Good Reasons to Avoid Diet Coke Plus, Weight-Loss Supplements

Diet Coke Plus

In response to your story about Diet Coke Plus's harassment by FDA, the Healthy Water Association http://www.mgwater.com/hwa.shtml wishes to point out that most Americans are deficient in magnesium, resulting in large numbers of heart attacks and strokes. The Magnesium Online Library contains hundreds of medical journal articles supporting that contention at www.MgWater.com

The Healthy Water Association recommends that all bottled beverages on earth be fortified to contain 100 mg of Magnesium, and commends the Coca Cola company for taking a step in that direction with it's magnesium-enriched product Diet Coke Plus.

It appears that during the Bush Administrations over the last 8 years, the FDA has suppressed consumption of magnesium and information about magnesium and research about magnesium, to help the pharmaceutical companies make Billions of Dollars by "treating" heart disease and stroke, instead of preventing heart disease and stroke with dietary magnesium. As President of the Healthy Water Association, and Librarian of the Magnesium Online Library, it is my hope that the corrupt officials at the FDA who keep suppressing magnesium will be brought to justice, and tried for the crime of genocide, having killed far more Americans than

Osama Bin Laden.

For a short summary of magnesium-in-water's benefits, see Dr. Mildred Seelig's excellent article

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF WATER MAGNESIUM;

EVIDENCE OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEALTH

Mildred S. Seelig, M.D., M.P.H., Master of American College of Nutrition; Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (in Press: Proceedings of Mg Symposium, Vichy, France 2000)

http://www.mgwater.com/epidem.shtml

Sincerely,

Paul Mason, Pres.

Healthy Water Association

Librarian, Magnesium Online Library

(408) 897-3023

Supplements for weight loss

I take sharp issue with Ms. Fernstrom's blanket condemnation of dietary supplements for weight loss. CLA (conjugated linolenic acid), especially when used with the 7 keto form of DHEA, green tea extract, forskolin (an herbal extract derived from the Coleous family) and others have been extensively researched for years.

These particular products have been proven to have the ability to help people lose weight more effectively and more safely than the major FDA pricey weight loss drugs currently on the market. In my medicaI practice (I am an M.D.), I have helped many patients obtain impressive weight loss by using this combination.

The attitude that supplements are useless at best and dangerous at worst was touted in the 1960s and 70s, before a tidal wave of impressive research had occurred. We now know that supplements (made from reputable companies in the United States) have an excellent safety record, and sometimes work better than drugs for certain problems (St. John's Wort for mild depression, for example).

It is an error to denigrate all supplements because of the inferior products being imported from unscrupulous manufacturers in China.

Deborah Kotz responds

The FDA regulates food and supplements (including OTC diet pills) far less than it does drugs because of the DSHEA law enacted by Congress over a decade ago. Still, it's completely illegal to sell OTC products in the U.S. that contain controlled substances only available by prescription. That's why the FDA is taking action now to get them off the market.

Danger in COKE

And just how many MORE of such thing and how many lives must be lost before the government gets its head out of its *** and puts a BAN in ALL STUFF FROM CHINA? At least until they can get THERE act together and STOP this dangerous act? (which at the rate they are churning this junk out will be very LONG time)

Weightloss products

I had no idea that there were ingredients and drugs in such nutritional/food/edible products that are not listed. Why would the FDA not have had then removed already? I thought the FDA regulated and protected consumers. Where have they been?