| The Ephedra Diet Supplements status in the U.S.? | | | | supplements since they lost weight with no |
| The FDA (Food and Drug Admin.) announced in | | | | exercise or actual dieting. There aren't many of |
| 2008 they were banning the ephedra diet | | | | these worldwide supplements that can initiate |
| supplements. In 2004 they 1st published a rule | | | | weight loss with no exercise. One study showed |
| that stated that any dietary supplement that | | | | subjects who lost ten lbs of fat in six weeks |
| contained ephedrine alkaloids presented an | | | | while taking 20 milligrams ephedrine, 200 milligram |
| unnecessary risk of injury or illness. Fighting the | | | | caffeine and 325 milligrams of aspirin for three |
| supplements industry for quite some time, the | | | | times daily and no exercise. |
| FDA was then able to ban such products. | | | | Ephedra is a stimulant that occurs in our central |
| They had received well over 800 complaints that | | | | nervous systems naturally. Now made chemically, |
| linked ephedra to headaches, dizziness, psychosis, | | | | it is a stimulant that can be taken from Ephedra |
| chest pains, strokes and seizures. Some of the | | | | equisetina plants. Although it is not as long acting |
| states actually banned the produce before FDA | | | | and is less potent than methamphetamines, is it |
| even acted. Since it is said that taking these on a | | | | related closely to them. |
| regular basis can cause the heart stay in high gear | | | | In order to reach their desired weight loss more |
| too much and cause heart attacks to those | | | | quickly, dieters have combined ephedra with |
| staying on them for long periods of times like for | | | | aspirin and caffeine. They are now marking |
| weight loss. | | | | products with "ephedra leaves" now that the |
| These manufacturers didn't take it too well and | | | | ephedra supplements have been banned. Many |
| did not go without fighting. Two made an effect | | | | complain these are not a good sub for the original. |
| with the US District Court in Jersey and entered a | | | | Dieters say that Ephedra leaves are ineffective, |
| temporary injunction hoping to stop the FDA | | | | even though they are legal to take. |
| from this ruling. But the courts did not agree with | | | | This battle is however not over. Manufacturers as |
| that, making that sage continue even when the | | | | well as dieters are still trying to fight back to |
| pills aren't permitted on the market. | | | | make these ephedra weight loss products |
| Many of the dieters loved the benefits of ephedra | | | | available and legal once again. |