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Old 10-27-2003, 12:23 PM   #6 (permalink)
bryanc
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Run. Away. Far, far away.

The company in question here is Pharmanex (http://www.pharmanex.com). They had an exhibit at this year's ACSM for their "biophotonic" scanner, which, they claimed, could detect whether you were nutritively healthly or not (i.e. if you had enough beta-carotenes and/or anti-oxidants); AND if not, could also sell you the vitamin packages to make you healthy as measured by their machine.

I went to their booth and asked the reps what evidence they had for the validity of their machine (you'd think that if you were sending reps to a conference _full_ of scientists, that you'd send some literature along). But like just about every other quacky booth there, they couldn't give me any.

You know, Coca-Cola also has Olympic endorsement by way of sponsorship. They get to put the rings on their products too.

Bryan (who has become jaded about the spirit of the Olympic movement, mostly, from being on committees with Dick Pound)
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