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	<description>Fitness &#38; dietary advice</description>
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		<title>Spotting False Claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sheer volume of available dietary supplements makes it difﬁcult for the FDA to monitor all of these products. It is important to recognize these limitations and become an informed consumer. Products making unrealistic statements, claiming to be all-natural and therefore harmless, or claiming to contain “ancient” or “secret” ingredients should be viewed with extreme [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/spotting-false-claims/</link>
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		<title>Contacting Dietary Supplement Manufacturers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contacting individual manufacturers can be the most efﬁcient way to ﬁnd speciﬁc information. The following is a list of important questions that can be asked of dietary supplement manufacturers.
• How can you prove the effectiveness and safety of your product?
• Can you share information with me about the tests you use to determine safety and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/contacting-dietary-supplement-manufacturers/</link>
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		<title>Who Are the Experts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumers get information about dietary supplements from many sources, including friends, family members, and healthcare professionals. This information is often a mixture of scientiﬁc data, hearsay, and anecdote. Given the complexity of dietary supplements, however, only people with in-depth knowledge of science, medicine, and nutrition should be considered experts.
Registered dietitians, pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and physician [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/who-are-the-experts/</link>
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		<title>Researching Dietary Supplements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite their natural connotation, dietary supplements are biologically active substances. Evidence for their safety and efﬁcacy should therefore be based on accepted principles of science.
What Is Good Science?
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranked scientiﬁc studies by the value of their results. Below they are ranked from most powerful to least powerful:
• prospective, randomized, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/researching-dietary-supplements/</link>
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		<title>Evidence of Dietary Supplement Efﬁcacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Natural Standard is composed of a panel of experts, including medical doctors, pharmacists, and those working in the ﬁelds of medicine, nutrition, complementary and alternative therapies, and dietary supplements. The Natural Standard (http://www.naturalstandard.com) provides a clearinghouse of the vast research performed on various vitamin, mineral, herbal, botanical, and other dietary supplements. The group classiﬁes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/evidence-of-dietary-supplement-ef%ef%ac%81cacy/</link>
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		<title>Other Dietary Supplements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vitamins and minerals share the quality of being highly studied and classiﬁed dietary components, and herbal and botanical dietary supplements are all used as natural medicines. Other dietary supplements are alike in that they elude such organization. Essentially categorized by default, some of the dietary supplements in this group are components of plants (such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/other-dietary-supplements/</link>
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		<title>Herbal and Botanical Dietary Supplements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Herbal and botanical dietary supplements have been used as medicines for thousands of years. For example, black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa), which is now commonly used to relieve symptoms associated with menopause, was used by Native Americans for a variety of ailments. They boiled black cohosh root in water and drank the resulting beverage for health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/herbal-and-botanical-dietary-supplements/</link>
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		<title>Vitamin and Mineral Dietary Supplements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Minerals necessary for a health diet are boron, calcium, chromium, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, and zinc. To prevent illness and death from vitamin and mineral deﬁciencies, the U.S. government established the recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) in 1943. These values are updated routinely based on new scientiﬁc information.
Recently, dietary reference intakes (DRIs) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/vitamin-and-mineral-dietary-supplements/</link>
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		<title>Deconstructing Dietary Supplements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes understanding and regulating dietary supplements so complex is that many different substances are lumped together in one group. Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg, senior scientist and director of the Antioxidants Laboratory at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, contends that including all of these different substances under one heading is “worse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/deconstructing-dietary-supplements/</link>
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		<title>Dietary Supplement Veriﬁcation Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three organizations analyze dietary supplements to ensure safety, the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP), ConsumerLab.com, and the Natural Products Association (NPA).
The USP is an independent, nonproﬁt organization that establishes standards for all prescription and over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements, and other healthcare products manufactured in the United States, such as medical devices. Founded in 1820, the USP is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopweightproblem.com/dietary-supplement-veri%ef%ac%81cation-programs/</link>
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