In today's society, people pay more attention on health and often eat health foods to maintain their health condition. But the market's dazzling array of health foods often make you unable to tell the difference between them and medicines.
First, the functions of health foods and medicines are different. Health foods refer to foods with specific health functions or supplements for vitamins and minerals. However, medicines are for the purpose of treating diseases. In terms of function, health foods play their own functions by regulating and improving the functions of the body, but drugs mainly function through drug ingredients. In terms of the content of the active ingredient, the amount of the functional ingredient of the health food is generally lower than the therapeutic dose of the medicine, which also determines that the health food is usually slower than the medicine in terms of functioning periods.
As it can be seen from the above, when we are sick, we must choose medication, which will quickly helps our body to recover from the illness. When the body is in a sub-health state, such as malnutrition, lack of sleep and memory loss, we can choose the appropriate health food according to the actual situation, and follow the label information or nutrition professional’s advise for a period of time until the body returns to normal.
Can health foods be consumed regularly like common foods for a long time?
You may often see similar media reports that someone who has been eating health food for a long time has caused harm to the body. These tragedies mainly tell us that we should eat health food properly. First of all, consumers should choose their own health food according to their own health status and health food function; secondly, each health food has a targeting population, and some people are not suitable for consume certain health foods. Everyone should pay attention when buying the health food; finally,before eating functional health food, please read the “Precautions” for health foods to see if there are any problems that need attention or if it is suitable for you to consume the products. By doing this, you can safely eat health food for an extended time.
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