Originally posted by diamondsmith
Doctors prescribe different medicines for our various diseases, whether chronic or not,we take different medicines without the need such as food
supplements.
Food supplements are not medicines or drugs. There is a push, by the pharmacudical companies and the FDA, to regulate them though. I don't see a
problem with a body overseeing the quality of food supplements, but to put them a drug abuse catagory is dangerous, in my opinion.
I take many food supplements everyday. I take vitamin C, B, royal jelly and grapefruit seed extract. I take glucosamine condroitin and hyaluronic
acid. I don't see this a drug abuse at all! I hope that their use prolongs my life and makes living a little easier.
My father had a heart attack and a quaduple bypass. If it weren't for the drugs that he was prescribed he wouldn't have lived for the next 17
years.
My mother, on the other hand, choked to death on her medication.