Vitamens are so linked with health that it becomes kind of handy shorthand for all diet supplements. The nutritional health alliance did things, for example, like pre writing letters that people could just sign and send to congress. They created a television commercial in which mel gibson is in his kitchen taking something out of a bottle,. And all of a sudden police raid his kitchen, and he puts up his hands and saysgogosonly bie.
Millions of Americans take dietary supplements — everything from vitamins and minerals to weight loss pills and probiotics. But because supplements are loosely regulated in the US, their makers don't have to prove that they work, or even that they are safe.
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