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Edited by George V. Mann. 149 pp., illustrated. London, Janus, 1993. $17.95. ISBN 1-85756-072-8. (Distributed in the U.S. by Paul and Company, Concord, Mass).

This is clearly a book with a point of view, and it must be read as such. It contains the views of members of the Veritas Society, who met in November 1991 to voice their objections to the diet-heart hypothesis (linking diet to heart disease), which they believe is "based upon fragile and selected data." The society was apparently formed to focus these specific objections with a "call for a return to scientific and informational honesty." Dr. George Mann writes in the preface that "the regulatory agencies have been derelict in their duties, allowing fraudulent health claims to continue in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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