Interesting Note from the NIH ion todays update:


2004 MEDICINE FOR THE PUBLIC LECTURES COVER LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN MEDICINE


October 5, 2004
DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: WHAT DO YOU KNOW? WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW?
Paul M. Coates, Ph.D., Director, Office of Dietary Supplements, National
Institutes of Health
Dietary supplements are widely used by the public with more than 100 million

Americans taking them. Current knowledge about these supplements is
incomplete.
More needs to be done to determine what they can do and to dispel common
misconceptions. Dietary supplements offer fertile ground for answering such
questions as how to assess the health effects of supplements and whether
extracts of biologically-active substances marketed as supplements like
isoflavones and antioxidants work the same way they do in food. NIH
researchers
are studying the many and varied aspects of dietary supplements. Through
examples of dietary supplements such as substances derived from plants,
nutrient
ingredients like vitamins, or food components like omega-3 fatty acids
derived
from fish, learn what a dietary supplement is, how it is different from a
food
or a drug, and who takes them and why. The regulation and evaluation of diet

supplements will be presented. Hear what is really known about these
supplements
and equally important, what is not known about them.

Too bad it is not relevant to artificial infant milk.

Ellen Penchuk, ICLC, RLC

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