dietary supplements

By Steven DeKosky, University of Florida

Organic or so-called "natural" products are all the craze. People wrongly believe, often because of purposefully misleading advertising, that these products are safer and healthier than other products.

A dietary supplement spiked with a real prescription drug? That's about as newsworthy as it becoming dark after sunset.

As I have written many times, the laws and regulations that govern dietary supplements are a bad joke.

Earlier this month Dr.

I guess you know you've hit the big time when nut logs start including you in conspiracy theories.

Dietary supplement use, albeit nutritional products or alternative medicines, is a very lucrative industry that is for the most part riddled with overly auspicious claims in support of the notion they are a panacea.

One time when I was a little kid, our family visited Arizona. We went to a restaurant somewhere out in the desert that served fried rattlesnake. As you probably guessed, it tastes like chicken.

Orrin Hatch, a Republican Senator from Utah, has announced his retirement. When he leaves, the Senate will lose its most ardent supporter of alternative medicine.

There are many reasons not to take dietary supplements, just take a look at some of the stuff we've written in the past.  But to jog your memory, here are five reasons not to start taking dietary supplements, or multivitamins.