So... Whats for lunch?

[purelife]

Good late afternoon everyone.  What's for dinner?

I'm making some string beans, with baked potatoes and chicken breast.  I'm also slow-cooking beef stew for my lunches. )

Has anyone taken or heard of Hydroxycut?  
 

[Sportsdude]

same dinner here purelife. chicken, potatoes and a salad.  

[P.C.]

Dinner sounds good purelife.  (love green beans !!!!!)

  Never used Hydr ?....sorry, can't help you.  

[P.C.]

OHHHH....now I'm with you.  I thought it was something you would put on a cut.

  I think weight loss products are dangerous frankly, and wouldn't trust ANYTHING out there in that vein. I'm afraid there is only one way to lose weight that 100% safe and effective.....eat less and move more.

[purelife]

 Hey PC, SD.

What cha having for dinner, PC?  Do you know what the difference is between the yellow and green beans?  Yellow sweeter?

Cool, SD.  ))  You're cooking?


   

[Sportsdude]

  In the US it was banned because it had Ephedra in it which has killed people. Now they make it without the Ephedra but I don't know about Canada.    

[purelife]

Yea, I know that it's "dangerous," but a friend of mine has been using it.  I'm kinda worried about the amount of caffeine.  It's asking me to take about 6 cups of coffee a day.  One pill is equivalent to 1 cup of coffee's worth of caffeine.  I'm going to give this a try starting tomorrow.  

I've been eating less and exercising and it hasn't given me the results that I want.  
 

[Sportsdude]

 Yeah I don't do weight loss pills. I've lost 10lbs in 2 weeks just by swimming and eating less.

No I didn't cook, chicken was store bought from Sam's and grandma did the potatoes. But I'll cook some thai stuff I bought last week. I cooked this rice for steak last week and everybody loved it. (which shocked me because they usually don't like the food I eat.)
   

[purelife]

 I read about the ephedra.  I heard that it's the key ingredient but it's not in this one that I brought, unless ephedra is in another word?    

[Sportsdude]

 Missouri's [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General" title="Attorney General"]Attorney General[/a] [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Nixon" title="Jay Nixon"]Jay Nixon[/a] filed a lawsuit in [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis%2C_Missouri" title="St. Louis, Missouri"]St. Louis[/a] against Hydroxycut's manufacturer [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuscleTech" title="MuscleTech"]MuscleTech Research and Development, Inc[/a] stating that claims Hydroxycut was "clinically proven" to be a "fat-burner" were false, specifically:^{[a href="http://www.ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2003/032703.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.ago.mo.gov/newsreleases/2003/032703.htm" rel="nofollow"][2][/a]} [table style="border-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: transparent;" class="cquote" align="center"] [tbody][tr] [td style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="20"]"[/td] [td style="padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top"]The product is not "clinically proven" to be a "fat-burner," as MuscleTech claims. MuscleTech's own study showed that Hydroxycut has no efficacy as compared to placebo with the possible exception of an appetite-suppressing effect. Moreover, the serious adverse health risks of Hydroxycut with ephedra – including death – were not adequately described or disclosed in marketing and labeling of the product.[/td] [td style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 36px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="20"]"[/td] [/tr] [/tbody][/table] Nixon also alleged that the "before" and "after" photographs were misleading, and that one woman's "before" photo was deceptive because she was recently pregnant.^{[a href="http://www.ago.mo.gov/lawsuits/2003/032703hydroxycut.pdf" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.ago.mo.gov/lawsuits/2003/032703hydroxycut.pdf" rel="nofollow"][3][/a]}[/p] MuscleTech paid $100,000 to settle the case while denying any wrongdoing.  

[P.C.]

Well low and behold, we're having chicken too.  (on the spit)  Cauliflower and baby nuggets.  

  [img height=249 hspace=5 src="http://www.greenbeansnmore.com/images/green_yellow_purple.jpg" width=350 align=right vspace=15]
[FONT face=Arial][FONT color=#006600]Green beans come in a variety of colors.[/FONT]

Green beans come in some lovely colors that you'd never imagine. How about purple? Yes, that's right, purple. One purple variety of green bean is called Violet Podded, and it's a pole bean. There are also yellow (or gold) green beans too. A very popular yellow green bean is the Rocquencourt. The Rocquencourt is a yellow heirloom French Filet green bean with a very thin long pod. Another French Filet green bean is the Balong. Generally purple green beans and yellow green beans are identical in taste and texture to green green beans.

One thing I'd like to add here about purple green beans. They are best used raw. Once heat is applied to them they will loose their color (it bleeds out). Some chef's suggest the best way to cook them and have them retain their best color is to "butter baste" them.[/FONT]


  *****Please be careful with that stuff purelife. (not the beans, although they have their own set of dangers...lol)  

[Sportsdude]

oh cool. All those green beans would make a killer green bean salad  

[purelife]

I've never seen purple beans before.. .wow, interesting.  I didn't know that that color existed in the bean family.  So, it looks like us 3 are having chicken and baby nugget potatoes.  ))  

I'll be careful, PC.  If I notice anything weird, I'll be stopping.  
 

[Sportsdude]

 "My best friend and teammate and I used hydroxycut one time and she got kidney stones so bad she ended up in the hospital but the coach never knew."

 A Division I senior diver
[a href="http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/17413451.htm"]
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/17413451.htm[/a]

No miracle pill
 "There's a tremendous appeal for a magic pill to help lose weight - manufacturers of weight-loss pills appeal to that, I think," said Dr Robert Saper, director of integrative medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University Medical Center. [/p]But in a review of the scientific evidence, published in the Nov. 1, 2004, issue of American Family Physician, Saper suggested there's no miracle pill on the market. In fact, some of the supplements out there may be dangerous or might interact with prescription medications that people are taking, he said.
[/p][a href="http://www.health24.com/dietnfood/Weight_Centre/15-51-2974-2978,30570.asp"]http://www.health24.com/dietnfood/Weight_Centre/15-51-2974-2978,30570.asp[/a]
   

[P.C.]

Just doing  a brief little bit of research should steer you away from this stuff.

  One of Hydroxycuts own ads lists 8 serious side effects and only 4 benefits.  That pretty much sums it up.

There is a really good unbiased report here.

[A href="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/01/06/043643.php"]http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/01/06/043643.php[/A]