Consumer Reports magazine: July 2010

[Vicious Cycle]

Consumer Reports magazine: July 2010

So what do you guys think of this report about protein shakes and heavy metals?

http://pressroom.consumerreports.org/pressroom/2010/06/investigation-tests-reveal-contaminants-in-many-protein-drinks.html


Sorry if this is a re-post.

 

[phudecki]

why do they make everything bad for us?

 

[Grizzly]

Because bad news sells and creates a stir.

Remember the mercury in tuna thing? Yeah, over the last decade I have averaged 5 cans/day. Of the albacore. The especially "bad" one.

I'm fine.

 

[phudecki]

id hardly call u fine
mr i get hit by a car twice a month

 

[d5332]

I rather eat chicken breast all day even if I have to grease it up with mustard, ketchup, hot sauce, what ever to make it go down...

Everything now is bad for you, especially redi-mix, on the go, fast food, microwaveable stuff.

 

[Demigod]

Who wants to live forever anyway,lol....sooner or later everything around us is bad for us. Like Grizz says someone is just looking for 15 minutes of fame.

 

[Phreezer]

I'm not a fan of FDA regulation but it is needed in the supplement business. Almost none of the products we buy ever have what the label claims.

There is nothing other than voluntary testing to ever prove these guys put what they say is in there products. And they have spent a lot of money lobbying our congressmen to make sure there is no government oversight so they can continue to lay stuff on their labels like "May improve sexual performance.. Studies show this product may reduce heart disease.. Studies show this product may reduce cancer.. and so on and so fourth.. They'll make billions selling their snake oil.

This is one of those things that really irritate the hell out of me.