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. View sub-topics at right to learn about these products and some of their more serious adverse side effects.

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