"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 tide, the used scope of supplements is only limited in the crowed of middle-aged men who take on the symptom of high blood pressure, and people with large pressure, and these nutrition supplements usually are victims or healthy medicine; 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.
Since a few years, in America where nutrition supplements are popular with people in the unprecedented, according to investigation, actually the proportion of adults use nutrition supplements accounts for sixty percents. 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. About the item, doctors use nutrition supplements generally in the treatment, doctors are not in exception in European countries or areas.
According to the related magazine's investigation, purely in America, the market sales of nutrition supplements increasingly to the nearly 16,730,000,000 dollars in 2000.
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, as due to living surroundings and diet habits, proportion of encountering overweight, cancer, and heart disease is getting grow, 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.
The implementation of DSHEA in 1994, directly accelerate the advanced step of nutrition supplements. 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.
October1994, when signed this act, U.S. President Bill Clinton of that moment said:" the diet is essential to national people for their lifestyle and life, at the same time national people also care about this issue. In order to improve nationals' health, the action of formulating the act about nutrition supplements is followed with developed trend." With the words of Clinton, nutrition supplements develop faster, promote the image of nutrition supplements in the view of customers.
Another reason is high medical expense that caused by different healthy insurance systems.
