Lesson 3 Biologically Based Products Flashcards
use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, and vitamins.
Biologically Based Therapies
examples of BBT
dietary supplements, herbal products, and the use of other so-called "natural" but
as yet scientifically unproven therapies
Therapeutic claim of shark cartilage
Cancer
These include the use of a vast array of vitamins and mineral supplements, natural products herbals,; and unconventional diets,
BBT
derived from bovine or shark cartilage
chondroitin sulfate,
herbals, of BBT
ginkgo biloba and echinacea;
unconventional diets of BBT
low-carbohydrate approach to
weight loss espoused by the late Robert Atkins.
variety of herbal medicines (also known as botanicals), vitamins, minerals, Many are sold over the counter as dietary supplements
Natural Products
(Some uses of dietary supplements
multivitamin to meet minimum daily nutritional
requirements or taking calcium to promote bone health
live microorganisms (usually bacteria) that are similar to
microorganisms normally found in the human digestive tract and that may have beneficial effects.
PROBIOTICS
CAM natural products
PROBIOTICS
PREBIOTICS
nondigestible food ingredients that selectively stimulate the growth and/or activity of
microorganisms already present in the body.
PREBIOTICS
Probiotic example
Yakult
Yoghurt
Herbal or botanical medicines reflect some of the first attempts to improve the human
condition.
Historical notes
Historical note: example
mummified prehistoric “ice man”
mummified prehistoric “ice man” found
Italian Alps in 1991
Who found that 17.7 percent of American adults had used a non-vitamin/non-mineral natural
product
National Health Interview survey
most
commonly used product among adults
fish oil/omega 3s (reported by 37.4 percent
popular products for children
echinacea (37.2 percent) and fish
oil/omega 3s (30.5 percent).
describes a broad and diverse category of products that you eat or drink
to support good health and supplement the diet.
Dietary supplements
True or false
Dietary supplements are medicines, nor should they
be considered a substitute for food
False
True or false:
Dietary supplements are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure or alleviate the effects of diseases.
True
useful use of deitary supplements
reducing the risk of certain diseases and
are authorized to make label claims about these uses.
supplements may make a
claim about reducing the risk of birth defects of the brain and spinal cord
Folic acid
