Quality of Supplements Recently, the news has been focusing its attention towards the $5 billion dollar supplement industry and the quality of its products. The US Senate’s consumer protection panel was shown grilling Dr. Oz on the many weight loss “miracle solutions” he has developed or recommended. The same can be said about the rules and regulation here in Canada. Although, there is a database for licensed natural health products that many consumers are unaware of. Even if a natural health product is approved by Health Canada, the quality of the supplement can still be lacking. Due to this problem, Back to Health Wellness Centre uses only the best companies available that go above the normal standards! A major question then becomes, how do you know if my supplement is of good quality? There is a book for health professionals by the name Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements by Lyle MacWilliam. With it’s 5th edition recently released, the author Lyle MacWilliam, MSc, FP, has been a scientific consultant and public advocate for the supplement industry. His past position as a consultant for Health Canada was to develop a regulatory framework for the manufacture and sale of nutritional supplements in the Canadian marketplace. At Back to Health Wellness Centre we currently use this guide as a reference for the types of supplements that we should be carrying. Our clinic carries supplements developed by Douglas Laboratories, Metagenics, Pure Encapsulations, Seroyal and Thorne. These supplements all rate at least a 4 or higher out of 5 on the ratings scale developed in MacWilliam’s book. In contrast, supplements from Centrum, Jamieson and Kirkland Signature rate a 2.5 or lower on the same scale. To evaluate the supplements, the book uses 18 categories to factor into the scale. Without the necessary regulations it’s up to you, the consumer, to filter out the bad supplements from the good.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:00:00 +0000
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