And also because of what Mike Adams said in a December 17, 2013, Natural News article: "Mainstream media reporters are, by and large, outrageously ignorant about nutrition, isolated nutrients, whole foods, the games Big Pharma plays, the corruption of the science journals and so on." [1]
The most recent supplement and multivitamin attacks got a lot of favorable press. And they gave the ghoulish Dr. Paul Offit of "babies can tolerate 1,000 vaccinations at the same time" fame another platform for promoting his new book that rails against vitamin and mineral supplements, herbs and Linus Pauling. [2]
Although not with same impact as the attacks on supplements that were featured in several major mainstream outlets, a counterattack has been launched and recently published as a study in the peer-reviewed Nutrition Journal.
Naturally, the lamestream media hasn't run with the story and probably won't even walk with it.
Here's what the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) published
The study was titled "Health Habits and Other Characteristics of Supplement Users."CRN conducted a mega-study of 20 different peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and found that, "overall, the evidence suggests that users of dietary supplements are seeking wellness and are consciously adopting a variety of lifestyle habits that they consider to contribute to healthy living."
CRN noted that over half of US supplement users were covered in the 20 studies they reviewed. Contrary to the notions spread by supplement naysayers, most of those surveyed used supplement-based strategies to bolster better food choices instead of using supplements to replace the nutritional void from poor food choices and sedentary lifestyles.
In other words, supplement users were not ignoring food for nutrition. The mega-study determined that those who took supplements also made better nutritional choices with foods than their non-supplement consumer counterparts, who usually made poorer food choices.
The study revealed that enriching or fortifying foods helped increase nutritional values, but combining supplements with whole foods had more impact toward increasing nutritional intake. There was no mention of organic food comparisons in the CRN press release. [3]
But the study's bottom line that supplement users were more concerned about taking responsibility for their health and were doing so successfully could be what the medical mafia doesn't want others to know. Ya think?
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