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Article: Vitamins and minerals: passing fads or keys to health? (includes related article) (Cover Story)
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- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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As more and more people turn to supplemental nutrients for disease prevention, laboratorians will be called upon to monitor their progress.
UNTIL RECENTLY, vitamin and mineral enthusiasts were considered far from the mainstream and out of touch with advances in medicine. Such attitudes are changing.
Respected clinical organizations, the National Cancer Institute and the American Heart Association among them, now consider vitamins and minerals necessary for preventive medicine. In fact, they were recently accorded what may be the most indicative sign of public acceptance and widespread use--Federal intervention and potential regulation (see 'War of the rose ...