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" I love Marion Nestle&amp;#039;s blog on TheAtlantic.com&amp;#039;s new Food channel. She&amp;#039;s so unapologetic\u2026and refreshing, but not refreshing because she&amp;#039;s unapologetic. I always seem to feel just ready enough for whatever she&amp;#039;s delving into. Most often, rather than, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been reading a lot about this,&amp;quot; my first reaction to her blog is &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been thinking a lot about this.&amp;quot; And I suppose that&amp;#039;s why she&amp;#039;s as respected as she is\u2014a political foodie in every sense. This week, she called out the over-promotion of antioxidants. She says that companies introduced nearly 300 new antioxidant-labeled products into the U.S. this past year\u2014all despite the lack of evidence that additional antioxidants (those we don&amp;#039;t already get from foods like fruits and veggies) make people any healthier. In fact, she said, an over abundance of antioxidants may actually do some harm. It&amp;#039;s never even really occurred to me that, before this, my entire knowledge of antioxidants was based on food labels. If I picked up a drink that said it contained antioxidants, I&amp;#039;d then read the label to find out how the product would be helpful (boost my energy, offer piece of mind, etc). Whatever it said I assumed was cause and effect of the antioxidant it advertised\u2014right? I mean, what else in the drink would be supplying these health benefits? I&amp;#039;m thinking I&amp;#039;m probably not alone on this one.  But that&amp;#039;s exactly Nestle&amp;#039;s point. The marketing has become so competitive that even unprocessed fruits and veggies have been pressured into the same type of advertising\u2014even though, their&amp;#039;s may be the only antioxidants proven to support the disease-fighting, life-lengthening claims that supplemental antioxidant products are making.\u2013Brynn Mannino "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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