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Comment by Andrew W. Saul

Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

(OMNS, Mar 31, 2010) Reader's Digest's editors cannot possibly be as
ignorant as their April 2010 article "5 Vitamin Truths and Lies" seems
to indicate.

Or can they?

Surely their silly attempt at vitamin-bashing is merely an April
Fool's joke.

Isn't it?

Read over "5 Vitamin Truths and Lies" and decide for yourself. It is
online at http://www.rd.com/living-healthy/5-vitamin-truths-and-lies/article175625.html
Be sure to note readers' comments following the article. You may wish
to leave a comment or two of your own.

Reader's Digest's circulation, by the way, is dropping rapidly. Once,
it had a circulation of 18 million. (1) Just a few years ago, it had a
circulation of 8 million. It is now 5.5 million. (2) The magazine is
also no longer published every month, but is down to 10 issues a year.

Furthermore, Reader's Digest posted a loss of $653 million in only
nine months of last year, and the company is in debt for a whopping $2.1
billion. (2)

Perhaps they are getting desperate for cash. At least that might
explain the 15 pages of pharmaceutical advertising in their April 2010
issue.

Peer-reviewed research shows that pharmaceutical advertising does in
fact bias periodicals against vitamin therapy. (3)

A laughably-biased article such as "5 Vitamin Truths and Lies"
confirms it.

To send your thoughts directly to the Reader's Digest editors: RDEditorial_RDW@ReadersDigest.com

When you've done so, please feel free to send us a copy of your
correspondence with RD: omns@orthomolecular.org. A sampling of your letters
will be selected for the next OMNS.

To learn more about how vitamins safely and effectively fight
disease: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml

 
References:
(1) US History Encyclopedia, accessed at http://www.answers.com/topic/reader-s-digest

(2) Flamm M. Reader's Digest cuts circulation, expands digital
options. June 19, 2009. http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090619/FREE/906199993

(3) Pharmaceutical advertising biases journals against vitamin
supplements. Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Feb 5, 2009. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v05n02.shtml

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