burn off more calories than you take in. A magic pill is no substitute for not pigging out at the table and getting regular exercise.
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It sounds like it shouldn't have been approved to begin with.
Hydroxycut was marketed as a "dietary supplement", the FDA has no regulatory power over supplements if they don't contain compounds that can be legally classified as drugs.
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Why people need half or should I say want half of that crap is beyond me. They'd get WAY more out of reading a book on nutrition than some quicky pop a pill solution.
I believe hydroxy is used as an appetite suppressant, I remember reading about it, seemed like it was advertised as a metabolism increaser...
Hydroxycut started out using ephedra, and like many of its competitors, had to reformulate when ephedra was banned in the United States. Like many of its ephedra using competitors, it has never quite recovered from that fall. They have never been able to find sufficient ingredients to replace the effectiveness of ephedra.....those companies who used ephedra in the past follow a common pattern. They tend to take the popular or easy way out and use whatever ingredients everybody else is using, whether or not they happen to be safe, or whether or not they happen to actually be effective. They also tend to use proprietary blends of those common ingredients, which means 9 times out of 10 that they are hiding fillers.
they told you it was ok ......... they LIED
