Essentials of Nutrition for Sports
Figure 16. Nutritional quackery flags are described in the text. Red flags for the PRBar product advertised in Figure 16 include ...
Product Promotion Lies of Omission Studies are usually funded by companies looking to promote their product. Unfortunately, exce ...
The ad copy sounds too good to be true: “After switching to the PR*Bar and 40/30/30 Nutrition Progra m, I excelled from ‘sport’ ...
-^ It is uncertain whether the same ingredients are present in the next bottle. A report in Consumer’s Reports on a certain bran ...
all disciplines - from cognitive psychologists running rats through mazes to nuclear physicists operating massive particle accel ...
treatment of guar gum-associated esophageal obstruction led to a recall of weight-control products containing this ingredient. I ...
-^ Lotronex (alosetron, gastrointestinal track motility problems, irritable bowel syndrome). Seve re constipation and ischemic c ...
From Quackwatch Supplement Hype 28 Many supplement manufacturers s uggest that their products have characteristics that make the ...
Most of these claims are pure hype. “High potency” is a misnomer because above-RDA doses are more likely to cause harm than they ...
From The Medical Letter 29 Supplement Problems Millions of people take herbal products and other dietary supplements. The Law In ...
Kava The FDA recently advised the public about the potential risk of severe liver injury, including cirrhosis and liver failure, ...
Herbal Concerns (^) New Hope is a natural products industry trade and consumer publications company. It provides “integrated mar ...
-^ Kava kava—becoming popular as a sleep aid and anti-anxiety agent. Concerns are about potential regulatory issues (no problems ...
Product Promotion A Look at Endurox R4 As an intellectual exercise, let us examine the nutritional claims and knowledge base tha ...
Adaptogens Adaptogens are “food-grade herbal substances.” At first blush, herbs sound like a good idea to some consumers. As we ...
Branch-Chain Amino Acids, Arginine, Glutamine The claim, popular in the late 1990s: Branch-chain amino acids improve performance ...
Figure 20. Glycogen synthesis is almost tripled when one-quarter again as many carbohydrate calories are added to a carbohydrate ...
Hype: Marketing Graphs and Ad Copy Again, from the manufacturer’s website: “The results of the clinical trials provide powerful ...
Endurox R4 chief selling point is its protein to carbohydrate ratio of 1:4, and a few other nutrients thrown in. As discussed ab ...
Part 6: Body Fat, Weight Part 6 is available in the free supplement. The supplement is published separately for ease of electron ...
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