"The nutrition supplements tide" was fashionable in the U.S. early, now land in Japan. It is distinguish from previous "healthy food tide" that was favorite with consumers.
Before this event, most of supplements such as the victims, healthy medicine were sought after by the middle-aged men who have beer belly, and the office workers who always working exhausted; or some of healthy food that can ease the pain of menopause for women and decline the risk of muscles weaken. However, the objects of this tide are mainly concentrates in women and a new generation of the young who are fond of losing weight, beauty and body sculpting.
Along with several years, in the U.S. where nutrition supplements are in vogue in the unprecedented, through survey, indeed there are nearly sixty percents of adults often take nutrition supplements. In the treatment of hospital, patients are suggested to take nutrition supplements to take the place of drugs, to keep health. It is reported that now in America, doctors give the guidance in the medicine prescription to patients, nutrition supplements account for 70%, and 30% are drugs. Learn from the above investigation, the United State has been a country that uses nutrition supplements generally. No matter doctors in America or in European areas, they use nutrition supplements in the treatment and advocate patients to keep health with reasonable supplements.
Under the survey of some magazine, the scale of nutrition supplements of the U.S in 2000 grew rapidly to the approximately 16,730,000,000 dollars.
It is said besides the U.S., there are almost few countries as the U.S., is keen on maintain the body health and cure the disease with nutrition supplements, in fact there are special reasons for nutrition supplements to be fashionable in America, because the number of people suffer from obesity, cancer, heart disease is increasing, those diseases are caused by living environment, diet habits, simultaneously the medical fee is too expensive to afford, and make nationals think out proper methods to inhibit the occurrence of trend. Because of its prevented feature, nutrition supplements can be favored by people, that is an inevitable result.
There is another measure to speed up the development of US's nutrition supplements, it is DSHEA that issued in 1994. Before issuing this act, Food and Drug Administration of America is very strict with the functional description of nutrition supplements. But after issuing the act, only if the nutrition supplements produce basic on science, and notice the FDA, later the related information about the function of nutrition supplements can be marked on the merchandize.
So, in Japan, the nutrition supplements are in line of food, but in the U.S., FDA classifies as food and medicine.
Oct 1994, the former U.S. President Bill Clinton said at the moment when signed the act, "the diet is very significance for nationals with their lifestyle and life, meanwhile they also focus on this issue. In order to improve nationals' health, the action of formulating the act about nutrition supplements is followed with developed trend." The words of Clinton accelerated nutrition supplements' development, improve the popularity of nutrition supplements in the mind of Americans.
Another reason is high medical expense that caused by different healthy insurance systems.