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• Nutraceutical


  A food (or part of a food) that provides medical or health benefits, including the prevention and/or treatment of a disease
• The term "nutraceutical" was coined from "nutrition" and "pharmaceutical" in 1989 by Stephen DeFelice, MD, founder and chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine (FIM), Cranford, NJ
• Dietary supplement

  • 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
  • Is intended for ingestion in pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid form
  • Is not represented for use as a conventional food or as the sole item of a meal or diet
  • Is labeled as a "dietary supplement"
  • Includes products such as an approved new drug, certified antibiotic, or licensed biologic that was marketed as a dietary supplement or food before approval, certification, or license (unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services waives this provision)
• Nutraceuticals are represented for use as a conventional food or as the sole item of meal or diet
• Patients have a "cure preference" around nutraceuticals

  Because of their false perception that "all natural medicines are good"
• The high cost of prescription pharmaceuticals and reluctance of some insurance companies to cover the costs of drugs

  Helps nutraceuticals solidify their presence in the global market of therapies and therapeutic agents
• The use of nutraceuticals, as an attempt to accomplish desirable therapeutic outcomes with reduced side effects, as compared with other therapeutic agents has met with great monetary success