保健品的不健康之處

Sales of health supplements have soared in recent years. It’s such a huge market that manufacturers spend around £40 million a year just telling us about their products. As supplements are either made from natural substances or mimic substances produced by our bodies, many people assume they cannot do any harm. But we’re wrong, say health professionals. They point out that the health supplement industry is unregulated, which means manufacturers are not required to list potential side-effects – nor do their products have to go through costly clinical trials. “Health supplements can produce ill effects,” warns Anna, from the British Dietetic Association.
保健品的銷售量在近幾年大幅飆升。這真是一個巨大的市場，廠家每年花費4000萬僅爲了宣傳他們的產品。補品要麼是天然物質製造的，要麼是來自我們身體的變種物，所以許多人認爲它們不會造成任何傷害。但健康專家說我們錯了。他們指出保健品產業是未調節的，也就是說生產商不需提供產品的潛在負面信息，也不需經過昂貴的臨牀試驗。“保健品可能造成不良影響。”來自英國飲食協會的安娜說。