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Nature Valley brand targeted in ‘natural’ lawsuit

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Aug. 1, 2012

General Mills may be in hot water due to a lawsuit over their Nature Valley brand. The latest “natural lawsuit” leads us to question who is responsible for feeding us unhealthy foods: ourselves or food companies?

And let the “natural” games continue.

Two California mothers are suing General Mills in regards to its Nature Valley brand, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Fed up with deceptive marketing surrounding Nature Valley—depicted in its television commercials, social media ...

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Drug Firms Form Vitamin Cartel

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Drug Firms Form Vitamin Cartel

On page 2 we mentioned that new ONHP regulations might better serve multinationals and pharmaceutical giants than small, independent vitamin and mineral manufacturers. If “natural health products• end up largely manufactured by multinationals, we could expect to pay through the nose with price-fixing and artificially high values put on (as we noted also on page 2) low dosage product.

An Associated Press story in late November reported on a record setting $752 million-US fine against eight chemical and drug companies by ...

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Excess Risks Due to Beta-Carotene Supplementation Persist After Discontinuing Use

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Excess Risks Due to Beta-Carotene Supplementation Persist After Discontinuing Use

By Karla Gale

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Nov 30 – The adverse effects of dietary supplementation with beta-carotene and retinyl palmitate on the incidence of lung cancer and mortality in smokers seem to persist for years after supplements are stopped, investigators report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for December 1.

The Beta-Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial (CARET) tested the effects of daily beta-carotene (30 mg) and retinyl palmitate (25,000 IU) on subjects with a history of smoking or asbestos ...

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Vitamin Supplements Tied to Higher Death Rates *Headlines*

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Vitamin Supplements Tied to Higher Death Rates *Headlines*

Vitamin Supplements Tied to Higher Death Rates in Older Women in Study

By Elizabeth Lopatto – Oct 10, 2011

Multivitamins and some dietary supplements, used regularly by an estimated 234 million U.S. adults, may do more harm than good, according to a study that tied their use to 17% higher death rates among older women

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March 31, 2010

Your multivitamin can give you cancer

CNN Medical Associate Producer

A new study with an alarming headline has been published in the American Journal of ...

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Vitamins Can Kill

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Vitamins Can Kill

Study: Vitamins Shown to Not Work and Cause Harm. 2008

Note: ALL THE FOLLOWING STUDIES USED MAN-MADE SYNTHETIC CHEMICALS MADE BY DRUG COMPANIES. ZERO STUDIES USED NATURAL FORMS OFTHE VITAMIN DERIVED FROM PLANTS  (this fact goes 100% unmentioned in the studies).

NOTE: I have preached against synthetics for 27 years. Every major disease increased in people taking “vitamins” in the past 70 years. No one wants to talk about it. If people knew the truth, they wouldn’t spend 20 billion on “mainstream” ...

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