Intake of dietary supplements is widespread among athletes in developed countries. This study evaluated the use of dietary supplements in athletes from a developing country. Dietary supplementation practices of 113 national-level athletes age 15-35 yr in Sri Lanka were assessed. All athletes from track-and-field, badminton, football, swimming, cycling, and karate squads who consented to partici...

It is increasingly evident that physicians should routinely ask patients with bipolar disorder about the use of dietary supplements. In our recent study of 348 patients with bipolar disorder, about 3 out of 10 patients used dietary supplements in addition to prescribed drugs, with 2 in 10 of these taking supplements for the long term (Bauer et al. 2015). The patients tried about 40 different su...

conclusions the used protocol is not enough for treating vitamin d deficiency. furthermore, the protocol should be revised according to baseline vitamin d classification. results after initial evaluation, 116 cases were found to be deficient, and were divided into two equal groups of 58. no significant difference was found between the normal, treated and non-treated groups regarding age and gen...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically throughout the world, and weight reduction through lifestyle management is urgently warranted. At present, numerous supplements advertised for their anti-overweight property are available in the Japanese market, but most of these lack proper evidence. Thus, we investigated dietary supplements that have been tested in clinical trial...

Vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, dietary fibers and the other so many chemicals are called as supplements. They widely used worldwide. Across all major categories overall supplement use has increased year by year. By definition, they should maintain nutrients otherwise that may not be consumed in adequate amounts. So much supplements simply taken for healthy life, but some reduce modulat...

In seminal work, Potts (2005) claimed that the behavior of “supplements”—appositive relative clauses (ARCs) and nominals—offers a powerful argument in favor multidimensional semantics, one which certain expressions fail to interact scopally with various operators because their meaning is located new semantic dimension. Focusing on ARCs, data from English, French, German (Poschmann 2018), I expl...