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Article: Experts ask policy change on health claims: nutraceuticals could reduce U.S. health care costs, conferees say. (part 1)
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- Food Processing
- Article date:
- April 1, 1993
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Nutraceuticals could reduce U.S. health care costs, conferees say.
It is the year 2010, and a shopper at a food and nutrition supermarket stops to check with the store's nutritionist before gathering up his purchases. They include plenty of vegetables seasoned with garlic, high-fiber bread and breakfast muffins, as well as fish oil supplement capsules - all safe and government-approved products. The shopper knows he is increasing the probability that he will not develop the debilitating heart disease that claimed his father, and that he will not have to endure chemotherapy for colon cancer as his mother has. Into his shopping cart are going food products and ...