Redefine Nutrition What do you think of FDA approval of Crestor?
for people with no health problems. Is this redefining pharmaceutical products as nutrition?
where are the "well designed studies" showing that a lack of crestor can lead to health problems?
Tony I
dbobo
good responses. where is the wolfpack?
This should be the area of greatest expertise for the group!
Unnatural compounds are not nutrition, though the argument could be made that the Crestor decision is treating it as a nutrient if it is to be prescribed to healthy people. No one ever became ill due to a deficiency in pharmaceutical drugs.
I think that the decision is one of the more blatant decisions among a great many wrong decisions that demonstrates that the FDA is merely the lackeys for Big Pharma and instead of serving the health of the citizens instead serves to protect and increase the profits of the drug companies at the expense of the rest of us. Using unnatural compounds with proven side effect which treat symptoms by forcing the body to function abnormally, which perfectly describes Crestor with its CoQ10 suppressing actions, is questionable in the first place. It is absurd when it comes to doing so with healthy people.
Now, I am sure we are going to hear about how the FDA wouldn't approve it unless it were proven to be safe and that the benefits outweighed any risks and be told that studies vouched for its safety and effectiveness and blah, blah, blah . . . but weren't we told the same thing about Vioxx? Why in Hades would anyone want to give a healthy person something with any risks to begin with?
I note that the maker of Crestor is none other than AstraZeneca, whose parent company, Imperial Chemicals, infamously started the Breast Cancer Awareness month deception to turn attention away from the cancer causing toxins they and others who joined the bandwagon produced.
For an eye-opening look at AstraZeneca, do a search for "AstraZeneca scandals". My oh my - sex for studies and much more. What a band of happy thieves we have enriching themselves at the expense of our health.
I rank the Crestor decision right up there with the ones on Vioxx, Avandia, Fosamax and Aspartame and the decision of the FDA to go after Washington cherry growers for daring to imply that eating cherries might have health benefits. And I predict that just like Vioxx and other recalled drugs it will be one of several others which will ultimately be reversed or recalled after the body count has mounted sufficiently high - but not until many billions in profits has been raked in by one of the FDA's true lords and masters.
"The FDA 'protects' the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded, and using the government's police powers they attack those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them.
It isn't.
What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day."
