NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/misc/fitness/9115

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From: [e-mail] (John Nelson)
Subject: Primrose Oil
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:51:00 +0000
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 Firstly, thanks to everyone who replied to my last posting a couple of weeks
ago about alternative biceps exercises. I meant to reply to everyone
individually but basically I'm a total louse and never got round to it. OTOH
I have taken all the advice to heart and my wrists haven't given me any
serious trouble since.

 I just started subscribing to Muscle Media 2000 (it's been getting more than
it's share of mentions on the group, along with a couple of personal
reccomendations.) and the Feb/March issue has a short article on the
importance of Essential Fatty Acids in muscle-building. Co-incidently a few
pages later there's what looks like a sponsored editorial comment
(=advertisement) saying that the FDA has banned Primrose Oil (a good source
of EFAs) but you can still get it from the NSA (what's that stand for?).
 I'm not altogether familiar with the system in the US so why has Primrose
Oil been banned? All I've ever heard about it being used for, for years and
years, was to ease period pain in women (doesn't do a thing for period pain
in men apparently.) Is that how it's billed in the US? I read on the group a
few months ago that amino acid tablets were going to get similar treatment.
Did they? Just what else is the FDA after?


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