throughout North America, and Canada is no exception, you consume huge amounts' of vitamins and nutritional supplements. But many foods are fortified with vitamins, amino acids and trace elements or even fiber to replace almost deficiencies in reality 'in the population can not occur at all so well' generalized. The consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables would only be sufficient in many cases additional daily needs but that 'despite the supermarket shelves are flooded with large and small cans of any kind of nutritional supplement: pills to reduce cholesterol-based omega 3, linseed oil, vitamin C in all forms, each combination of calcium and vitamin D to fight osteoporosis , Real cans of protein and amino acids to support muscle mass and facilitate weight loss.
In all cases, these "claims" are announced with great characters on the packaging, but are not supported by any authority 'health status. If on one side and 'useful and convenient to have on the shelves counter drugs like aspirin, antacids, allergy or accompanied dall'avvertenza contact the pharmacist and that' in the supermarket for more information, do a bit 'worry about long hallways like to see in this picture without any assistance. There are, however, 'some serious problems: the St. John's wort (Hypericum) that is used by many people for its 'anti-depressant but has' serious interactions with many medications prescribed by your doctor. Protein preparations or create a load on the kidneys that can 'be harmful.
In Canada these products are sold freely and there are many shops "specialized" (known as the GNC), which even advertises its internet homepage with a picture of a hockey player, sports national in Canada.
In Italy access to these products 'generally more' controlled by herbalists and pharmacists but are beginning to appear in stores gyms and health clubs that recommend various supplements to lose weight and accelerate the increase in muscle mass. Hard to say whether the trend will spread American 'in Italy.
For now you can 'say that this monitoring function by the FDA (the authorities' U.S. drug and food) and HealthCanada and' very close. A few weeks ago a number of products used by bodybuilders and 'was withdrawn after the discovery that they contained anabolic steroids or similar and the onset of serious liver failure and heart attacks in people who had used it. For more details see this alert published by HealthCanada.
The alert and 'always important for good health. It would be good even in Italy this kind of news they had adequate attention from our Ministry of health.
PS: I apologize to my readers for this long post 25 "technical", but after you started writing, the argument took my hand.