Dietary Supplements: Overview
The Federal Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act defines a dietary supplement as a "product (other than tobacco) intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains one or more of the following dietary ingredients: a vitamin, mineral, amino acid, herb or other botanical . . . intended for ingestion in the form of a capsule, powder, softgel, or gelcap, and not represented as a conventional food or as a sole item of a meal or the diet."
Today, many companies produce vitamin and herbal supplements purported to cure ailments from cancer to erectile dysfunction. Click below to learn more about these products and some of their more serious adverse side effects.
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