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The accuracy of medical advice given by staff at natural food stores is compared to that given by staff at community pharmacies, based on the balance of available scientific evidence.
Employees in natural food stores have been caught giving advice that is not only scientifically baseless, but also risky and downright dangerous.
Most health food store supplement aisle employees have little or no training and make wildly dissimilar recommendations. Even when they’re consistent, the levels of active ingredients in supplements may not be. We should not assume the multibillion dollar supplement industry has our best interests any closer to heart than the pharmaceutical industry.
Studies in the U.S. and Canada focus on what advice and supplements natural food store employees would offer a woman suffering from breast cancer.
Growing your own broccoli sprouts is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve your diet.
The safe upper limit of licorice consumption, and why pregnant women may be at particularly high risk.
How to buy goji berries cheaper than raisins.
Case reports of people ending up in a coma after drinking kombucha tea.
A cheap herbal remedy may significantly reduce the pain associated with both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
La potencial neurotoxicidad de los suplementos de espirulina es otra preocupación.
