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What are Food Supplements?

As their name implies, dietary or nutritional supplements include any consumed products that aim to supplement the diet and provide additional nutrients that may be missing from it, or aren’t being
consumed in sufficient quantities. Food supplements include such ingredients as vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, and enzymes. Food supplements are marketed in forms such as tablets, capsules, softgels, gelcaps, powders, and liquids.

Food supplements are covered


Food supplements are covered by the Food Safety Act and should not be harmful to health. Other supplements are classified and regulated as medicines because of their reported effects and methods of use. This means that different products that contain the same main ‘active’ ingredient may actually have different classifications, with some classed as foods and others as medicines.
Food supplements are concentrated sources of one or several nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect, alone or in combination.
Nutrients include vitamins and minerals. Other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect are considered to include, for example, fatty acids, amino acids
and fibres as well as various plants, chemical substances or lactic acid bacteria.

Dietary supplements or nutritional supplements


Food supplements, also known as dietary supplements or nutritional supplements, are products that are intended to supplement the diet and provide nutrients that may be missing or insufficient in a person's regular diet. They are usually available in various forms, such as tablets, capsules, powders, or liquids, and contain one or more dietary ingredients, such as vitamins, minerals, herbs, or other botanicals, amino acids, or enzymes.

Regulated by various governmental


Food supplements are regulated by various governmental agencies around the world, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States, and are intended to be used as a supplement to a person's diet. They are not intended to be used as a replacement for a healthy diet or medical treatment. Some common examples of food supplements include multivitamins, omega-3 fatty acid supplements, and probiotics.

Important to note that food supplements


It's important to note that food supplements should only be taken under the guidance of a healthcare provider, especially for individuals with specific medical conditions or who are taking prescription medications. If you are considering taking a food supplement, it's best to speak with your healthcare provider to determine if it is right for you and to ensure that you are taking it safely and effectively.

2 comments

  1. Would love to see a comprehensive breakdown of food supplements vs health and fitness goals. Lots of people who are new to gym culture are exercising or lifting to get shredded. The goal is usually weight loss. All the emotional baggage is tied in. However it's interesting that lifting exercise cardio diet weight loss nutrition health fitness and medicine are often talked about on tandem but there's always lots of over specialization. Lots of people who are body building eat 6 maybe upwards of 10 times a day. People looking to lose weight may look at the physique of some influencer and try the same only to find they are just gaining weight.
  2. Health care is better in Canada then in the USA because Canada has government health care, with private health care like in the USA , lots of money is wasted on advertising, when that money could be better spent to give someone health care that desperately needs it. If you live in the USA and you are trying to choose the best health care the choice is easy, move to Canada. USA health care terrible. We have employer group health insurance.