So Europeans will have to get a doc's prescription for a bottle of vitamin C?
They support it because it gives them patent protection over drugs they've spent millions of dollars to develop.
Ron Paul is right about 90% of the time.
10% of the time, he's an utter goofball.
Ping!
Dietary supplements are largely harmless especially when compared to most OTC medications, the reason for the increased scrutiny is that some of them really do work. I take ALA and Acetyl-L Carnitine. A wonderful combination that gives me markedly more energy and mental clarity as well as increases the rate of healing and has the side benefit of improving sexual performance. I also take a multivitamin to help me get a good selection of nutrients. Some supplements are bogus and that is where I believe the government could provide a public service in providing an evaluation of supplement companies much like a health department check where they validate things like percentage of active ingrediants et. to make sure that people aren't being cheated or being sold something that is know to be dangerous. The problem is that the government doesn't know when to stop and doesn't have a sane gauge of when there are decreasing returns for regulations. They instead push to expand regulations based upon non-scientific hysteria, look at ephedra and prohormones. Neither were anymore dangerous than most OTC medications but they were banned because of hysteria. Instead of attacking supplement companies on what is sometimes clearly false advertising they instead choose to ban otherwise harmless substances because of a few adverse reactions. If the same standard were applied to OTC medications they all would be banned. I personally like being able to choose whether I want to take a substance like GABA to help me sleep or a prohormone to help me build muscle or a diet pill to help lose a few pounds.
Here it comes folks -- we have been warning you about CAFTA and all other FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS (as they are cloaked) ---
** ONE BIG SOCIALIST WORLD -- NEW WORLD ORDER **
And it will be so deep in your drawers, you will forget how to say "FREEDOM and LIBERTY"....
not another stoooopid cafta thread!