Supplements for Health and Healing

PLEASE NOTE: The materials we begin with concern extensive information about supplements cancer patients can use. SOON there will be additional information for non-cancer related conditions and for general health.

More and more research comes out every day about how nutritional supplements ...vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other pills, potions, and powders that supplement our diet...may make us healthier. And more and more of us are taking them.

About 63% of Americans are now taking supplements. And most of us have no idea what's in them or how they affect us. We buy what the health food or vitamin store clerk recommends. Or we get them from someone who sells supplements in their spare time to make some extra dough. Or we take them because Aunt Mary or Joe Blow down the block thinks we should.

And have you tried to read up on supplements? It's like driving in a strange city without a map or directions. So many big and clinical words make the information almost impossible to understand.

So there's a real need for easy to understand information about supplements. Giving you this type of information is the purpose of this section. Most of the supplement information in this section comes from the book, Supplement Savvy, a modular Supplement Education System for Registered Dietitians and Supplement Savvy Specialists. The user-friendly patient education materials from Supplement Savvy are reproduced here in a text-only format. Cancer, Volume I is now available in this section. Wellness will be available by January 1, 2003, and Digestive Health by February 15, 2003. For more information about the entire Supplement Savvy system, please visit the Supplement Savvy section of the www.supplementsavvyRD.com website.

After you've read your fill about supplements, you may still feel you need some expert advice to choose the right ones for you. Please read the article, What is a Supplement Savvy Specialist? to help you choose the right expert. Whether you consult an expert or use the expert information on the following pages, you'll be more Supplement Savvy.