Health Supplement

In China known as health Food, Japan called functional Food, in Europe and the United States generally known as "Healthy Food" or "Nutritional Food" The Japanese government on functional Food has the following provisions: (1) as a food, it is composed of commonly used raw materials or ingredients and is ingested in the usual form and method. (2) It is a food that is daily ingested. (3) It should be marked with relevant regulatory functions. "Depending on the object of the health food can be divided into two categories: one is: daily health food, such as: specialized production of milk powder for children, health drink, etc Second: specific people taking health food, such as: anti-aging food, antitumor, prevent dementia food, diabetic food, cardio-cerebrovascular disease in patients with special food and skin food and so on. < At present, health care products in China are defined as a kind of food with the function of regulating human physiology and adapting to the consumption of specific groups, but not for the purpose of treatment. This kind of food in addition to the general food all have nutritional and sensory function, color, aroma, taste and shape, but also has general foods don't have or don't emphasize the third function, namely the function of adjusting human body's physiological activity, therefore is called "health food From the above definition, health care products based on food, embodied in the regulation. < From the point of view of experts: the functional positioning of health care products should clearly target the sub-health state (or sub-clinical state) prevalent in the population, adjust, alleviate and improve the pre-disease state of the population, and provide preventive health security. According to the dose analysis, the dose of the active ingredient in a health product is usually only 1/3 to 1/4 of that of an OTC product.

Its safety standard is the first, under the premise of safety, its efficacy ingredients according to their recommended dosage, play a relief, conditioning and stimulate the normal operation of the human body's own system. From the above definition of health care products, experts' point of view, dose analysis, health care products do not naturally have therapeutic function, the efficacy positioning of health care products must be different from drugs, health care products should not compete with drugs in efficacy, otherwise, they will limit their own development opportunities. Health care products become health care products, its essence is different from medicine, it is impossible to ask the standard of medicine health care products ii, establish the correct concept of health care do not enter the misunderstanding of health care many people think: Health care is to make up for what is missing. If you eat it, you should have an immediate effect. If it doesn't work in the short term, you will think that this health care product "doesn't work". Health care products as a kind of nutritional supplements, just make up the human body to inadequate intake of certain nutrients in the diet, and all of the nutrients in the body is through metabolism, consumption at any time, many nutrients are the body's own unable to synthesis, so the nutritional supplement is need to have a meal, drink intake every day in the United States, The average annual sales volume of nutritional supplements in the United States has reached 50 billion DOLLARS. Daily intake of all necessary supplements has become a daily compulsory course. It can be seen that they are not only aware of the need for health care, but also have established a correct and healthy concept of health care. Indeed, health care, is a long-term work, it is not realistic to want once and for all, also is not scientific, only perserve, this kind of nutrient can be absorbed gradually in your body, accumulate, quietly bring gratifying changes for your body.
Improving body immunity requires comprehensive measures, including exercise, diet, sleep, vaccination, immunomodulator, prevention and treatment methods and many other aspects. But with the quickening pace of life, health care products are more and more popular
Classification of daily health care products
Nutritional health care products with vitamins and minerals as the main components
These supplements mainly contain vitamins and minerals (micronutrients and macroelements). These nutrients are needed by the human body, some are easy to lack, it is not easy to take enough from ordinary food, and special groups such as pregnant women, nursing mothers, children and so on, need to increase the dosage, some health care products contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, is a comprehensive supplement; Also have to contain vitamin or mineral to give priority to, it is single oneness supplement
Health care products that extract effective nutrients from natural or precious plants as raw materials
These health care products mainly extract and concentrate the most useful nutritional essence in natural plants, such as protein extracted from soybeans, nutrients extracted from red beans, black beans, ginkgo biloba leaves and other plants. Most of these health care products are not suitable for children. Pregnant women in the choice of this kind of health care products should also pay attention to some contain
Medicinal health products are not suitable for pregnant women to eat
It is a kind of tonic health care product with rare Chinese medicine or plants and animals with medicinal value as the main raw materials
Such as ginseng, deer antler, ganoderma lucidum, ginkgo, black chicken, turtle, etc., this kind of health care products are not suitable for children to eat, pregnant women had better not choose this kind of health care products, it is recommended to choose the nutrition health care products with clear ingredients
Health care products made from active ingredients extracted from Marine organisms
Such as deep sea fish oil, Marine especially deep sea creatures liver extract oil, rich in vitamins A and D, carotene, lecithin, bezoar acid and other nutrients, promote calcium absorption and utilization, improve, protect cardiovascular function, promote the brain development, the stability of cell membrane, reduce and delay the cell apoptosis, improve immune function. But some deep-sea fish oils contain androgens that are not suitable for mothers and children
Health care products made from animal colostrum
Animal colostrum contains high quality protein and immune protein, can improve the body immunity. Mothers had better not eat this kind of health care products during pregnancy. It has been reported that children taking colostrum for a long time may cause premature puberty due to estrogen contained in colostrum, but this has yet to be further confirmed. &
"Seventh nutrient" - dietary fiber - based health care products
Dietary fiber is known as the seventh nutrient, more and more attention. Dietary fiber can not only accelerate the discharge of intestinal waste, but also clean up the role of the environment inside the human body, so, also known as "scavenger". But the suitability of these supplements for children remains to be seen. Children had better not eat this kind of health care products, pregnant women can take, to consult a doctor
Supplement health care products appropriately
Although health care products have the function of preventing diseases, but can not replace medicine and normal diet, reasonable diet is the main way to provide the nutrition needed by the human body. Health care products can improve the immune function of human body, but we can not ignore the natural immune process of human body itself. If the body is short of iron, white blood cell bactericidal function is weakened. However, too many supplements containing iron will also inhibit the bactericidal function of white blood cells. Therefore, improper eating of health care products will not enhance the body's immunity, but will reduce the immune function do not completely reject health care products, but it is best to consult a doctor. Health care products are not the best, there is no bad, but there are suitable for you and not suitable for you. Suitable for the right amount is helpful to improve immunity, is one of the ways to improve immunity; Not suitable, not in moderation, is not helpful, and may be harmful.