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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 09:41 PM
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Health food store advice not scientific: study
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/06/08/con-health-study.html

"A Canadian study has found that staff in health food stores routinely give advice aimed at selling expensive supplements instead of supporting the health of the consumer.

The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, was conducted by Athabasca University between 2002 and 2008.

University students visited 192 health food stores and 56 pharmacies across Canada seeking advice on supplements and specific medical conditions.

In 88 per cent of cases the health food stores provided advice that was either unscientific or poorly supported by science.

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Imagine that? And yet I hear about the "great advice" so and so got about supplement X at the health food store on a regular basis.

:hi:
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 09:44 PM
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1. No kidding...
my dear sweet neighbors fall for this crap every time. Last week their doctor told them to only take a multivitamin and that the other garbage they were taking might interfere with their prescription meds. I was so happy about that. I hate to see good people taken advantage of.
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 09:51 PM
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3. Alas, people of all ages fall for it.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 09:45 PM
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2. Anybody that heads to a HFS or a GNC type store uninformed is just asking for bad advice.
Know what you're putting in your body and why. Best advice anyone can possibly get/give. That goes for the health food stores, the GNC type places, the gym employed personal trainers, the ads in magazines...
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 09:59 PM
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4. Anyone who heads there is a meatball short of a sandwich...
I get all the supplements I want from Puritan or Rite-Aid at a third the price, and I suspect it's better stuff.

Yeah, they, too, sell things like bilberry extract for those who want it for some inexplicable reason, but there's no hippy-like creature telling you that it will cure the lost night vision that comes with aging.

(Or that you can dump your scrips because of a magic potion they sell...)
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 10:35 PM
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6. Docs in town sent people to the store I worked in
because I was well known to tell people that anything more than the RDA was snake oil that would give them expensive urine and a depleted bank account but no other effects.

I was there more for my cooking ability. The store owners just laughed, they knew the pill heads would go for the super ultra high dose stress stuff that had the highest price tag, no matter what.

There's not much you can do for a true believer. The rest got their maternal vitamins, calcium and Vitamin D pills in sensible doses.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 10:38 PM
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7. Speaking off, been looking at supplemts recently
Edited on Wed Jun-09-10 10:40 PM by nadinbrzezinski
it is mostly the shinny... err ADD has taken a turn for the worst... yes it comes with age.

What is the RDA of Tyrosine?

Read all the side effects of Gilko and went... nope, I take aspirin....

and on the google it is low... wow, VERY LOW.... eat more nuts.

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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 10:05 PM
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5. Dude, brah, I want to be totally ripped
Edited on Wed Jun-09-10 10:06 PM by XemaSab
for spring break! :o

You don't think this is a good opening line for teh GNC?
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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 11:17 PM
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8. Um.... yeah.
Did you really need a study to show this?

Sorry dumb question. The true believers are going to buy whatever they're told and damn the science. The people on the fence who don't know any better are the ones that should be reached, though, so I guess I can't fault the study writers.

Q3JR4.
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 12:06 AM
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9. Study is always needed.
The expected results are not always the actual results.
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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 03:41 AM
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16. Well this study I just found
Edited on Fri Jun-11-10 03:41 AM by Q3JR4
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/">over here says that most studies are wrong.

Of course if it's true, then we have one of them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox">logic puzzles on our hands.

Q3JR4.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 01:31 AM
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10. But... But... But that suggests that the guy at the car dealership may not
have given me the best info about that other dealership's cars, and I might not look as good in this shirt as the girl at the clothing store said I do. I'm so confused...
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 02:37 AM
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11. Did anyone really think that an $8 hr clerk at GNC was the one to ask for healthcare advice?
:rofl:
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 08:46 AM
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12. Yes, more than one anyone, in fact.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18570_6-companies-that-make-money-solving-problems-they-made-up.html
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ThomThom Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 09:06 AM
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13. They can't make medical claims
get it on tape and turn them in
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 10:38 AM
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14. and don't get me started about hair salons
Talk about selling expensive "prescription" products based on unscientific claims!
:mad:


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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 10:42 AM
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15. Don't use the stuff from those stores. Nothing in bottles, particularly
if it is part of the latest I gonna live forever fad. I do buy organic staples (flour, sugar/stevia, produce, dairy, and meat) locally produced as much as possible. I use plant based cleaning products and a local woman makes the lavender goats milk soap I use from milk she gets from her goats and lavender which she and I grow. We grow as much produce as possible each year and I freeze the excess. People don't need to live on magic pills.
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