The Death Race...What is Really Killing Us?

Ephedra’s popular because it works, because it helps people with their losing battle against fat. You know what kills people? Being fat. But, fat makes money...fat is cheap on the front end and expensive on the back end. The dollar menu is cheap, easy and tasty; a heart attack is costly and makes a lot of people money...talk about job security for the pharmaceutical and medical companies!!

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the world! According to the National Center for Health Statistics, roughly two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obsess. This life threatening epidemic is spreading through teenagers and children.

The most recent final year count for number of heart disease related deaths is 2006. The number of deaths: 631,636. That is well over half a million people, in a single year, who died. The leading cause to heart disease: obesity.

Everyone is looking to be in better shape, to lose fat. Sometimes, diet and exercise alone are not enough. People have looked to medication and supplements to help their battle and save their life and they found ephedra.

Ephedra is a supplement that is proven to help reduce fat, to help reduce the plague of the number one killer. Critics of ephedra point out the few deaths that have been associated with the use of ephedrine (the root of the plant) and have successfully had it banned. All the while, millions of people have used ephedrine on a regular basis, lost a lot of weight and experienced no known health problems.

The people who did not like what they felt while taking ephedra products simply stopped using them. Problem solved.

Ironically, no one is talking about the number of people who died from prescription medication. No one talks about how many people die from taking any other OTC medicine. Seems to me it is jaded and slighted. Is it really about ephedra? Or is ephedra taking away from someone else’s pocket?

What diseases are directly associated with being overweight or obese?

Type 2 diabetes
Coronary heart disease
High LDL (bad cholesterol)
Stroke
Hypertension
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Gallbladder disease
Osteoarthritis
Sleep apnea
Certain cancers – breast, colorectal, endometrial, kidney
Complications of pregnancy (including gestational diabetes)
Menstrual irregularities