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The Dangers of Taking Supplements Americans spend billions of dollars every year on vitamin and dietary supplements. Over 60 percent of Americans buy and take supplements for all sorts of reasons such as preventing illnesses, depression, weight loss, and even curing cancer (Hurley). They have also been used as an alternative to receive the nutrients that some people are unable to get. However, controversies over the harmful uses of supplements have surfaced. Some say that major risks can…

Dietary supplements are sold in stores all over the United States without a doctor’s prescription. Half of the adult American population takes supplements every single day of their lives. The supplements include, but are not limited to, “vitamins, energy boosters, herbal preparations, and weight-loss aids…” (Weeks). People have always been told how beneficial it is to take these wonderful dietary supplements to help give their body the nutrients it needs, but they don’t know that these…

billion dollars on supplements and vitamins designed to improve overall health and body function. While some products claim to have “miracle powers”, others are proven to be most effective. When it comes to athletic performance, most athletes look to supplements to aid in strength and muscle gains. Though some take non-effective, sometimes illegal supplements like HGH and steroids, others look to the more common legal supplements like creatine. Creatine is a widely-researched supplement on the…

balanced diet or dietary supplements. When the essential nutrients are not present in a diet, dietary supplements may be turned to for a ‘quick and easy’ shortcut, however it’ll hurt somebody’s health if too many are obtained. Dietary supplement companies are not informing their customers of what is truly in their products, causing contamination and megadoses, however multivitamins are a part of dietary supplements that are hard to look past, therefore being against dietary supplements is more…

5 tips to buy the best food supplements: Food is not the part that makes up the complete diet. Food contains proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, that helps you build up and gain strength. It isn’t all for what a healthy body needs. For a healthy and disease free body, one is supposed to have a proper diet plan to get through all of this. Supplements are taken to add extra elements to the body like vitamins, amino acids etc which are not considered as food, but are taken orally if deficiency of…

an adequate dietary intake of essential nutrients and vitamins. Safety is a major risk when it comes to buying dietary supplements. Although dietary supplements include percent of daily value, it does not confirm accuracy. Many people are uninformed of the side effects of high doses of dietary supplements and don’t realize that they can interfere with other medications and blood tests (Silva, Ludwick, 2002). Another risk is when it comes to advertising there are no set standards. Legally…

While looking though the Men and Women Health magazines, there were two of the same ads that were both selling Vitafusion™ vitamins. The Women’s Health magazine showed an image of a woman doing yoga at an exotic setting with a blown up image of a Vitafusion™ bottle right beside her and the Men’s Health magazine showed an image of a man biking on a dangerous mountain with an image of a small Vitafusion™ bottle shown in front of him. After looking at both advertisements, it is clear that when…

The supplement that interested me the most and that I evaluated was Royal Jelly. I had no idea that there was even such a dietary supplement, let alone all of the claimed cures it was supposed to heal, such as lowering blood pressure, lowering bad cholesterol, and decreasing breast cancer risk. It has also been proven by “The Health Professional’s Guide to Popular Dietary Supplements” to improve stamina, reduce fatigue, and boost mental health as well. As mentioned by a fellow classmate, I…

There was a stage in my life, maybe between grades 11 and 12, where I drank Med-lemon every single morning for a good year. Not because I was sick or feeling a sickness coming on, but because I did not want to get sick. My mentality was that prevention is better than cure; and my parents who love me so much and just want me to be happy would go out of their way after work and buy me a box of Med-Lemon from Clicks which would cost roughly around R70. I didn’t really even begin to consider the…

Dietary Supplements have become a major part of the United States way of living. In 2007 nearly eighteen percent of all Americans claimed to use”nonvitamin, nonmineral, natural products”. This may be due to more endorsement and and prescriptions from health officials. This may be because Dietary Supplements are often regarded as “natural” substitutes for drugs. Dietary Supplements are sold in many different forms such as pills, capsules, liquids, extracts, teas,and powders. Many companies sell…