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Food supplements. how good and dangerous are they to our health?
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Deficiency?: If there is a known deficiency, supplements can be quite helpful. Otherwise, if you have a healthy diet, benefits are non existent. Dangers are quite limited, mainly related to adulteration in manufacturing.
Answered 2/14/2014
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