Supplements

How Do Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Affect Your Body?

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Never think that supplements can take the place of the minerals and vitamins that are obtained from the normal daily servings of fruit, vegetables, meat and fish.

They are not substitutes, if they were they would be called so, and not be known as supplements.

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The Dangers of Nutritional Supplements

From time to time a scare story that lays the blame for a serious reaction, sometimes leading to death, from taking a nutritional supplement hits the headlines.

Apart from excessive overdosing, which with any foodstuff or drink, however harmless, can cause problems that can be fatal, there seems no hard evidence to suggest that pharmaceutical grade supplements approved by the USFDA can be dangerous.

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