Let them eat cake! Dietary supplement users vs non-users…
nodiets wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
This particular blog post is titled, “Let them eat cake!” for reasons which I am still not quite sure. However, the topic of this most recent blog post is a comparison of people who use dietary supplements to those who do not. I recently read an article in the Nutrition Journal which compared usage patterns, health, and nutritional status of long-term multiple dietary supplement users in the form of a cross-sectional study. A cross-sectional study compares a sample population to a control population at one point in time.
This particular study was comprised of individuals who took dietary supplements for a 20 year period on a daily basis. Supplements taken by on a daily basis by more than 50% of this group included a multivitamin/mineral, B-complex, vitamin C, carotenoids, vitamin E, Calcium with Vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, flavanoids, lecithin, alfalfa, coenzyme Q10 with reservatrol, glucosamine, and a herbal immune supplement.
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