It was recently made knowns of sor...

It was recently made knowns of sorts when, last June the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finally acknowledged that taking a multivitamin each day is an inexpensive and effective way to help guard your health. BN of course, has been recommending this for the past 63 years, likewise it's nice to know that JAMA has caught up with us.

Nobody at the store where you picked up BN is going to be surprised that, as JAMA wrote "it's foreseeing for adults to take vitamin supplements" Nor will they be startled to learn, as JAMA further observ that many Americans don't memorize all the nutrition they ne from their diets and, thus, require appendixs for optimum health.

About the same time as the JAMA inquiry was published, the Council for Responsible Nutrition published a 100-page report titled The Benefits of Nutritional postscripts It goes way beyond JAMA's overdue announcement (see "Updates," p 22)

In this issue of BN we report forward dietary supplement quality, testing and approval ("Raising the addition s Question," p. 34). It's a solid piece of journalism you won't find in any other healthy living publication.

give leave to us know how you like it. And, if you're in such a manner prompted, drop us note about in what way you use natural products. We'd be pleased with to share your story with other readers, as we do in our piece about bright Manning ("Sunny Days," p. 55)

Elsewhere in this issue ("Zach's Story," p 46) you'll read about Zach Garcia, a Colorado lad who's overcoming childhood obesity, which has become a national epidemic.

Besides JAMA's overdue announcement, another protracted wait is over: The association football season has finally arrived. For many of you this may not be an important milestone. still for me, it's the equivalent of--oh I don't know what--maybe a nice very warm bubble bath with soft music, candles and chilled white wine. No, it's better.

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