FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

A well-balanced diet is essential for a healthy body, along with a healthy lifestyle including regular exercise. However, despite the knowledge that proper nutrition can help us maintain good health, few of us find it easy put this theory into practice on a daily basis.

Food supplements are not a substitute for a well-balanced diet. Rather, they are designed to support the daily diet, helping to ensure that the levels of intake of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients are maintained at an optimum level, particularly on the days where temptation rules and our diet might be less balanced. Supplements may be used to correct nutritional deficiencies or maintain an adequate intake of certain nutrients.

Food supplements are concentrated sources of nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect. Food supplements are marketed as pills, tablets, capsules or liquids in measured doses etc.

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