Shopping for a multivitamin has crossed the line from being confusing to becoming mind-bending. On a recent visit to a CVS store in the New York City area, our reporter counted no fewer than 50 ...
When the Institute of Medicine announced last fall that it was changing the amount of vitamin D it recommends most adults get each day from 200 international units (IU) to 600 IU, some critics ...
Americans want to believe in vitamin and mineral pills: We spent an estimated $10 billion on them in 2008, according to the Nutrition Business Journal. But recent studies undertaken to assess ...
U.S. consumers spent $753 million in 2012 on supplements of glucosamine and ... tissue variety got high marks in a 2010 survey of Consumer Reports online readers who tried it for osteoarthritis.
We Americans do love our dietary supplements. More than half of the ... Eventually, hundreds of other reports of adverse reactions to the product came to the attention of the FDA, which inspected ...
Americans are buying more fish-oil supplements than ever, but in industry-standard tests of 15 top-selling brands conducted by an outside lab for Consumer Reports, five fell a bit short.
So we reviewed the label, which lists more than 40 vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other ingredients. Many of them, such as vitamins C, D, E, and B vitamins, are the same nutrients you can find in ...