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    Exclamation A Super Dieters Tea Warning

    It contains Senna, a major diuretic, never go beyond the directions, you'll strip your body of all of it's electrolites, risk you healthy completely.

    I still have health issues from one over dose 3 years ago. And a woman died in the 1980's from a heart attack, not enough electrolites in her body!

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    Default Re: A Super Dieters Tea Warning

    is it called 'super dieters tea' .. cuz i don't think i've ever heard of any diet tea .. i mean other than the 'health benefits' etc etc of drinking green teas and such.

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    Yeah, its called "Super Dieters Tea"

    It is a laxative, diuretic....

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    oic ...

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    Default Re: A Super Dieters Tea Warning

    senna is a laxative, not a diuretic. as are cascara sagrada and turkey rhubarb.

    dandelion root and uva ursi are diuretics. k?

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    In the early 1990s June Grell began drinking an herbal tea to help her lose weight. After drinking Super Dieters Tea faithfully for several months, the athletic 37-year-old died suddenly in her sleep at her home in San Rafael, California -- a death that several physicians would later blame on the diet tea.
    What Grell didn't know was that the tea's active ingredient -- senna -- was a laxative whose long-term use, toxicologists say, can cause an electrolyte imbalance so serious it can lead to arrhythmia and heart failure. Despite senna's dangers, the tea's label didn't mention any possible side effects, or even that senna was a laxative. Calling the tea a "refreshing low-calorie beverage," the label warned only that it shouldn't be used during pregnancy. from
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    thank you thank you thank you for posting that. Last week i just purchased it at my local health food store and there were no warnings like that on the box. i should have known there was something wrong with that stuff when i started to get cramps

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    Quote Originally Posted by simone_24 View Post
    thank you thank you thank you for posting that. Last week i just purchased it at my local health food store and there were no warnings like that on the box. i should have known there was something wrong with that stuff when i started to get cramps

    Sweetie, I ended up taking anti-spasmotics from my Dr. for decending colon cramps. And what saved me is Potassium suppliments, like 3-4 regular over the counter pills a day. It stripped that electrolite right out of my body, as if I had enough to begin with. 3 years later I still have to take the pills most of the time to avoid these really painful cramps.
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    I bought this and had a bad reaction to it. My heart started racing and I felt dizzy and weird. I made myself throw it back up and I felt better. Dont forget- diet teas are not evaluated by the food and drug administration!

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    Quote Originally Posted by chrissy7701 View Post
    I bought this and had a bad reaction to it. My heart started racing and I felt dizzy and weird. I made myself throw it back up and I felt better. Dont forget- diet teas are not evaluated by the food and drug administration!
    Yes, they are dangerous. Senna should never be sold as a diet thing, it's dangerous to lack in potassium, I read up and people are very deficient in general and this lack likely contributes to heart problems in our country. Like other vitamin deficiencies cause other debilitating conditions people are so unaware of. Like the woman who played Superman's girlfriend in the first movie. She was diagnosed as bipolar, and got all of the essential vitamins back into her body for her brain and then got to go off all meds she was so normal again.
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    Chrissy7701 good point about the non FDA moderation. Ive used the same thing in the past and only have one cup and thats all for the whole day. I drink plenty of water as it 'cleanses' me. Things that are not moderated by the FDA are best for use at small doses to see how the body reacts to it or dont take it at all.
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    Default Re: A Super Dieters Tea Warning

    If the issue is simply about electrolytes, that can easily be overcome by drinking gatorade (or something similar) or ingesting anything with sodium. The situation you're describing with this tea is kind of the same situation as when you drink too much water.....it lowers the concentration of sodium in your blood and you can get hyponatremia and die.






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    I worked for two gastroenterologists with a high client profile in Manhattan for four years. I cannot tell you the countless number of models that would come through there for colonoscopies. The majority of them had destroyed their colons and the villi along the colon and intestinal walls, which comes with the use of long term laxative abuse. So it's not a matter of "replacing the electrolytes with gatorade or water." It can be a lot more dangerous than that.

    Cascara bark is one of the harshest herbs in the market. When taken long term, it can deteriorate parts of the lining from the esophagus through to the colon.

    Dieters tea DOES NOT cause weight loss. It makes you bloated and eventually constipated. We saw patients who were taking upwards of 32 laxative pills a day, along with drinking dieters tea and they STILL WERE NOT pooping!! This is at the point where drastic measures on their part were taken to control their bodies.

    All in all ---- not a good idea.

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    Default Re: A Super Dieters Tea Warning

    Quote Originally Posted by curvygirl View Post
    So it's not a matter of "replacing the electrolytes with gatorade or water."
    First of all, this is not what I said.

    I get what you're saying overall, curvygirl, but I was responding the the original post where she was only referring to having your body's electrolytes stripped away, as she put it. And for the record, please don't quote me as saying that you can replace them with water. It is overconsumption of water that dangerously lowers your electrolytes, causing hyponatremia.

    That is why I started my response by saying "If the issue is simply about electrolytes....". Because IF the problem is only about electrolytes, then I was offering my knowledge of that particular situation. But IF the situation is bigger than just electrolytes, then that's a whole different situation all together. I felt that by prefacing my post with "IF..." that would ward off responses like yours, as if I don't know what I'm talking about.

    But aside from that, it's nice to see other effects things like this can have on you aside from stripping your electrolytes. I personally have never been a fan of those types of drinks, but I know plenty of people who are so it's nice that this topic was brought up in the first place. I never would have thought of these side effects.






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