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Do You Trust Consumer Reports?

The vast majority answered ‘yes’ to the above question. They felt that when Consumer Reports testing was published concerning specific items, they should be taken to heart. Most consumers felt that results posted by Consumer Reports should be trusted to provide them with reliable information about products, so that they could make good purchasing decisions.

If you have also been one to trust Consumer Reports to help you make your purchasing decisions, then you may want to read this:

“Recent Consumer Reports Study on Protein Drinks Flawed”

On June 2, 2010 in the July issue of Consumer Reports magazine there was a published review on drinks. This review included an analysis of heavy metals found in these products.

The results claimed that all of the protein drinks tested contained at least one dangerous heavy metal .
From those results, most of us would conclude: “ I am staying away from protein drinks!”

Here are the problems with ‘trusting’ the above. It’s not that the information is inaccurate, but they failed to provide the consumer with the ‘whole picture’. Once you have all the facts, your opinion regarding protein drinks will most likely change, and your opinion and trust level regarding Consumer Reports may also change!

Here are the missing pieces to the report:

1. The levels of heavy metal found in these drinks fell far below the amounts which are found in many foods! From many previous studies conducted by the FDA and other independent labs there are much greater levels of these metals found in our food supply. These amounts have not caused concern and have not engendered any warnings regarding the safety of these foods.

2. The levels of metals found in these protein drinks are below the US standards. That is, they all fell below the Provisional Total Tolerable Intake (PTTI) level for what is known to be tolerable. The definition of ‘tolerable’ under this standard means: ‘the level at which the body can metabolize and excrete the metals efficiently enough at that dose that it does not present a health problem.’

3. This Consumer Reports study is NOT a peer-review study. Peer-review is necessary in university and government scientific settings to ensure the accuracy and the precision of results.
When all the parts of the puzzle are present , it appears that the amount of heavy metal found in protein drinks is actually less than that found in the foods you eat and in addition, they are well below the national safety level.

We all have enough to be concerned about when it comes to consuming healthy foods and beverages. The last thing we need is a ‘trusted’ publication promoting articles that appear to have scientific validity in order to fuel the public’s worry. Or was that done to sell more issues?

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