Natural Supplements

Natural supplements have become a world widesimple rush out to embrace him minimal questions
billion dollar business with an insatiable everasked. Times have changed but we are just a
increasing appetite for more, more and still moregullible as ever and not likely to change so they
and no apparent end in sight. The quest forjust keep on coming to hurt kill and most of all
nutrition, health, diet and weight loss supplementsfleece us in the name of the almighty dollar or
and enhancers has not just "gone through thewhatever currency .
roof" it threatens to breach the very atmosphereJust thinking about how many supplements there
itself. Every day we are all submerged andare is mind boggling form acai berry, coral shell
baptized in the thick ever present unrelenting soupcalcium, ginkgo biloba, oregano oil, oolong tea
of claims advertisements, infomercials, cults andbenefits, Chinese tea, oxalate diet, whey protein
heavy laden libraries of facts, figures, warningsisolate powder, isopure protein drink, Chinese tea,
and "yes" over whelming self fulfilling propheciesguggul extract, bitter melon, withania, guggul lipids,
of impending doom in reference to our needsashwagandha, to garcinia cambogia the list seems
wants and must have of dietary supplement andto grow daily. However the resources needed to
nutrition products.sustain this growth are quickly shirking, more and
We all want to do what is best for our mentalmore of the supplements we crave seem to be
and physical well being, development andcoming from endangers plants, animals and over
preservation. This however forces us to sift andexploited tracts of forests lands. None of us deny
evaluate the group think and contrived speak ofthe whole sale destruction of the Amazon and
the MLM's, doctor, dietitians and self proclaimedother tropical forests continues unabated, while
high priests and gurus of supplement and nutrition.introducing producing and harboring more of the
In the midst of all the talk about why we needmythical mystical magical supplements and foods
supplement and the consequences for ourwe can not get enough of.
collective and personal health if you do not haveFolks honestly this is crazy, what are we doing?
them there is also the real threat of using themthe only way we will ever be able to take full
and no one seems to offer a bit of definitive helpadvantage of the health benefits of these
to negotiate this ever deepening mine field. Ansupplements is to remove ourselves from our
Israeli woman filed a NIS 2.5 million lawsuit againstsoft lives and go live in the rain-forest or at least
Herbalife International recently claiming theirreturn to our agricultural roots. The truth is the
products caused her chronic liver disease. On thecloser we are to the earth and the source of
other hand we stand warned that our bone healththese supplements the more likely the benefits
is at risk if we use supplements that are deficientwe demand will be realized, the health answers
in calcium. I guess my brother in law must haveare in our past locked in the soils we defile walk
heard this before he had to have an operationupon tear into and concrete over to feed our
that came near killing him to removed calciumgreed and egos. It would be wise for all of us to
stones cause by a calcium tablet dietarytake note that the banana diet does not work
supplement.without bananas, and the oranges we use to
The federal Government Accounting Officemake the juice we prize so much just like
(GAO) issued a report asking the FDA to morebananas and countless other things we consume
carefully oversee the review and evaluation ofwere once considered supplements and have
the diet supplement industry, in response tothere origin in the jungles. I guess the only way to
recent complaints and even deaths. The strangesum it up is to say there are so many conflicting
thing is that even while all this is happening thefacts concerning supplements perhaps it is time to
first golden tongued new snake oil salesmen thatpull back and take a serious look all the issues.
comes to town selling dietary supplements we