Healthy Alternative Weight Loss Program Ephedra
There is at least one healthy alternative weight loss program to replace ephedra. In fact there are several good alternatives which can replace ephedra and already has. Hoodia Gordonii is one of the most popular weight loss pills on the market today. It is hard to find the real Hoodia because there are so many fake products being passed off as the real Hoodia just to make a buck. If you buy Hoodia Gordonii do your research and make sure you are getting the real thing or you will not lose weight as the product claims you will. Hoodia is a cactus like succulent found in the Kalahari desert in South Africa. It has been scientifically tested on rats and humans and in every case study the subject lost a substantial amount of weight. Sone of the human subjects reported an increase in energy as well. There are no side effects from the use of the real Hoodia. Many of the products which contained ephedra have already replaced ephedra with safer ingredients with much safer or no side effects.
Ephedra was banned in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration because there were too many serious side effects and some deaths reported. There were over 800 reports of health injuries from the use of ephedra and some deaths from 1994 to 2003. The FDA had ephedra banned in the United States in 2003. Some people felt that ephedra was not as dangerous as the FDA claimed it was. They felt that the FDA had stretched the facts to make ephedra look like it was more dangerous than it actually was so they got a petition together and filed it with the court in 2004. In 2005 the court lifted the ban on ephedra and stated that there was not enough evidence to prove that ephedra was dangerous if used in small doses less than 10 mg. The FDA continued to gather information and reports of people still suffering from strokes and heart attacks even when they only took 8 mg doses of ephedra. There were over 1,000 reports of hospital emergencies and at least 17 deaths related to ephedra from 1997 until 2006. The FDA had some of the ephedra products tested to see how much ephedra was contained in each dose of the pills tested. Some of the pills contained more ephedra than was stated on the label and some contained less. Some of them contained no ephedra at all. The FDA took the evidence and reports they compiled and filed them again in court. Ephedra was banned for the second time in the United States in late 2006.
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