Health and Fitness -- Food Supplements

Key Words:
Food Supplements, Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids, Glyconutrients

On this page:
What is a Food Supplement, Types of Food Supplements

A food supplement is, typically, a nutrient added to a foodstuff which would otherwise not contain that nutrient. In general, the term is restricted to those additives which are deemed to be positive for health, growth or well-being.

Introduction

Several ranges of food supplements are recognised:

additives which repair a deficit to "normal" levels
additives which appear to enhance a food
supplements taken in addition to the normal diet

Many physicians today disagree with the premise that foodstuffs need supplementation, but accept that - for example - added calcium may provide benefit, or that adding folic acid may correct a nutritional deficiency especially in pregnant women.

On a more controversial level, but well founded in scientific basis, is the science of using foods and food supplements to achieve a defined health goal. A common example of this use of food supplements is the extent to which body builders will use amino acid mixtures, vitamins and phytochemicals to enhance natural hormone production, increase muscle and reduce fat.

Moving on from this reasonably accepted usage, there is increasing evidence for the use of food supplements in established medical conditions. This nutritional supplementation using foods as medicine (nutraceuticals) has been effectively used in treating disorders affecting the immune system up to and including cancers. This goes beyond the definition of "food supplement", but should be included for the sake of completeness.

Food supplements

There are several main groups of food supplements which can be considered:

Sites:

AbsolutelyHealthy.com - Offering the Japanese Pristine brand antioxidants, weight management, fatty acids, immune system items, and general health specialties.
Abundant Nutrition - Offers a basic nutrient foundation program plus health concern specialty products.
Achilles Health Mart - Offers multi-vitamin and mineral, cleansing, fiber, enzyme, superfoods, and EFA.
Active Health Dietary Supplements - Offers vitamins, minerals, and herbs, specializing in prostrate, sexual, heart and joint health, weight loss, and anti-aging.
Advanced Health & Life Extension - Products focusing on health improvement, life extension, disease prevention, and weight loss. Full line of vitamins, minerals and other natural therapies.
Advanced Wellness Solution - Amino acid and algae based supplements for joint health, weight loss, and general nutrition.
Affordable Nature's Life - Offering vitamins, minerals, herbs, superfoods, amino acids, EFA, antioxidants, digestive aids, and other specialties.
Alberon.com - Natural marine supplements claimed to help with many health problems.
All One Nutritech - Powdered vitamin and mineral products in a variety of bases such as rice or green cereal grasses.
All Your Health Needs - Sales of Metagenics and Unipro herbal blends, extracts, botanical formulas, vitamins, and minerals.
Ameri+Med - Offers vitamins and minerals, herbals, weight loss, general health specialties, and skin/massage oils.
Ann Louise Gittleman - Author of The Fat Flush Plan, is a certified clinical nutritionist specializing in weight loss, cleansing diets and natural hormone replacement therapy.
Applied Health Solutions - Features vitamins, minerals, EFA, joint support, cleansing products, and superfoods.
Aquagen - Natural dietary and sports nutrition supplements including stabilized oxygen that works with vitamins and minerals to enhance the immune system and increase energy.
Basic Vitamins - Offers Basic brand vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, digestive aids, joint support, superfoods, and other specialties.
Bayho - Sells joint support, essential fatty acids, prostate formulas, herbals, and other specialties.
BDI Marketing - Manufacturer and distributor of herbal and sexual supplements, caffeine stimulants and bronchodilators.
Beefcake Nutrition - Sales of vitamins and sports supplements such as Myoplex and Met-rx.
BeWellCentral - Offers vitamins, minerals, energy, weight loss, DHEA, MSM, cleansing, detox, and other specialty products.
Beyond A Century - Provides performance and nutritional supplements, literature, and detailed descriptions.
BioLogics - Offering vitamins, antioxidants, Sam-e, and herbals focusing on aiding the mental processes.
BioResponse Nutrients, LLC - Supplements containing Di-indolylmethane, a natural hormone balancing substance found in cruciferous vegetables.
BioTreasures, Inc. - Site features Herbal Treasures, a multivitamin and herbal complex designed to boost health and vitality.
Biotrex - Offers anti-aging, sports recovers, joint repair, and herbal remedies.
Body Language Vitamin Company - Offers a multi-vitamin and a variety of health concerns proprietary formulas.
Botanic Choice - Vitamins, minerals, and special herbal formulas for specific ailments.
Brentwood Health International - Sells emu oil, liquid nutritionals, liquid glucosamine, meal replacement, and soy products.
Brinkley's Best - Features herbals, oils, vitamins, minerals, homeopathy, superfoods, and other specialties.
Buy Just Natural - Offering natural vitamin supplements, herbal nutrition and weight loss formulas.
California Health - Offers vitamins, minerals, melatonin, and specialties.
Cambridge Nutraceutical - Offers products categorized by health concern for medical professionals and patients.
Cancer Cure Secrets - Information about commercial dietary supplements.
Chemistnet - Herbal supplements, vitamins and minerals, and phytonutrients.
CLA Supplement Center - Sells Tonalin conjugated linoleic acid, plus weight loss, heart health, herbal stress relief, and other specialties.
Complete Nutritional Program, Inc. - Offers vitamins, minerals, herbs, formulation for cancer prevention, aging, diet and weight loss, sexual health, heart health, and immune health. Also an alternative for hormone therapy.
Confidence Inc - Natural nutriceutical products with Chinese herbs for sexual performance, losing weight, hair loss, menopause and healthy heart.
DAAN - Offers general health vitamins, minerals, herbs, men's, women's, and specialties listed by health concern.
Dandelion Internationl - imports/exports traditional chinese medicine and health supplements including america wisconsin ginseng, notoginseng, yunan tanqi, other chinese herbs, provides various services for chinese medicine.
DHEA.com - DHEA.com specializes in McPherson Labs Fountain of Life Micron 5 DHEA, Melatonin, Pregnenolone, Joint Recovery, Joint Rebuilder, MSM Health Guard, XtraLift for Men, Xtralift Booster for Men.
Diet Supplements - USN have a wide range of weight loss and diet supplements available on their webslite along with protein bars and shakes.
The Discount Vitamin Store - A variety of supplements including vitamins, minerals, specialty formulas, and herbals. Also offers meal replacement bars and sleep aids.
Doctor's Nutrition - Offers vitamins, minerals, amino acid, joint support, DHEA, digestive enzymes, superfoods, immune support, essential oils, weight loss, herbal remedies and online consultation.
Dr. Lamars Products - Extracts from fruits and vegetables, liquid minerals, and blue green algae.
Dr. Ricketts Nutritionals - Sells products for digestive system, probiotics, hormonal balance, joint health, household, and pet care.
DreamPharm - Specializes in herbals, also vitamins, minerals, men's, women's, sports, and other specialties.
DrRons.com - CT Center for Alternative Medicine-naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, comprehensive treatment for cancer and other chronic diseases.
Earth's Pharmacy Nutritionals - Offers multi-nutrients, antioxidants, heart health, mental clarity, digestive enzymes, weight management, men's and women's specialties.
EcoNugenics, Inc. - Formulates and sells soy-based products, citrus pectin, minerals, herbals, and other products including integrative nutraceuticals intended to treat various conditions.
Energenetic Nutritional Technologies - Vitamins, minerals, herbs, and specialty formulas.
Enzyme Essentials - Digestive enzymes to help nutritional and gastric disorders like heartburn, indigestion, and obesity. Includes product recommendations for individual health problems.
Equilibra - Selection of nutritional supplements.
Essential Health Europe - Sell amino acids, antioxidants, immune boosters, memory enhancing products, weight loss, trace minerals and herbals. Prices in Euros.
Everhealth Vitamins - Offers proprietary line of general nutrition, beauty, herbs, and specialties.
eVitamins - Offers vitamins, minerals, and supplements for specific ailments.
FibroActive - Nutritional and herbal supplements treating fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, reduce stress, relieve bone and joint pain, and boost the immune system.
Fludan Fine Chemicals, Inc. - Guaifensin capsules, nutritional supplements, and specialty formulas.
General Vitamin Online - Sells vitamins, minerals, herbs, meal replacement, and other specialty formulations.
Gero Vita International - Offers nutritional supplements, longevity products, antioxidants, and alternative medicine resources.
GetSmart Vitamins - Offers vitamins, minerals and herbals formulated to solve specific health needs.
Go Natural America - Vitamins, herbs, and nutritional supplements. Includes industry news and current specials.
Gold Stake - Provides multi-mineral and multi-herbal products.
Good Earth Natural Foods - Specializing in vitamins, herbs, and natural beauty products. Purchase healthy products such as Nature's Plus, Burt's Bees, and African Formula.
Good for Health - Suppliers of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants as well as detoxification products and home testing kits.
Good-Vitamins.Com - Supplier of vitamins, minerals, herbs, DHEA, superfoods, amino acids, and beauty aids.
Graminex - Supplier of Cernitin flower pollen.
Great American Products - Specialized in weight loss, general health, meal replacement, joint support, and other specialties.
Green Planet Remedies - Retailers of DHEA and melatonin. Site features information and frequently asked questions. Based in France.
Green Turtle Bay Vitamin Co. - Offers probiotic based vitamins, minerals, and other health specialties.
Halal Vitamins - Offers Halal Vitamins brand which is custom formulated by a Muslim physician.� Halal certifications are available by request.
Half Price Nutrition - Focuses on women's health and fitness, offering weight loss, nutrition, sports, and herbal products.
Hanna's Herb Shop - Offers vitamins, minerals, herbs, and a wide range of health concern specialties.
HBC Protocols - Minerals and specialty formulas for a variety of health concerns including weight control, skin care, and hormone replacement.
Healing With Nutrition - Offers vitamins, minerals, herbs, antioxidants, digestive help, stress products, and physical support products.
Health Products Distributors, Inc. - A variety of supplements, with overview on each product.
Health Spotlight - Offering Tropical Oasis Liquid Joint Relief, to be used in place of anti-inflammatory drugs.
Healthy America Dietary Supplements - Sells vitamins, minerals, herbal remedies, oils, specialties, pet vitamins, weight loss, and amino acids.
Healthy Directions - Vitamins, minerals, and specialties from the Julian Whitaker, M.D. wellness institute. products listed by health concern.
Herbal Nurse - Offering a variety of herbal remedies for diseases such as diabetes, as well as weight loss and aphrodisiacs.
Hill Holly - Energising drink. Describes the product and its preparation and includes an order form.
iHealthtree - Offers a range of herbal nutritional supplements for men and women.
In Good Health Online - A homeopathic and holistic medical practitioner offers a line of vitamins and herbal formulations.
Innovative Therapeutics - Nutritional assessment programs that have been designed to determine the nutritional needs of the individual.
Intense Wellness - Nutritional supplements and weight loss products.
InVite Health - Offers multi-vitamin and minerals, specialty products, and cosmeceuticals developed by Samuel Benjamin, M.D. and Andrew Weil, M.D.
Kala Health - Offers heart support, joint support, herbal, general health, and pet products.
Kelation Plus - Offering an antioxidant designed to treat heart disease, arthritis, and high blood pressure.
Life Enhancement Products - Wide variety of nutritional supplements including blood sugar maintenance, thyroid support, weight control, sexual enhancement, gastrointestinal support, and life extension.
Life Link - Offers vitamins, minerals, herbals, hormones, fatty acids, joint support, and many specialties. Excellent product information.
Life Nutrients - Offer multi-vitamins and minerals, collodial minerals, and joint support products.
Life Style Blends - Offer products aiding immune system, joint support, weight loss, skin care, and anti-aging.
Life Zone, Inc - Offers multi-vitamin and mineral formulations plus skin care products.
LIFEnergy.com - Sells daily packets of multi-vitamin and minerals, superfood, antioxidants, and herbal specialties.
Liqua Fit - Fat Burners designed to help raise metabolism.
LK Naturals - Herbal supplements and soaps, as well as articles and links.
Lovely Health - Offers shark products, superfoods, probiotics, colostrum, and various health concern specialties.
Maximum International - Selling vitamins, minerals, supplements, hormone enhancers, and exercise equipment.
Max-Rx - Offers daily hormonal and weight loss supplements for men and women.
MD Logic - Sells fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and other specialties.
Med Five, Inc. - Vitamin and mineral based supplements packaged together as a complete health system.
Media Power Direct - Vitamin and mineral combination blends for general health and wellness, weight loss, and beauty. Also offers vitamin enhanced skin care products.
Medical Doctors Research Institute - Offers fitness, vitamins, weight control, immune system, heart health, joint support, and other specialties. Information and articles.
MicroMed Research Centers, Inc. - Antioxidant, enzyme, and probiotic supplements.
Minami Nutrition - Offers omega 3 oils, green tea, and a superfood product.
Minavite - Offers a multi-vitamin and mineral product, plus articles on various health conditions.
Mother Nature's Country Kitchen - Unique three-in-one garlic, vinegar and honey tablet.
myJaco Cellfood - Offers an oxygen mineral supplement, Cellfood, and Cellfood HGH.
NaturalWellbeing.com - Natural herbal treatments that help improve many of today's most personal ailments.
Nature Made - Offers nutritional information, health and wellness topics, personal health profiles, sells vitamins, minerals and herbal products.
Nature Made Wellness Advisor - Offers nutritional information, health and wellness topics, personal health profiles, vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements.
Natures Brands - Synthetic free vitamins, minerals, and whole food supplements. Also offers green foods, essential fatty acids, and weight loss products.
Natures Distributors - Antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, herbals, and related nutritional and dietary supplements.
Natures Peak - Offering multi vitamins and minerals in airtight daily formula packets.
Natures Youth - Offers anti-aging, weight loss, vitamins, and calcium supplements.
NEEDS, Inc. - Nutritional information and shopping site for the health conscious and environmentally sensitive person.
N-Ergetics - Sells colloidal silver, HGH, DHEA, amino acid, and flaxseed oil.
Noni Maui - Offers products derived from the Hawaiian Noni plant, plus multi-vitamins.
Northern Seas Products - Natural products for arthritis, skin problems, and other health concerns including shark cartilage, glucosamine, saw palmetto, and shark liver oil.
Nu Life Meds - Maca is used for male impotency, female irregularities, menopause, and as a high energy food supplement. Una de Gato has been reputed to have the extremely powerful immune system boosters.
Nubrain Store - Offer anti-aging, adult/sexual, amino acids, DHEA, energy, hormonal, men's and women's specialties, and minerals.
Nutrica Inc - Offers natural, herbal suppliments and creams from Asia for a variety of ailments.
NutriGuard Research - Providers of Vitamins, Minerals and Nutritional Supplements.
Nutri-Health - Offers probiotic formulas, general nutrition, beauty products, and health concern remedies.
NutriStart - Offers natural vitamins, minerals, herbs and trace minerals.
Nutritional Healing Technologies - Alternative medicines, bath products and gift baskets.
Nutritional Products Store - A variety of organic vegetable sprouts in capsules.
NZ Health Naturally - Offers products for joint support, vitality, immune system, heart health, and stress. Worldwide distribution.
Organic Health and Beauty - Sells vitamins, minerals, immune system boosters, detox products, superfoods, and beauty products.
Parmalab Corporation - Sales of Prolex, a height booster treatment.
Performing Science - Offers a variety of vitamin, mineral, and anti-aging products.
Phi Sciences - Innovations of body and mind by Dr. G. Patrick Flanagan and associates.
Physicians Healthlabs - Offers specialty formulations supporting the immune system, digestion, joints, inflamation reduction, and other health concerns.
PrimalDefense.net - Sells multi-vitamins, minerals, health concern formulations, energy, enzyme, colostrum, and antioxidants.
Priority One Vitamins - Selling vitamins, minerals, herbs, and specialties to doctors and patients.
Pure Health Systems - Offers anti-aging, joint support, hormone replacement, HGH, EFA, colostrum, and superfoods.
Pure Prescriptions - Vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and immune booster supplements. Also offers herbal formulas.
Reality Health Research, Inc. - Offers liquid minerals, multi-vitamins, digestive aids, immune boosters, and other general health specialties.
Riverbend Nutrition - Vitamins and minerals, herbals, weight control, green foods, and specialty formulas.
Scalar Herbal Wellness - Vitamins and minerals, phytochemicals, and herbal formulas.
Schiff Vitamins - Offers vitamin, minerals and herbals plus Move On joint support products.
Select Naturals - Selecting alternatives for natural healing with whole food supplements, Herbs, Vitamins, minerals, natural progesterone and alternative medicine.
ShapeStore.com - Offers multi-vitamin, mineral, anti-oxidant, anti-aging, anti-stress, anti-fatigue, immune-supporting, performance-enhancing product.
Smarter Health Corporation - Providing traditional herbs combined with modern vitamins and minerals.
Solanova - Specialty formula supplements specializing in CoQ10 and liquid minerals. Also offers skin care products.
Swan Products - Offers herbs, vitamins, bodybuilding, and weight loss products.
Take Your Vitamins - Sells a proprietary line of nutrition, herbs, teas, and health concern specialties.
Therapeutic Enzyme Formulations - Enzymedica enzymes contains the highest active units of therapeutic enzymes.
Thermal Plus - Everything from weight loss supplements, dietary aids, glutamine, creatine monohydrate, and fitness equipment.
Transfer Point - Offers beta glucan products, MSM, glucosamine, and vitamin C.
Two Farm Kids Natural Foods - Offers vitamins and herbal supplements
TyH Online - TyH offers supplements for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Creator of the original Fibro-Care, TyH provides quality supplements for fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, arthritis...
Uka Kava - Organic kava kava root products to aid in insomia, stress and anxiety, relaxing tired muscles.
Ultimate Vitality - Supplements for colon care, weight loss, and general health.
Vita 13 - Offers a multi-vitamin also containing minerals and herbs.
Vitabrain - Offers nootropyl drugs and herbals.
VitaBuys - Vitamins, minerals, herbals, and nutritional supplements.
Vital Basics Inc. - Sells Focus Factor and Dr. Alibek's Immune System Support Formula.
Vital Botanicals - Offers natural immune boosting extracts, tinctures and capsules of Echinacea angustifolia, Astragalus and Maitake Mushroom (Grifola frondosa).
Vitamin Factory - Sells vitamins, minerals, herbs, men's, women's, amino acids, antioxidants, and other specialties.
VitaminBoost.com - Offers vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients with products listed by health concerns.
VitaminLab - Sells vitamins, minerals, herbs, antioxidants, amino acids, joint support, EFA, and herbs.
VitaMist - Offers oral spray vitamins, minerals, herbals, and a list of specialties.
Vitasentials.com - Offers a wide variety of nutrients with technical information.
Vitimmune - Vitamin and mineral formulas for the treatment of immune disorders, allergies, and poor energy.
The Way Up to Fitness - Free form amino acids, vitamins and minerals, protein powders, and hormone replacements. Also offers herbal blends.
Wellife - Offers amino acids, chlorella, isotonic beverage mix, joint support, and skin care.
Wellness Health and Pharmacy - Manufacturer of pharmaceutical grade vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and nutraceutical supplements.
Wellness Resources - Offers nutrition, herbs, male and female specialties, and a variety of health concern products.
Yasoo Health, Inc. - Specializes in heart health, essential fatty acids, and vitamin E specialties.
Young Again Nutrients - Offers men's and women's, weightloss, circulatory system, DHEA, and other specialty products.
Zest for Life - Offers vitamins, minerals, and many health concern formulations.
ZippyOn.com - Offers vitamins, minerals, herbals, joint support, weight loss, and other specialties.

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