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OVER-THE-COUNTER LAXATIVES

Many of them should possibly be taken off store shelves because they may be dangerous due to unpredictable side effects! Supposedly, the safer, more effective ones will contain "silium" as an active ingredient. By all the advertisements you see you may never know there are some potential health risks associated with taking over-the-counter laxatives!

In fact, one ingredient used for more than 90 years in common, over-the-counter laxatives is said to possibly cause cancer in laboratory rats. Rats fed high doses of the chemical compound, phenolphthalein, an ingredient found some laxatives, developed deadly lymphomas or incurable cancerous tumors after just 6 months use!

The Food And Drug Administration (FDA) may take years to decide to restrict or modify the use of many commercially sold, over-the-counter or prescription drugs especially if the profiteering drug companies can have any influence in the matter.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: MIAMI HERALD NEWSPAPER 5/1/97

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