A Shift By the Traditional Media on Nutritional Supplements?
Monday, January 23, 2006 at 09:31AM The traditional media have over the years tended to take a cynical approach to "alternative" health approaches and the nutritional supplements and emphasis on prevention that are often part of alternative treatments. Many seemed to take delight in scientific studies that questioned the benefits of vitamin E or echinachea (and failing to point out possible weaknesses in the study methodologies).
But in just the last few weeks, we've seen signs of a 180-degree shift. Newsweek in its Jan. 16 issue devoted 41 pages to a special section entitled, "Health for Life: Vitamins and Your Diet". (Never mind that the special section's major advertisers were Big Pharma, touting various drugs to reduce cholesterol and relieve asthma.) The New York Times, on its front page Jan. 11, had an article, "In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay", in which it chronicled how a hospital center offering preventive treatment was forced to shut down because it couldn't make money; the profits come to the hospitals that perform amputations and other serious procedures to deal with the complications of diabetes. The most surprising evidence came in the Jan. 21-27 issue of The Economist, the staid chronicler of international business and economic developments. Its cover pointed readers to, not one, but two, pieces under the heading, "Eat More Fish Oil". The articles both related to a new study suggesting that mothers of children who consumed more of the omega-3 contained in fish oil had higher IQs and better sociability than under-consumers. One of the articles was an editorial that concluded, "...environmental damage wrought in the womb is as irreversible as the effects of bad genes. It is surely cheaper to make interventions that have an impact early on than to react later." Ah, the compelling force of economic logic.
Surely more such media shifting is to come as evidence mounts that nutritional voids in our diets likely create huge long-term health risks.
Reader Comments (3)
Ellie
http://www.phat2fit.com
I drink Raw Colostrum and all the other Raw products
Organic Pastures has...
I really think the government needs to look at the whole thing..
Has Raw milk ever killed anyon????
But, I can't say that about some of the people that have gotton the Swine Flu Shot!!!!
Many people are getting sick from the government so-called flu shot..
and so on...
The people of the United States need to stand up and take back our farm land and dairies so we can be a self~sufficant Nation again...
We are lost in the computer era and fast food junk..
If you look and see what sells is fast food (processed= no nutrition) as you can see what is has done to our society..We morbidly OBESE!!! And now the Government & President now wants to step in and try and solve a no brainer solution....Well, DAH!!!!
Eat Raw Healthy Foods!!!!!!!!!
A simple fix Mr President.. jus as you are doing on your own lawn.. Growing Organic Foods yourself!!!
Well, what about us???
Why do we have to suffer havin all our fruits and veggis sprayed with unknown chemicals.???
Why are most of our foods coming from other countries????
I don't get it???
And we are out of work??
Well farming brings back our food supply and jobs too!!
Not road construction that is not needed in some areas.. ...
But, when the government wants to cripple our supply of good wholesome food we are gonna do nothing but die a slow miserable death of sickness due to unhealthy eating habits...
And it is all our faults for not taking a stand and saying...
WE WON'T STAND FOT IT ANYMORE!!!!
EAT RAW EAT HEALTHY...
Ellie
http://www.phat2fit.com
Shame on you WHOLE FOODS!!!!
You lost my vote!!!
Trader Joe's get my business....
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