A new government study found that more than half of American adults take at least one dietary supplement. But despite their popularity, many experts remain skeptical of their effects. “Although we were not surprised, it is interesting to note that not only did supplemental calcium use and vitamin D use increase for all women aged 60 and over from 1988 to 1994 to 1999 to 2002, but there was also an increase from [between] 1999 [and] 2002 to 2003 to 2006,” said Jaime Gahche, a nutritional researcher with the National Center for Health Statistics and lead author of the study. Supplements can contain high amounts of specific nutrients, and are often used to increase nutrition in a person’s diet.
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Vitamins & Supplements: Are They Really Bad for Us?
“It is my hope that by educating men, deaths from sexual enhancement products can be prevented in the United States,” Cohen said. He urges men with sexual dysfunction to avoid sexual health supplements altogether. If you really want to try something natural, Cohen suggests asking your doctor about yohimbine , a prescription medication for erectile dysfunction that’s derived from yohimbe, a compound naturally found in the bark of a West African evergreen tree. It’s important, however, that you take the prescription version and not the supplement yohimbe, which has been shown to contain varying amounts of the active ingredient. While it’s true that men may seek out natural remedies for sexual dysfunction because they believe they are safer and gentler than their conventional counterparts, it’s my experience that some men may be using these supplements as way to avoid discussing sexual issues with their physicians or because they are too embarrassed to fill the prescription at their local pharmacy. To address such concerns, Pfizer has started selling Viagra online.
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The great health supplements con: How firms like Seven Seas and Vitabiotics exaggerate benefits of pills used by millions says Which?
These were Boots Digestion Support Plus, Bioglan Glucosamine Plus Chondroitin and MSM, Seven Seas Jointcare Active, Boots Joint Health Glucosamine Sulphate & Chrondroitin, Vitabiotics Jointace Original and Optima ActivJuice for Joints. Which? said some of these had used larger font sizes on certain ingredients, such as glucosamine, to imply a health benefit when this was not supported by evidence. All took advantage of additional ingredients, such as vitamin C or calcium, which do have real and proven health benefits, to imply all of the ingredients were also proven to be effective.
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Warning: Men’s natural sex supplements may not be
However, approximately 30,000 men still die every year secondary to the disease. To that end, dedicated research has sought to examine possible ways to prevent this cancer. Over the past few decades, there has been a prevailing belief that vitamin supplementation will improve our health by increasing vitality, decreasing cancer risk and helping to fend off other common health problems. In the U.S. alone, vitamins and minerals represent a multibillion dollar industry. Marketing has supported these ideas, however research has been sparse. A recent study sought to further explore the relationship between the effects of vitamin E and selenium on prostate cancer.
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