Some people follow whole dietary systems, others take various kinds of supplements.
According to the FDA dietary supplement will be taken to either affect structure or function of the body, or to supplement the diet. 
- Food is consumed for its taste, aroma or nutritive value.
- Only drugs are classified as being able to diagnose, cure mitigate, treat or prevent disease.
- Cosmetics are applied to the body for cleansing, beautifying or altering appearance
- Algorithm of Dietary Supplement and Associated Definitions
Reading a dietary supplement label is much like reading a nutrition facts label.
- The most commonly used dietary supplement in the United States is a general multivitamin–mineral supplement (used by 36% of females and 31% of males in the US)
- vitamin E and vitamin C are also popular supps
Current Trends in Dietary Supplement Use:
nHigher intake with increasing age, white race, and females
nDSHEA definition of a dietary suppliment: “a product (other than tobacco) that is intended to supplement the diet that bears or contains one or more of the following dietary ingredients: a vitamin, a mineral, an herb or other botanical, an amino acid, a dietary substance for use by man to supplement the diet by increasing the total daily intake, or a concentrate, metabolite, constituent, extract, or combinations of these ingredients.”
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