Dietary Supplements of Plant Origin

Description

Dietary supplements are estimated to be used regularly by almost 60% of the American population, and over 300 million people worldwide. An important and ever-growing portion of this market is in botanical supplements that are derived from natural plants. Natural, however, does not necessarily mean safe, and although plants can provide health-essential and health-improving nutrients they can also provide toxic compounds. While the use and sales of botanical supplements continues to expand rapidly, scientific understanding of the efficacy and safety of these products remains limited.The aim of Dietary Supplements of Plant Origin is to give both the general and specialized reader a comprehensive insight into the most recent findings in this interesting area of dietary supplementation. It is hoped that this book will shed a new light on this topic and impact positively upon the health of people in this new millennium.

First Sentence

Dietary supplements are in widespread use in the United States (Eisenberg et al., 1993, 1998; Kessler et al., 2001).

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Other Editions

• Dietary Supplements of Plant Origin: A Nutrition and Health ApproachCRC2003-05-22
• Dietary supplements of plant originTaylor & Francis2003-01-01
• Dietary Supplements of Plant OriginElectronic resourceTaylor & Francis Group Plc2004-01-01