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FDA Expands List of Weight Loss Products Considered Unsafe

The FDA put out a report at the end of 2008 in regards to 28 different weight-loss products. This new expansion of that list increased the number of products all the way up to 72.

These new products which have been added to the list contain active pharmaceutical ingredients which may be unsafe, and have been undeclared.

The products added to the list include Harbal Xenicol, Xsvelten, and others.

These were revealed in a nationwide alert as they have been found to contain ingredients that had not been revealed to the FDA prior to them going to market.

These pharmaceutical ingredients the FDA was unaware of consist of cetilistat, fluoxetine, and others. These active ingredients are all from drugs that have not been approved in the United States.

These dietary supplements could cause harm to the health of consumers

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Meghan McCain Tells Weight Critics To “Kiss My Fat Ass!”

Meghan McCain is sick of the debate about her weight.

After the 24-year-old daughter of U.S. Senator and former GOP presidential hopeful John McCain criticized Anne Coulter and other conservatives in an online column, political commentator Laura Ingraham heckled her on her radio show last week.

Ingraham tore into Meghan McCain as “just another Valley Girl gone awry,” and even went on to mock McCain in a faux Valley Girl voice, saying that she didn’t get a “role in the Real World” because “they don’t like plus-sized models.”

Meghan McCain

Ouch. Hitting back on The View on March 16, Meghan McCain said she can’t believe Ingraham went after her weight instead of actually talking about the issues.

“What do young women think when I speak my mind about politics, and I want to have a political discussion about the ideological future of the Republican party, and the answer is, ‘she’s fat, she shouldn’t have an opinion?’” she said.
“What kind of message are we sending young women? … It infuriates me. I’m a political writer on a blog, and all of a sudden I’m too fat to write?”

“I couldn’t possibly imagine how any woman could criticize another woman’s weight. I work out at the gym and try and eat healthy, but I’m still a size 8.”

Enduring taunts about her body since she was in grade school, Meghan McCain – a vocal campaign supporter of her dad last year – said she is fed up.

“Why are we so obsessed with weight?” she said.

“When Tyra Banks went on her show in her bathing suit and said, ‘Kiss my fat ass…’ That’s what I feel right now. I’m like, ‘Kiss my fat ass!’”

Added McCain, “There is no place for weight criticism in 2009.”

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