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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
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Himalaya International Ltd. enters nutraceuticals and dietary supplements mar...
The Himalaya International Limited, India's first frozen food company, has entered the rapidly expanding nutraceuticals and dietary supplements market with the launch of its product under the brand name-'1 Daily'.
Stricter oversight of dietary supplements closer (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Stricter government oversight of dietary supplements is moving closer thanks to an agreement among senators to include guidelines in a food safety bill.
Stricter oversight of dietary supplements closer (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
Stricter government oversight of dietary supplements is moving closer thanks to an agreement among senators to include guidelines in a food safety bill. Four key areas of "common ground" are outlined in a letter sent by Sens. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, to Sen.
Himalaya International Ltd. enters nutraceuticals and dietary supplements mar...
New Delhi, Mar.12 : The Himalaya International Limited, India's first frozen food company, has entered the rapidly expanding nutraceuticals and dietary supplements market with the launch of its product under the brand name-'1 Daily'.
Majority of nurse practitioners recommend dietary supplements for overall hea...
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 (HCP) Impact Study.
Stricter oversight of dietary supplements closer (WKBT La Crosse)
Associated Press - March 10, 2010 8:44 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Stricter government oversight of dietary supplements is moving closer thanks to an agreement among senators to include guidelines...
Hatch, McCain reach deal on dietary supplements (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Washington » Senators have reached an agreement on more modest dietary supplement safeguards that would make it easier to crackdown on products that could hurt people.
McCain?s supplement bill raises some concerns (Northwest Herald)
CRYSTAL LAKE ? As legislators seek more rigorous regulation of dietary supplements, some health experts and nutritional devotees are pushing back.
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.
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