Dietary Supplements: Navigating a Minefield

摘要: Use of dietary supplements has increased rapidly in recent years and around half people North America regularly use supplements. A wide variety are sold. In some cases there is strong evidence supporting their efficacy but many other little or no evidence. Supplements marketed by a different methods, including health food stores, multilevel marketing, bulk mail, spam e-mails, Internet websites, infomercials on TV. A large part marketing practices involves giving unreliable dishonest information that not supported scientific studies. There very regulation the United States. However, Canada now process enforcing reasonably strict regulations. Suggestions given counseling patients so they can better evaluate claims made sellers supplements.