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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-12-30 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #2554 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2554 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Hobbit movies, Silmarillion]


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[Ripper Street]


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[Avengers]


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[Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Sherlock Holmes/Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Soukyuu no Fafner]


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[Attack on Titan]


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[Goo Goo Dolls]
















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Re: Holiday Ranting and Venting Thread

(Anonymous) 2013-12-31 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
DA

Some of those "supplements" and "Chinese herbs" or "vitamins" especially the ones you get at the sketchier "whole foods" shops have either been shown to contain dangerous substances (like high doses of ephedra, in the case of the "harmless Chinese herbs"), nothing but filler products like plaster, etc., or other unlisted fillers that people may be allergic to; and in the case of "homeopathic" stuff, nothing at all (because those operate on the placebo effect).

The "health foods" and "alternative medicine" industries are not at all regulated like the drug industry is, in first world countries; and even those agencies slip up and miss things that fall through the net. So imagine that same scenario, only WITHOUT regulation.
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Re: Holiday Ranting and Venting Thread

[personal profile] nyxelestia 2013-12-31 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
That was why I didn't want to take them in the first place. When I needed some more iron earlier in the year, I felt much better after just taking in some foods with more iron than taking the tablets.

She takes so many a day, I'm going to try and compile all the incidences of recalls, analyses, frauds, and other shenanigans relating to vitamins and homeopathic medicine (especially if they're brands she uses) and show her. For years she didn't have health coverage to take care of some basic problems and has been relying on these to get her through them. But right now she has coverage, so I'm hoping to get her to a doctor so she can get a prescription vitamin - things that will have just what she needs, and be sure to actually contain what she needs. And probably in just one or two pills a day, instead of needing to take over a dozen every morning.