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

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mike of UT 9:46AM January 18, 2009

The "Plus" Diet Coke has a higher amount of caffeine than the regular Diet Coke. All kinds of beverage, food and pharmaceutical products have higher and higher amounts of caffeine -- even candy bars and chewing gum. In these ever-higher amounts of caffeine the products have serious health risks. Most people have no idea just how much caffeine they consume daily. For example, their coffee from Starbucks has 50 percent more caffeine than home-brewed coffee and the Starbucks cups are a whole lot bigger. When nutritionists say a cup of coffee, they mean 6 ounces. The Ethic Soup blog has several good articles on the subject. You can read the article "Sparks Caffeine-Alcohol Drink: Unethical, Dangerous, Removed" at:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/2008/12/my-entry.html#more
Read the article on Caffeine Facts at:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/abcs-of-caffeine.html
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Sharon McEachern of CO 9:04PM December 28, 2008

I'm gonna go out and look for these before they're taken off the shelves. Great way to get prescription meds without giong to the Doc. See ya, gotta get to the store before anyone else does and buys up everything...............

The Hamemr of CA 5:44PM December 24, 2008

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

Paul Mason of CA 5:00PM December 24, 2008

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.

Joan Priestley. M.D. of AK 4:21PM December 24, 2008

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.

Deborah Kotz of DC 2:13PM December 24, 2008

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)

P.O.ed of OH 2:12PM December 24, 2008