The health supplement industry is a 30 billion dollar a year industry. Companies, stores and websites are popping up daily to health supplements to make you more muscular, leaner, faster, more flexibility and painfree and it is just going to continue. While most people think that this would signal a change in our countries health, it actually is leading to worth health issues than ever. How else can you explain over 112,000 deaths due to obesity in 2007 alone? If the health supplements are so good and effective then why does this current generation have children that are fatter than their parents?
It’s all because the health supplement industry has some serious issues itself. The first being tat no supplement, not multivitamins, not vitamin c and not even fish oil need the Food and Drug Administrations approval before they can be sold. That means that anyone with a chemistry degree and access to the raw materials, which are very easy to get, can start producing health supplements in a matter of hours. So that basically means that anything can be put into your supplements.
How so? Well since the FDA doesn’t regulate health supplements no one is watching over shady business and big companies that are just out to make money. It’s actually up to the FDA to prove that the ingredients in the supplements aren’t healthy. That is a timely and costly processes. The healthy supplement industry can literally put anything it wants into your health supplements.
Another big issue is that the supplements can hide under what is known as a “Proprietary Blend” which means that they can put minimal and ineffective amounts of whatever they want in the supplement. So lets say that supplement “X” is the main reason that you are buying the product because you’ve heard about its great benefits. Well health supplement companies can put a very small and ineffective amount of “X” in the product and you just waste your money.
The big companies don’t want you to know that the health supplement industry is taking your money. You’re better off with sticking with good nutrition and training than anything else.
Discover the the shocking truth about health supplements. Jimmy Smith, MS, CSCS is a Men’s Fitness muscle building expert.
