Nutritional Supplementation

Nutritional Supplementation

Pick five supplements currently on the market. Find research based on the supplements and the ingredients. What were the results? Were the studies funded by the supplement company? Is this a supplement backed by credible science? If not, why do you think that so many people are currently using it?

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Nutritional supplements continue to increase in the United States as consumers look for more condition-specific supplements that provide specific health benefits. However, the use of dietary supplements has the potential of benefiting or harming the health of an individual mainly the adults aged sixty or more years thus the need to monitor the patterns of their use. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) conducted a research study on dietary supplement and its use for the period between 2011 and 2014. The study found that about seventy percent of the older US adults reported using more than one dietary supplement with women taking a higher proportion than the males (Gahche, Bailey, Potischman, & Dwyer, 2017). Some of the most commonly reported dietary supplements include the multivitamin or mineral supplements that formed about thirty-nine percent, vitamin D……..

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