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Nutritional Supplements
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Vitamins, minerals and other food substances are used to enhance health. Supplements help to maintain adequate nutrient levels and produce therapeutic effects.

Why Take Nutritional Supplements?
This article addresses the changing food supply, and how the present quality of food necessitates our need of supplements.

Supplements Index
This index of supplements has links to detailed supplement information. From The Holistic Channel.

Supplement HMB for Building Muscle
The supplement HMB and clinical study that suggests it may help build muscle in untrained people during resistance training.

Supplements Guide
Description, selecting the right form, drug-nutrient interactions, precautions, and dosage for each health condition, from WholeHealthMD.com.

Consumer Lab
Consumer Lab provides independent testing of common supplements and vitamins for quality. Explains some differences in supplements, such as the forms of calcium.

Consumer Reviews of Nutritional Supplements
This website allows consumers to post their ratings and reviews on various nutritional supplements.

Vitamin and Mineral Supplements -- MEDLINE Plus
Latest news, research, and consumer information on vitamin and mineral supplements from the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Vitamins & Carotenoids: Signs of Deficiency and Overdose
Detailed information about the vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and K, with signs and effects of deficiency and overdose.

Search for Published Information on Dietary Supplements
The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals.

Dietary Supplements: Consumer Information
From the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements, a list of Internet links to consumer information on dietary supplements.

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