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Default Consumer Reports and miracles

On Jan 31, 7:00*am, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:04:05 GMT, James Silverton wrote:
> > I received an offer from Consumer Reports yesterday to try to
> > induce me to subscribe to "Consumer Reports on Health". I'm
> > always a bit suspicious about "miracle vitamins" (my quotes
> > since their miraculous nature seems to come and go) but one
> > maxim suggested from a "Professor of Nutrition" was as follows.

>
> > Avoid packaged foods with more than five ingredients and be sure
> > you get enough B vitamins.

>
> Sounds like a stupid, baseless criteria.
>
> Anything with enriched flour will automatically contain more than
> 5 ingredients, for starters.
>
> Besides, it's not like more ingredients will cancel out the
> nutrients of other ingredients.


But some of those extra ingredients are not all that good for you.
I try to avoid pre-packaged foods.

I don't mind real ingredients, but I don't want to see chemicals in
the list.

Scott