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6 Sep 2024 03:17:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Drugs for breakfast.  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 20 May 2009 00:17:07
Message: <4a138443$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> The loop hole is simple. Since the FDA can't, by any stretch of the 
>> imagination, test "everything", and Dietary Supplements often fall 
>> into a kind of vague category that was deemed "outside their purview", 
>> they can't act on anything other than false advertisement, or 
>> *actually* cases of injury to someone from using a product, whether it 
>> be magic beads, or some random herb they tell you is "good for your 
>> heart", which simultaneously failing to carry things like violet 
>> extract, which "does" work, and is sold, by legit pharma, as a named 
>> drug, because they can **accurately** measure how much you get, where 
>> as, herbals, even if they do work, which most don't, can be effected 
>> by everything from climate, rainfall, temperature, picking time, 
>> drying method, mixing methods, secondary binders and other ingredient, 
>> if you use those to make pills from them, and even the individual 
>> persons **specific** reaction to the secondary ingredients, which may 
>> either a) counter the effect of the main one, b) heighten it in 
>> someone with an allergy, c) have an entirely unintended effect that is 
>> worse than thing being cured in them, etc.
> 
> Do you realize you've written this as one long sentence? Sometimes your 
> prose can be very difficult to read. :-)
> 
What!? Next you are going to ask me to proofread things!! lol Yeah. Same 
problem that used to cause me to stutter still effects my writing, I 
think faster than I type, so don't realize I need to break things up more.

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