Dietary Supplements - What are They?
by Dr. Gary Farr 2/22/2002
If you take a vitamin pill each day, you are taking a dietary supplement. That is, you are adding something to your diet of foods, most likely in an attempt to make up for a less than perfect diet, to promote good health, or to help speed healing when
illness strikes. Dietary supplements are also prescribed for vitamin or mineral deficiencies such as iron for anemia or vitamin supplements for pregnant women and small children.
What are Vitamins?
by Dr. Gary Farr 10/14/2006
Essential to life, these thirteen organic compounds perform dozens of vital jobs in the body. Vitamin entered our vocabulary only in 1912, when the first one thiamin or B1 was isolated. We now know that some of the devastating diseases of the past beriberi, rickets, scurvy were nothing more than acute vitamin deficiencies. Read more . . .
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