A Warning About Health Supplements

The health supplement industry is a 30 billion dollarsupplements.
a year industry. Companies, stores and websitesHow so? Well since the FDA doesn't regulate
are popping up daily to health supplements tohealth supplements no one is watching over shady
make you more muscular, leaner, faster, morebusiness and big companies that are just out to
flexibility and painfree and it is just going tomake money. It's actually up to the FDA to prove
continue. While most people think that this wouldthat the ingredients in the supplements aren't
signal a change in our countries health, it actually ishealthy. That is a timely and costly processes.
leading to worth health issues than ever. How elseThe healthy supplement industry can literally put
can you explain over 112,000 deaths due toanything it wants into your health supplements.
obesity in 2007 alone? If the health supplementsAnother big issue is that the supplements can hide
are so good and effective then why does thisunder what is known as a "Proprietary Blend"
current generation have children that are fatterwhich means that they can put minimal and
than their parents?ineffective amounts of whatever they want in
It's all because the health supplement industry hasthe supplement. So lets say that supplement "X"
some serious issues itself. The first being tat nois the main reason that you are buying the
supplement, not multivitamins, not vitamin c andproduct because you've heard about its great
not even fish oil need the Food and Drugbenefits. Well health supplement companies can
Administrations approval before they can be sold.put a very small and ineffective amount of "X" in
That means that anyone with a chemistry degreethe product and you just waste your money.
and access to the raw materials, which are veryThe big companies don't want you to know that
easy to get, can start producing healththe health supplement industry is taking your
supplements in a matter of hours. So thatmoney. You're better off with sticking with good
basically means that anything can be put into yournutrition and training than anything else.