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How often do you eat meat? Did you know that meat producers inject antibiotics in order to make sure the animal is healthy? Well did you also know that meat producers have been abusing this by injecting even more antibiotics into the animals to increase production and promote growth?
According to ChicacgoTribune.com, the Food and Drug Administration has asked meat producers to cease addition of these antibiotics to increase production or help promote growth.
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Latisse is an eyelash enhancement product that can make you have fuller, longer, thicker and luscious lashes; you may have seen the commercials with Brooke Shields promoting the product. Latisse is only available through prescription and is aimed at helping people who have hypotrichosis, “a technical term for having too few eyelashes,” states EyeLash-Growth.com.
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Particular about your toothpaste? According to a study published in the journal of General Dentistry, some toothpastes contain triclosan, which has antibacterial agents and is better than regular fluoride toothpaste at reducing plaque and gingivitis.
ChicagoTribune.com, shares that even a toothpaste with benefits comes with risks. This toothpaste may expose it’s users to chemicals, which inspired the FDA to study the safety of triclosan. Triclosan has been linked to disruptions in hormonal function and might also spawn from bacteria resistance.
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Taken any Tylenol or Benadryl lately? You might want to think twice about using it again. On Friday, April 30, 2010, the FDA recalled certain ingredients used for making the liquid cold and allergy medicine for children, saying they had bacteria in them.
According to Health.com, over 40 products were recalled including: Motrin, Zyrtec, Tylenol, Tylenol Plus and Benadryl. A total of 1,500 products have been recalled internationally. The plant in Ft. Washington, PA was closed immediately and will not reopen without FDA go-ahead.
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How many of you female readers take “the Pill”? This weekend “the Pill” celebrated it’s 50th anniversary. On May 9, 1960 the FDA officially approved the birth control pill for women.
According to Health.com, this magical pill was never meant to help women get jobs or control the size of a family. Many religious groups are still against using the contraceptive pill to prevent pregnancy. Some view the birth control pill as anti-life. This pill was meant to help women choose their own path, to finally be in charge of when they’d like to start a family, how many children they’d prefer to have and when they’d like to stop having children.
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Last week, Provenge, a therapeutic vaccine intended to prevent prostate cancer from spreading in men with an advanced form of the disease, was granted approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. According to HealthDay.com, “The new approval is limited to “the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and is resistant to standard hormone treatment.”
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Do you find yourself eating healthier everyday? Hopefully that answer is yes. In the last year or so the media and the health industry have made a huge commotion about a few words…organic, fortified and natural. Companies have thrown these words all over their product labels to catch the consumers eye. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, have lenient rules which allow certain language to be used on the front of their products. Yet, when you take a look on the nutritional label you’ll quickly see that this product is not healthy at all.
Health.com has spent quite a long time detecting the most overrated health food products that seem to be fooling even the most serious, health-conscious shoppers. These products may not be all that bad but they are not what they ‘claim’ to be.
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A soldier doing battle is badly burned. Quickly, a medic comes to his aid and sprays his burn wounds healing them. What’s even more mind blowing, you aren’t watching a science fiction movie, it’s real life!
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The cancer risks of tanning are real – concludes the World Health Organization (WHO). The result of the findings is the possible move by the FDA to ban people under the age of 18 from using tanning beds.
MSNBC reports that an advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration recommended that stricter regulations be put on artificial tanning. The proposal suggests necessitating parental consent or banning the use of the machines by teens altogether.
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