Hydroxycut Pulled From Store Shelves Following Consumer Death
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has issued a warning to consumers that use Hydroxycut, a dietary supplement used to aid in weight loss, which has been linked to severe liver damage and has led to at least one death. Health Sciences Inc., the company that makes Hydroxycut, has already begun recalling the product.
According to Linda Katz of the FDA:
"The FDA urges consumers to discontinue use of Hydroxycut products in order to avoid any undue risk. Adverse events are rare, but exist."
Already the Hydroxycut website has been changed to redirect to "Hydroxycut Information", which shows information regarding the recall.
If by chance you wish to continue using the product (which we do not recommend), despite FDA warnings, now's the time to stock up. It looks like this weight loss pill is on its way to a full-out ban, like its predecessor Fen-Phen.
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Lawyers should go after FDA too. It's not the fist time that the FDA warns us years after that a drug has been selling without medical prescription causing deaths or serious illness in many people.
A well-written story, however you should be asking the question: why aren't more harmful products being pulled from shelves?
According to the CDC, for example, on average 500 people per year die from taking aspirin in America AS INSTRUCTED on the label, and thousands are hospitalized each year for taking aspirin due to liver damage. Yet, aspirin is still sold over-the-counter even to children.
Now, I am not proposing that aspirin should be removed from the shelves any more than should Hydroxycut. My point is that the only reported cases I've seen from the CDC so far regarding Hydroxycut was regarding people who abused the product not following label directions.
We've got to follow the money trail on this story because almost identical products to Hydroxycut are being sold "by prescription" manufactured by the nation's large pharmeceutical companies who's executives sit on the FDA board of directors. Hydroxycut is an effective non-prescription over-the-counter product for those who wish to use it that sells for 1/4 the price of identical prescription products.
I just thought I'd throw my twice-cents worth your way especially since other common over-the-counter products result in far more deaths and damage than Hydroxycut, however they are manufactured by large chemical companies with the cash to bribe Congressmen and the FDA to keep their products on store shelves.
I know they are trying to be protective here but I can say the same about any other the counter medication that is abused. If taken in moderation there is nothing wrong with any of these dietary supplements imo.
This is not a drug thus the FDA doesn't spend years studying it's effects before it goes on the market. Be very careful when taking any supplement. Especially dietary supplements that have outrageous weight loss claims. You just can't expect to lose weight from just taking a pill. That's not how it works.