A dietary supplement, also known as food supplement or nutritional supplement, is a preparation intended to supplement the diet and provide nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, fiber, fatty acids, or amino acids, that may be missing or may not be consumed in sufficient quantity in a person's diet. Some countries define dietary supplements as foods, while in others they are defined as drugs or natural health products.

Diet (nutrition) or the lack thereof influences disease and health in major ways. Nutritional supplementation is essential to a healthy life in today’s society. The majority of the foods consumed today are deficient in minerals and vitamins necessary for a healthy life. Also our high-stress lives often demand higher levels of nutrition than our diets provide, illness and  disease increase the nutritional demand on the body.

 Nutrition should be more than buying supplements and taking them. All supplementation should be under the guidance of a skilled health care professional, making recommendations only after adequate testing has been performed.

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