Pennies for Thoughts
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Take my vitamins? No thanks, I'd rather trust the government. http://www.mypyramid.gov/guidelines/index.html
Here's a money machine: convince some folks that (whatever) is essential to their well being and then sell it to them for the rest of their lives. The supplements industry in the USA is a $61 BILLION per year industry and growing. Never mind that responsible dietary sources explain that for the most part supplements simply make expensive urine.
There's a hole in U.S. law big enough to drive a 61 billion-dollar truck through. If a snake oil salesman says, "Take this medicine, it'll cure what ails you," he can go to prison. But if he says, "Take this food, it'll cure what ails you," all bets are off.
I was perusing a local "health food" store reading supplement label claims which, if they were true, would be winning Nobel Prizes, when I came across alfalfa supplements going for $5.49 for a bottle of 50. Whoa, Nellie! Eleven cents each for alfalfa pellets? Why not go down to the feed store and get rabbit food? A 25-pound sack of those alfalfa pellets only runs a buck a pound!
Perhaps the biggest tip-off that supplements are a scam is that powerful Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah has fought responsible supplement legislation for decades because supplements are the Mormon state's third largest industry. http://www.naturalnews.com/008034.html
Vitamins, minerals, and assorted weeds qualify as supplements. For more read Quackwatch's wordy but wonderful assessment of vitamins at http://www.quackwatch.org/search/webglimpse.cgi?ID=1&query=vitamins
Here's a money machine: convince some folks that (whatever) is essential to their well being and then sell it to them for the rest of their lives. The supplements industry in the USA is a $61 BILLION per year industry and growing. Never mind that responsible dietary sources explain that for the most part supplements simply make expensive urine.
There's a hole in U.S. law big enough to drive a 61 billion-dollar truck through. If a snake oil salesman says, "Take this medicine, it'll cure what ails you," he can go to prison. But if he says, "Take this food, it'll cure what ails you," all bets are off.
I was perusing a local "health food" store reading supplement label claims which, if they were true, would be winning Nobel Prizes, when I came across alfalfa supplements going for $5.49 for a bottle of 50. Whoa, Nellie! Eleven cents each for alfalfa pellets? Why not go down to the feed store and get rabbit food? A 25-pound sack of those alfalfa pellets only runs a buck a pound!
Perhaps the biggest tip-off that supplements are a scam is that powerful Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah has fought responsible supplement legislation for decades because supplements are the Mormon state's third largest industry. http://www.naturalnews.com/008034.html
Vitamins, minerals, and assorted weeds qualify as supplements. For more read Quackwatch's wordy but wonderful assessment of vitamins at http://www.quackwatch.org/search/webglimpse.cgi?ID=1&query=vitamins