Posted by Larry Hoover on June 16, 2003, at 11:44:29
In reply to Re: Jehovah's Witnesses sue Health Canada, posted by mmcasey on June 16, 2003, at 11:21:37
> > the issue of using nutritional supplements
> > to treat bipolar disorder.
>
> What's the issue that they have with it? That people shouldn't be using nutritional supplements, or they should be??It appears to be a direct reaction to the health claims being made by the Truehope corporation. By claiming that the nutritional package is a treatment for specific (mental) disorders, they violate laws limiting health claims to drugs which have passed through rigorous clinical trials. There have been no clinical trials of EMPower+. Published references in the literature are all open-label case-reports, the scientific equivalent to anecdote.
The exact issues are not really clear. Truehope has published a rebuttal on their website which makes numerous references to boron, but I can't find anything in the Health Canada publications which refers to that substance.
By the way, I don't know where Squiggles got the link she made to JW. I've seen no religious link in anything I've read, and I'd consider it irrelevant if I did find one.
Lar
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