Dietary Supplements
15% of dietary supplements of substandard quality, says FSSAI survey
Shoddy products don't have health benefits and may cause diseases even, say experts
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Govt to establish dietary supplements testing labs: Sports Secretary
To prevent "inadvertent" use of prohibited substances by the athletes, the government will establish laboratories for testing dietary supplements, sports secretary Sujata Chaturvedi said on Saturday. Many sports persons, after failing dope tests, have claimed that they ingested prohibited substances 'inadvertently' through dietary supplements. Chaturvedi emphasised on having regulated testing facilities for the dietary supplements. "We recently entered into an MoU with the National Forensic Science University, Ahmedabad and the Food Safety Standards Authority of India, for a lab to help with the dietary supplement testing," Chaturvedi said at a function orgainsed by FICCI. "We are now heading towards a completely revamped national anti-doping programme housed in our National Anti-doping Agency," Chaturvedi said during the TURF2022 & India Sports Awards event. In August, the Parliament passed the National Anti-Doping Bill which seeks to provide a statutory framework for the ...
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Muscle & Strength to add 20 more stores in north India by next year
Muscle & Strength's revenue grew by more than 25 per cent during the past one year
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India to be Herbalife Nutrition's largest market globally: CEO
The company's biggest market is the United States where its business started and it has become a much more mature market with penetration across the country
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Zomato to soon deliver dietary, skin supplements, says CEO Deepinder Goyal
In a tweet, Goyal said: "Functional foods.. coming soon to your favourite food app. @zomato".
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Even when families have issues, eating together can improve teen diets
The differences in healthy food intake were small but statistically meaningful
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Why scientists use vitamin D, turmeric and other supplements
About a billion people are vit D deficient and their immune systems are at risk; a great healer, turmeric can even be used to cure cancer
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