| All natural diet supplements. They sound healthy | | | | labels of all natural diet supplements? Oh and by |
| and natural don't they? But not all natural diet | | | | the way, of course there are companies making |
| supplements are what they appear, and not all | | | | products known to kill people for profit. Cigarette |
| are quite as healthy as you would expect. | | | | companies do exactly that. |
| You see there are some problems in the dietary | | | | Not only this, but it is also known that some of |
| supplements industry. Nutritional supplements, | | | | the so called herbal vitamins and minerals can |
| herbal supplements, vitamin or mineral | | | | contain toxic ingredients. |
| supplements or whatever you want to call them | | | | Again I hear you ask, "surely companies wouldn't |
| have 2 distinct problems that you, as the | | | | use ingredients that are known to be toxic or |
| consumer, ought to know about. | | | | dangerous to people would they"? Did you know |
| The first is that there is no regulatory framework | | | | that many of your mainstream big brand name |
| governing what goes into natural diet supplements. | | | | cosmetics contain toxic ingredients? A recent |
| Dietary supplements are not regulated by the | | | | study showed lead in around 50% of big brand |
| FDA. The FDA doesn't test them either to verify | | | | name lipsticks. |
| that the ingredients listed on the label are actually | | | | Get my point? There are unscrupulous companies |
| there, and they also don't verify that the | | | | that will do whatever they can to make a profit, |
| quantities of the different herbs, vitamins and | | | | and if that means that they fudge their claims, or |
| minerals and other ingredients actually exist in the | | | | use suspect ingredients, some will do it. |
| quantities that are claimed on the label. | | | | Now don't get me wrong. There are some |
| So although you may be reading that there is a | | | | excellent all natural diet supplements and minerals |
| certain amount of a certain herb, or mineral, say, | | | | and other types of diet supplements available. |
| you can't actually be sure that it's really there in | | | | Nutritional supplements put together by reputable |
| the claimed quantity. | | | | scientists made by companies with a |
| I can almost hear you ask, "surely they wouldn't | | | | demonstrated commitment to both product |
| put things on the label that aren't there, or if | | | | quality, customer satisfaction and customer |
| there is less than what they claim"? Does the | | | | safety. |
| world go round? | | | | But the trick is finding out which are the diet |
| If there are companies that make products that | | | | supplements to avoid, and which are those that |
| are known to kill people for profit, would there be | | | | are high quality. It's not easy. |
| companies that would fudge their claims on the | | | | |