Essays on Dietary Supplements

The term vitamin was coined in 1911 by Casimir Funk, a biochemist. Vitamins are organic molecules which are essential dietary nutrients. They are non-energy yielding and non-body building agents but are required for proper functioning of bodily functions and regulation of metabolism. Vitamins have various…

USFDA defines dietary supplements in part as product taken by mouth that contain a “dietary ingredients”. Dietary ingredients comprise vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs or botanicals, in addition to other substances that can be considered to supplement the diet. Market is flooded with various…

If, at breakfast, you display a whole arsenal of pills, powders or liquids that no doctor has prescribed for you, convinced that you need them to survive, take a moment to think about why you do it. It is more than likely that you have…

Supplements: For Better or Worse Human body is the most complex biochemical factory anyone can image, and there is no doubt that this “biochemical factory” requires hundreds of chemicals supplied from food to function. Every molecule in the body originated from the nutrients we eat….

Main Parties in the Case The key players in the case are the FDA, NHA and the secretary general of the human services’ health sector (Gilbert, 2007). The plaintiff, in this case, is the Nutrition Health Alliance appealing from the ruling made by the US…

Fish Oil: What It Is and Why You Need It There was a time in the not too distant past when the mention of any type of fat was an anathema to anyone interested in health and fitness. Boy, how times have changed. Nowadays, we…