Diet Supplements And Recent Controversy By Dick Benson

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In the article, “Diet Supplements and Recent Controversy” by Dick Benson, it talks about the controversy over the bad and good of dietary supplements Dietary supplements can be dangerous if people don’t pay enough attention to the products. Consumers should always careful and do research on the products before they consider to buy them. Practitioners advise that people should take dietary supplements if they need fulfill their nutritional. They work with a lot of compete people like researchers, practitioners, supplement manufacturers, and ingredient manufacturers to research on dietary supplements. They are all believed that dietary supplements can a healthy lifestyle for someone if individual carefully research for the supplement before he

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