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A “Dirty Dozen” List of Supplements Consumers Should Avoid
Consumer Reports, August 3, 2010
Hidden Drugs and Steroids Found in More Than 170 Supplements Since 2008
A new investigation in the September issue of Consumer Reports and available online at www.ConsumerReportsHealth.org describes a striking lack of government oversight for the bustling $26.7 billion dietary supplement market and identifies a “dirty dozen” list of supplement ingredients that have been linked by clinical research or case reports to serious adverse events, such as cancer, coma, heart problems, kidney damage, liver damage, or death. (read article)
Dangerous Supplements
Consumer Reports, August 3, 2010
We Americans do love our dietary supplements. More than half of the adult population have taken them to stay healthy, lose weight, gain an edge in sports or in the bedroom, and avoid using prescription drugs. In 2009, we spent $26.7 billion on them, according to the Nutrition Business Journal, a trade publication. What consumers might not realize, though, is that supplement manufacturers routinely, and legally, sell their products without first having to demonstrate that they are safe and effective. (read article)
New Bill Seeks to Ban Consumer Access to Dietary Supplements
William Faloon, February 12, 2010
A bill has been introduced to the Senate that would drive up the cost of dietary supplements and restrict your access to them. This bill seeks to give the FDA arbitrary control over what supplements you are allowed to have. (read article)
Father Pens Book Following Young Man's Death from Nutritional Supplement
The Indian Express, January 8, 2010
The sad demise of a young man, raised in Fremont, California, as a result of unfortunate choice of taking non-prescription pills, in an ill-advised attempt to improve health has spurred an Indian American father to pour his anguish in a book chronicling his life which the author, Jeevan Zutshi decided could be put to best use in educating the general public. (read article)
Greetings from Congressman Michael M. Honda to the Amit Zutshi Foundation on the Book Signing Event for Author Jeevan Zutshi's The Last Smile
December 4, 2009
Read Congressman Honda's welcome letter.
Oakland Tribune:
Fremont man turns his grief into book. New book details son's death after using nutritional aids
Matthew Artz, December 2, 2009
Jeevan Zutshi has met with a president and prime ministers, but he did not think his life's journey from India to Fremont was worth telling until his son died last year. (read article)
India Abroad:
Zutshi Foundation aims to fight use of OTC drugs.
G Joseph, May 5, 2008
A personal tragedy for Jeevan Zutshi, founder of the Indo-American Community Federation, turned into a talking point for the Unity Dinner 08 held at the Newark Fremont Hilton in California. (read article)
New York Times:
Diet Supplements and Safety: Some Disquieting Data
Dan Hurley, January 16, 2007
In October 1993, during a Senate hearing on a bill to regulate herbs, vitamins and other dietary supplements on the presumption that they were safe, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, spoke up in their defense. Herbal remedies "have been on the market for centuries,"' he said (read article)