Re: Happy and Luella

Did a quick web search on the book and Phyllis – this was one of the first things I encountered:

The book's back cover describes Phyllis Balch as "a certified nutritional consultant who received her certification from the American Association of Nutritional Consultants and has been a leading nutritional consultant for almost two decades." She also founded "Good Things Naturally,"a health-food store in Greenfield, Indiana. AANC is a thoroughly disreputable organization whose only membership requirement has been payment of a $50 fee and whose "CNC" designation is based on passage of an open-book examination based mainly on the contents of quacky books.

…From a scientific viewpoint, the book's advice is loony from beginning to end, but the dietary supplement industry loves it because it enables retailers to refer their customers to an "authoritative" source of advice for nearly every problem the customer may have.

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I take it with a grain of salt
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