While I have not used this particular product, I really think that Health Canada needs some education. I think when they first started this recent ‘campaign’ on nutritional supplements they were thinking of 1 ingredient products (ie Vitamins C pills) and became overwhelmed - very overwhelmed. And they have made some decisions that do not make sense: putting the supplements in the same catagory as drugs for pity
sakes!

My sources tell me that they are re-thinking things - one of them being putting supplements in a category of their own, not a drug or a food. We’ll see.

It is good to have knowledgable people like you trying to sort out legitimate concerns from the ’smoke and mirrors’ reactions.

Peggy
http://www.mannagold.com

What is most interesting surrounding the kava controversy is the lack of perspective. Like you said, many medications have an innumerable amount of side effects. Even over the counter, Tylenol can have a number of deaths attributed to it over the course of a year.

How can consumers accurately decide what kind of care is best for them, when governments and mass media jump into hysteria over the potential of health issues for an extremely small segment of consumers. Why don’t these organizations make grandiose warnings about all the other everyday things that large segments of consumers buy that may also have potentially dangerous and lethal side effect (ie, alcohol, xanax, tylenol, etc.).

Ron

Good Morning!

I quit smoking on July 31st, 1981, at 11:25 pm. At the time I weighed about 185 lbs., slightly over weight.

Since then I have gained 2,750 lbs. and lost 2,685 lbs. I blame it all on smoking. I smoked 2 1/2 large pacs of plain cigarettes when I quit after 25 or so years of smoking.

I feel that I was so addicted to the habit, not the nicotine, that, to this day, I have to have something in my mouth!

Over the years, I have tried: the Grapefruit diet, smelling salts, Hoodia, hypnosis, low carbo, Aitkins, exercise (gained 10 lbs. one time), Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers, lower portions and exercise, others that I have read about and can’t remember.

The most I lost at one time was 60 lbs., which was low carb and walking (about 2 hours a day, 3 or 4 times per week. I did it in about 5 months.

Of course, I gained it all back.

I can stay on a diet, lately, for 3 or 4 weeks doing pretty good (i.e.) losing 10 to 15 lbs, but, then …….!!

The compulsive snack eating takes over again, small at first, radishes, then crackers, then, bagels, then, bagels and peanut butter, then, ……. well, it just keeps growing like a fungus, until I’m 10 lbs. heavier than I was when I started.

I am 68 years old, my hips are sore when I walk, or, stand for too long, or, if I sit too long.

I weigh 250 lbs. This is, 90 lbs. more than I was when I got married 44 years ago.

Although I can’t speak from experience, the best strategy is to limit your portions, and, eat as advised on the Canada Food Guide, exercise on a regular basis!

And, DON”T START SMOKING!

It ain’t easy, man! … it ain’t easy!

FYI!

Ron

Thanks~ Pam (website for Juice Plus+ is Turn2wellness.com

And Canada, a country whose reputation for apathy & letting the government monetarily abuse its citizens, actually stood up and demanded this ridiculous bill be shot down, putting natural health products clearly in perspective of importance to Canadians. Good for Canada.

Natural healing & medicine are finally getting the recognition it deserves and the pharma industry must be feeling the pinch, especially when statistics like prescribed drugs killing more people every year than all illegal drugs combined exist.

Government needs to keep its greedy nose out of the natural health industry and quit selling out its people out to big business & killing them - that’s fraud, that’s treason and that sucks!!