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Over the past 20 years the use of dietary supplements as adjuvant therapy for weight loss
gained growing favor among consumers and dietician–nutritionists, with the subsequent …

ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES, Mar/apr 2008, VOL. 14, NO. 2 61 Randomized Controlled
Trials and the Law would it be to conduct a randomised control [sic] trial of a weight loss …

Herbal products for weight reduction may ultimately prove to be helpful in overcoming
clinically significant obesity when combined with healthy diet and lifestyle changes. The …

In a world in which consumer interest, as well as industry interest, is increasingly focused on
dietary supplements, it is important to understand the nature of federal regulation and …

Alternative medicine has now belatedly become a major focus of legitimate scientific
investigation, with significant federal resources and major congressional support devoted to …

As the population of the world expands, so too does its waistline. This is especially true for
those people in Western, developed countries. Much of the increased obesity is probably …

Dietitians face both a responsibility and an opportunity to address the ethical issues of
obesity treatment and to promote weight management strategies that are beneficial and …

The apparent anti-nutritional-supplement, anti-self-care bias that permeated the process of
setting safety levels is evident both in the way in which the SUL was defined and in the fact …