{"id":4764,"date":"2011-04-14T06:48:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T04:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:51:57","slug":"supps-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/supps-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think Supps Are Here to Stay&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db61.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest report from the CDC is accurate<\/a>. According to the authors, roughly half of American adults\u00a0use dietary supplements &#8211; with multivitamins leading the pack.<\/p>\n<p>I regularly read a range of med blogs &#8211;\u00a0fascinating stuff. But while I admire\u00a0and support the work these professionals do,\u00a0I part company with them on one point: DSHEA. The\u00a0vast majority of these folks go into conniptions over the act, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/terrasig\/2009\/11\/25\/conservative-author-david-frum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and would like nothing better than to see it completely repealed<\/a>. I get their reasons:\u00a0as it&#8217;s currently applied, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/whitecoatunderground\/2009\/07\/20\/dshea-a-travesty-of-a-mockery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of snake oil<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/2008\/03\/28\/fda-warns-significant-hair-loss-linked-to-dietary-supplement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sometimes dangerous<\/a> snake oil) ends up on the market.<\/p>\n<p>But that particular horse left the barn a long time ago. As the above report demonstrates, supps are pretty darned popular, and &#8211;\u00a0good, bad or ugly &#8211; \u00a0it&#8217;s going to stay that way.\u00a0 Thus, even if I thought\u00a0repealing it\u00a0was\u00a0a good idea (and I don&#8217;t!), I think our time is best spent evaluating claims and doing a better job of holding\u00a0manufacturers\/vendors accountable for making false or misleading ones.<\/p>\n<p>Supps are here to stay, so it&#8217;s better to\u00a0adapt to\u00a0that reality, IMHO, vs. railing against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least if the latest report from the CDC is accurate. According to the authors, roughly half of American adults\u00a0use dietary supplements &#8211; with multivitamins leading the pack. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10368,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}