{"id":108854,"date":"2021-12-06T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=108854"},"modified":"2021-12-10T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:28:23","slug":"nih-news-in-health-making-sense-of-vitamins-herbs-and-other-supplements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/nih-news-in-health-making-sense-of-vitamins-herbs-and-other-supplements\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH News in Health: Making Sense of Vitamins, Herbs and Other Supplements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/newsinhealth.nih.gov\/2021\/12\/do-you-need-dietary-supplements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do you need dietary supplements?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bottles of supplements line the shelves at your local supermarket. These include vitamins and minerals from A to zinc. You can also find products like probiotics, herbs and fish oil. But are they needed for good health? And what about their risks?<\/p>\n<p>Some botanical products may come with health claims that go too far, says Ikhlas Khan, an NIH-funded natural products researcher at the <a href=\"https:\/\/olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Mississippi<\/a>. Examples include helping you &#8220;sleep better&#8221; or &#8220;lose weight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsinhealth.nih.gov\/2021\/12\/do-you-need-dietary-supplements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the complete report here.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you need dietary supplements? Bottles of supplements line the shelves at your local supermarket. These include vitamins and minerals from A to zinc. You can also find products like probiotics, herbs and fish oil. But are they needed for good health? 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Some botanical products may come with health claims<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/nih-news-in-health-making-sense-of-vitamins-herbs-and-other-supplements\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the story &#x2026;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,482,126],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NIH News in Health: Making Sense of Vitamins, Herbs and Other Supplements - Ole Miss News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/nih-news-in-health-making-sense-of-vitamins-herbs-and-other-supplements\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NIH News in Health: Making Sense of Vitamins, Herbs and Other Supplements - Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do you need dietary supplements? 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