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BOB LAMENDOLA, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-25-2006

Caution flags over specialized vitamins
By BOB LAMENDOLA, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
Date: 04-25-2006, Tuesday
Section: HEALTH
Edtion: All Editions

Walk a supermarket or drug store health aisle and you'll find special vitamins for women, men, over-50s, seniors and teens. For low-carb fans, dieters, high-cholesterol sufferers and gym rats. Vitamins come with ginseng, green tea and soy.

One firm even makes a new line of "genetically specific" vitamins with versions for black, Hispanic and white men and women.

With three of four households buying vitamins, makers are aiming supplements at specific people, hanging ...

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