Popular Health Supplements Actually Full of Asparagus and Lies
Major national retailers are selling bullshit herbal supplements that don't actually contain the ingredients they promise on the bottle, the New York State attorney general's office alleged on Monday. That "gingko biloba" is actually a unique blend of powdered asparagus and deception.
The AG's office ordered tests on supplements from GNC, Target, Walmart, and Walgreens, and the results were disheartening: "oughly four out of five of the products contained none of the herbs listed on their labels," the New York Times reports.
The attorney general sent cease-and-desist letters to the four companies, ordering them to take the deceptive products—which contained mostly fillers like powdered rice, a houseplant called dracaena, and the aforementioned asparagus—off of New York shelves.
Walgreens has agreed to pull the allegedly deceptive supplements nationwide, and Walmart and GNC both said they would take "appropriate" action.
The NYT's Well blog has a full list of useless pills to look out for, but here's the short version: Nobody's gingko biloba, ginseng or St. John's Wort is any good, garlic is only 50/50 in garlic pills (but it shows up in plenty of unrelated supplements), and Target had the only echinacea that contained echinacea (but still not in every sample).
the other thing is that they are like "if you eat right you don't get anything extra from vitamins anyway"... let's be reasonable here. i'm not eating right.
getfiscal posted:for normal adult multivitamins the evidence i've heard is that it doesn't improve lifelong health. but does it like... affect your experience of health? like taking an ibuprofen when you get a headache probably doesn't prevent cancer. but it makes you not have a headache. that's what i wonder. like if i take multivitamins will i feel less on the verge of death each day.
the other thing is that they are like "if you eat right you don't get anything extra from vitamins anyway"... let's be reasonable here. i'm not eating right.
Whatever works, man.
The rule I have gradually adopted in eating is to make sure that i truly desire something before eating it.
quavers posted:gawker ruins another line of placebos
The nice thing about the placebo effect is that it still works when you know you're taking a placebo
Agnus_Dei posted:getfiscal posted:for normal adult multivitamins the evidence i've heard is that it doesn't improve lifelong health. but does it like... affect your experience of health? like taking an ibuprofen when you get a headache probably doesn't prevent cancer. but it makes you not have a headache. that's what i wonder. like if i take multivitamins will i feel less on the verge of death each day.
the other thing is that they are like "if you eat right you don't get anything extra from vitamins anyway"... let's be reasonable here. i'm not eating right.Whatever works, man.
The rule I have gradually adopted in eating is to make sure that i truly desire something before eating it.
ah, Tom's Principle
"Lol, meeting for dinner with hollande tomorrow. hope they will have something without frogs, snails or fries on menus. Lol. Siege heil!
Agnus_Dei posted:The rule I have gradually adopted in eating is to make sure that i truly desire something before eating it.
i dont truly desire this beef
getfiscal posted:for normal adult multivitamins the evidence i've heard is that it doesn't improve lifelong health. but does it like... affect your experience of health? like taking an ibuprofen when you get a headache probably doesn't prevent cancer. but it makes you not have a headache. that's what i wonder. like if i take multivitamins will i feel less on the verge of death each day.
the other thing is that they are like "if you eat right you don't get anything extra from vitamins anyway"... let's be reasonable here. i'm not eating right.
that has pretty much been my assumption, and i take them. i know from experience that when i eat vitamins the skin on my hands while still liable to become calloused and rough and will sometimes crack in the winter / extreme weather conditions, is still less prone to do so when i take multivitamins.
