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Re: _health journal_ column in today's wsj's marketplace sectio
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rdshydur@MIT.EDU)
Tue May 9 09:31:21 1995
From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
To: Lewis Haddow <9235367@arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: vsg@MIT.EDU, rdshydur@fille.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 1995 14:05:03 -0000."
Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 09:26:58 EDT
From: Lewis Haddow <9235367@arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: _health journal_ column in today's wsj's marketplace
And furthermore, I HATE vitamin supplements. They're a bigger,
dirtier money-raking scheme than factory farming.
well, here's another piece of the article, continuing quoting ames:
"one day, he predicts, doctors will test blood levels for folic acid
and vitamin c, then hand patients their nutrient score. with a
paper printout, he says, `it's more real.'
"what about supplements? dr. ames says, `multivitamins are ok.
i take one after dinner as cheap insurance. but we don't know
enough to advocate huge doses of supplements.'
and, quoting hennekens again:
"wholesale diets aren't a quick fix, acknowledges harvard's dr.
hennekens. `unfortunately, people in the u.s. tend to prefer
a pre-scription of drugs, rather than the pro-scription (my
hyphen-ation) of harmful lifestyles,' he says."
article closes:
"the seeds of current research promise a bumper crop of insights
in the next decade. the outcome is more likely to be the ensemble
of players at a dinner table than the solo actors in a pill bottle."
- r
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