Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements
3Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements
This guide seeks to educate consumers about the science and value of nutritional supplementation, and to provide them with a simple, reliable tool with which to compare nutritional products. Section I: Aging, Oxidative Stress and Degenerative Disease Section I of this guide discusses the theories of aging and the intricate links between aging, oxidative stress and degenerative disease. The remarkable protective powers of the endogenous and dietary antioxidants and their role in mitigating the
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Shadar
Great Book—despite some of the skewed reviews,
Over all, I thought the book was excellent. I took the time to read several of the previous reviews and have to comment on one in particular. The one by Mr. Marcel Raffoul “Honest Citizen”. First and foremost the review section is supposed to be a reviews of books and not of the company that is rated #1 in the book.
I did some research on some of his accusations against USANA by Mr. Raffoul. Here’s is what I found.
1. Dr. Lyle is NOT on the board of directors. You can look at the board of directors on the USANA web site.
2. The “Independent Assessment” of USANA says nothing more than USANA is an MLM company. He acts like this is a bad thing. They say on their web site they are a direct/MLM company and talk about the benefits of cutting out middle men to help keep costs down on their pharmaceutical grade products. Their products are pricey but I guess you get what you pay for and would be outrageous if you had to pay for distribution, waehousing and transportion, etc…. but I digress.
3. I also looked at Mr. Marcel Raffoul’s other reviews and noticed that some of the books he reviewed were on Direct Selling and MLM stategies which indicates that he is probably in networm marketing, probably in a competitive company.
4. I also read that Maleuca accusations as well as the rebuttal. The rebuttal stated that the original accusations were derived from a previous edition (Edition 2) and since then they went to other independent labratories to ask what other criteria the vitamins could be tested on. These reponses were incorporated into the testing procedures and from what I could determine in the comparison would take the possibility of Dr. McWilliams to skew the results out of the equation and therefore indicates that Maleuca is simply irritated that McWilliams revealed that their products are lacking in quality.
Another note on Centrum. Centrum is the biggest selling vitamin in the U.S. and apparently in Australia as well. It is well documented that as far as absorbability, it is severely lacking. I have talked to several nurses that call Centrum “bed pan bullets” because in patients that use them and use a bed pan, you can still read “Centrum” on the pill when it comes out. Yes, Centrum is much cheaper but again…you get what you pay for. If you want cheap vitamins, that don’t work DON’T READ THIS BOOK, go down to WalGreens and buy the cheapest vitamin on the shelf…..you’ll save a lot of money that way.
After doing a lot or research on the accuracy and claims by other reviewers, I believe the book and it’s rating system are excellent. In addition, the book will teach you a lot on how vitamins work, oxidative stress in the body and how it promotes degenerative diseases. It will also teach you alot about anti-oxidants in supplements and how they prevent degenerative disease as well as how supplements are absobed in the body. I would consider this is a MUST READ book for anyone that is interested in their health.
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|Don Wilson
Best I’ve Found,
My wife and I have taken nutritional supplements for years. It’s always been ‘up to me’ to determine what brands are the best. I used to be a distributor for USANA nutritionals (rated #1 in this book) and then switched to Life Extension Foundation products (also rated high in this book). It was reassuring to me that by my own discernment, I had chosen the best. I have never found a book so complete and thorough as this book on rating nutritional supplements. I did read in one of the other reviews on this book, that someone had a problem with Denis Waitley reviewing the book when he was in fact, associated with USANA. Why? If that person took the time to do a little research, they would have found that other Doctors that made their own personal recommendations for the purpose of establishing a ‘Blended Standard’, were associated with several different companies. i.e. Dr. Michael Colgan is the Director of the Colgan Institute of Nutritional Science in San Diego and promotes his own brand of nutritional supplements. However, he’s also associated with USANA. And Dr. Julian Whitaker, Director of the Whitaker Wellness Instituee, Inc in Newport Beach, CA, also promotes his own brand of nutritional supplements. Dr. Michael Murray, N.D. is associated with Natural Factors, a Canadian based nutritional supplement company. These doctors and others, all made their own suggestions as to what they thought went into making up the ‘best’ supplements. Then, an average was taken to determine the ‘Blended Standard’ to assess over 1000 supplement manufacturers products. This was boiled down to the best 500 and then charted in this book. USANA topped the list. So who would YOU have writing a testimonial for the book? Someone who represents a manufacturer that finished 500th? This is by far, the best book I’ve found on comparing nutritional supplements and their manufacturers.
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|K. Le
Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements,
I know there has been a lot of criticism to this book since many say that Lyle has ties to Usana. If Lyle wants to sell his book, why would he put in the book that he works with Usana, Douglas Laboratories, Life Extensions Foundations and Source Naturals, knowing that there are people who are going to think differently after reading the book. If Lyle was interested in the money of selling the book, he wouldn’t have written that information in there. Plus, if Usana or Douglas Laboratories was paying Lyle money to put their products as top of the line, why would he say he works with them? Wouldn’t that cause a problem with trusting the book in general? I think he wrote it down because he takes pride in the companies he works with. This is just my opinion. There is this document posted by Melaleuca called, “Getting to the bottom of the Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements.” Melaleuca critiques the book on six pages. Anyone who has questions about the blending standards, or about the book in general should read it.
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