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Dietary Supplements
Dietary supplements are products that include vitamins, herb, botanicals, amino acids, extracts, concentrates, constituents, metabolite or a combination of more than one of the listed used as a form of increasing daily intake for specific results. Dietary supplements are classified as a food category within the United States. However, unlike typical food, dietary supplements are only in pill, tablet, liquid form, or as a capsule, and should not be a substitute for eating regular food.
Dietary supplements do not have to be approved by the FDA in order for them to be sold to consumers. However, dietary supplements are required to have appropriate labeling as a dietary supplement. Only at a point to where a product is proved as unsafe is it then examined and removed from store shelves.
Consumers have become more aware of regulations involving dietary supplements in the past ten years. Before recent years, many people believed that if something was on the store shelf, it was safe to consume. However, as knowledge has been spread to the consumers, we are now more aware of what supplements are possibly helpful for our diets. We also have a better understanding of what labels truly mean helping us avoid false ideas of the safety and helpfulness of unregulated dietary supplements.
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Yahoo! News Search Results for Dietary Supplements
Yahoo! News Search Results for Dietary Supplements
Dietary Supplements Discouraged For Prostate Cancer Patients (Medical News To...
Prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken during radiation therapy treatments because they have been shown to increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications, according to a study in the March issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation ...
Dietary supplements discouraged for prostate cancer patients (Science Daily)
Prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken during radiation therapy treatments because they have been shown to increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications, according to a new study.
Prostate cancer patients should not take dietary supplements (Sify News)
Researchers at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, have suggested that during radiation therapy treatments prostate-specific dietary supplements should not
Prostate cancer patients should not take dietary supplements (New Kerala)
Washington, Mar 9 : Researchers at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, have suggested that during radiation therapy treatments prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken as they increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications.
Dietary supplements discouraged for prostate cancer patients (EurekAlert!)
( American Society for Radiation Oncology ) Prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken during radiation therapy treatments because they have been shown to increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications, according to a study in the March issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, the official ...
Supplements may hurt prostate treatment (UPI)
ROYAL OAK, Mich., March 10 (UPI) -- Some dietary supplements may harm rather than help prostate cancer patients, U.S. researchers say.
Himalaya Intl enters nutraceuticals, supplements mkt (Business Standard India)
Himalya International today announced its entry into nutraceuticals and dietary supplements market. The company has launched nutritional supplement under brand name 1 daily in Delhi NCR. It has tied up with Global Reliance Inc for technical collaborations and has launched four products under the brand name 1 daily.
McCain abandons dietary supplement regulation bill (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Arizona Sen. John McCain has backed away from his own bill that sought to increase federal regulations on dietary supplement makers at the urging of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Day care workers accused of giving kids sleep supplements (ABC 13 Houston)
Two former day care workers have been charged with slipping an over-the-counter dietary supplement into candy and giving it to their charges at nap time
Nurse Practitioners to Patients: Can We Talk? (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Eighty-five percent of nurse practitioners agree that one of the roles of healthcare professionals is to provide their patients with information about dietary supplements, according to new research from the "Life...supplemented" 2009 Healthcare Professionals Impact Study. Â
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