Global is good. But when it comes to the international drug industry, Chinese and Indian manufacturers don’t measure up to the strict regulatory environment we Americans rightly demand for ourselves. Not altogether surprising. That’s why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to protect us.
Advocates of traditional health-conscious living may not be feeling safer, but they have been vindicated in their suspicion of the FDA. But the problem turns out to be much worse than shoddy inspections.
The hard fact is FDA’s love affair with China has already killed American patients. This week’s reports about FDA treatment of Ranbaxy, Ltd., Indian’s biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer, are again raising disturbing questions for anybody who takes prescription drugs.
The story begins with the FDA banning over 30 generic drugs produced by Indian pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy, Ltd.
Early in 2008, FDA inspections at Ranbaxy uncovered numerous violations liable to cause, among other problems, contamination and allergic reactions. The Indian company ignored FDA warnings, and now they have been banned from exporting their generic versions of the widely-used antibiotic Cipro and the popular cholesterol medication Zocor.
Sound responsible? It depends on where the overseas medicines originate. The FDA plays foreign favorites, and so it’s also playing “pharmaceutical roulette” with American lives. In fact, government’s quality control over imported drugs is so shoddy, Americans are already getting killed by made-in-China drugs….
It’s one thing for someone who sits at a computer all day and never exercises to have back pain, but for a bodybuilder, someone who spends hours and hours each week pouring everything they’ve got into building muscle, it should be criminal…
There are many scientific ways for me to put to you and I could make it seem really confusing like most of the so-called experts do, but I won’t. I’m going to give you my extremely simple and easy to understand definition…
metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories to sustain life
I should also note that your body, yes yours, burns calories 24 hours a day, everyday - regardless of whether or not you workout or not. Remember that, your body needs energy all the time, even while you’re a sleep and that is why skipping meals is the absolute worst thing you can do if your goal is to lose weight (body fat).
Before we go any further let’s talk about what affects metabolism…
What affects metabolism?
What do you think has the biggest impact on your metabolism? Activity levels? Your Thyroid? Age?
WRONG! WRONG! and WRONG! Activity levels, Thyroid function, and age do affect metabolism but not nearly as much as…any idea? It’s muscle tissue! The more muscle you have the more calories you burn regardless of how active you are, how old you are, etc. It’s live tissue and it’s there working for you and burning calories 24 hours a day – each and every day!
Here’s a list of some of the factors affecting metabolism in order of biggest impact to least:
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