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Diet pills may come under regulation
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
couple whose daughter died af
ter years of diet pill abuse
asked a congressional panel
Monday to push for restrictions
on non-prescription weight loss
drugs
"She might have had a
chance had these products been
denied her as a child." said
Anthony and Diana Smith, of
State Center. Iowa.
Noelle Smith. 20. died a year
ago of cardiac arrest after strug
gling since she was 14 with the
eating disorder anorexia nervo
sa. which is an avoidance of
food, and bulimia, which in
volves binging and purging.
"She was constantly sneak
ing diet products into the
house." said Mr. Smith. "Ev
ery time we found and took
from Noelle a box of diet pills,
laxatives or diuretics, she
would go to the corner store
and buy a new supply."
Jessica McDonald. 20. of
Washington, D.C.. said she suf
fered from the same eating dis
orders as a teenager and regu
larly consumed whole boxes of
non-prescription diet pills at a
time
“Even though I went to the
drug store practically every day
to buy pills or some other prod
uct to help me lose weight, no
one ever tried to stop me or
asked what I wanted the pills
for." said McDonald.
She said that "at the very
least there should be an age re
striction to prevent young peo
ple from buying these drugs "
Vivian Hanson Meehan, pres
ident of the National Associa
tion of Anorexia Nervosa and
Associated Disorders, said at
least one of 10 adolescents en
gage in dangerous eating disor
ders as they try to diet.
Meehan also decried the
availability of diet pills.
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drug phenylpropanolamine, or
FPA, pose an additional and
very serious health risk to ado
lescents." she said.
The drug is in most of the
numerous, popular noii-pre
scription diet products used by
about 10 million consumers a
year. Many medical authorities
say it can cause high blood
pressure, kidney disease, heart
muscle damage, heart rhythm
abnormalities and seizures
The Smiths, McDonald and
Meehan were among witnesses
testifying before the House
Small Business subcommittee,
which has been investigating
the weight loss industry.
A report from the subcom
mittee staff noted a University
of San Francisco study of 500
girls which showed almost half
the 9-year*olds and 80 percent
of those age 10 and 11 were di
eting. even though just 17 per
cent of the group was over
weight
Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Or
egon. has been after the Federal
Trade Commission and the
Food and Drug Administration
to crack down on shady diet
practices.
He said the FTC has 14 inves
tigations under way of diet
companies and diet programs.
But he criticized the FDA for
being lax on enforcement.
“For almost a decade, the
FDA has dawdled over regula
tions that would make it illegal
to sell diet products containing
about 100 ineffective ingredi
ents,” said Wyden.
Spotted owl in danger
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration still has
no realistic plan to save the northern spotted owl, having
wasted three months trying to “chart a political course
around the Endangered Species Act,” the Senate majority
leader said Monday.
Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine. blasted the recommenda
tions of the White House task force on the threatened owl dur
ing a Senate floor speech, warning the proposals would be
unacceptable to Congress.
He said lawmakers would have no part of the proposals to
alter the Endangered Species Act or insulate timber sales from
other environmental laws.
“The administration says that the plan it has developed
strikes a balance between conservation and economic con
cerns.” Mitchell said.
"But what kind of balance is there in a plan that seeks to
void every major environmental law governing management
of federal forest lands?” he asked.
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has been sounded by disabling the warning mechanism To
do so would be an unforgivable dereliction of our duty to this
country's natural heritage and to our descendants," the sena
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