National Institute of Health and Nutrition of Independent Policy Corporation (web) started up a new site "Effectiveness and safety information on 'Health food'" in the Internet on July 14.
The site is composed of "Basic knowledge concerning use", "Safety information and information related to damage", "Scientific information on the food element of the topic", and "Material information data base of 'Health food'" about health food.
Dietitian, national registered dietitian, pharmacist, doctor, nurse, and researchers offer information based on the scientific basis by which the opinion is added to the material that this laboratory offered.
Heizou Tanaka, chief directors of this laboratory, greeted it on the homepage , saying that "We offer information to not only the specialist of the national registered dietitian and the pharmacist but also general people. The information is the one based on the scientific basis. We are allies of the consumer".
The site took up reported a lot of of health damage comfrey and Sauropus androgynus by "Safety information and information related to damage".
Moreover, the net publishes information with "There is no relation between the bittern and the effect of weight reduction" in "Basic knowledge concerning use".
The information warns as "There are neither grounds nor a document that surely proves the effect of weight reduction" of an excessive intake for a bittern and magnesium popular as the health food expressed, "The absorption of sugar is delayed" and "The absorption of fat is blocked".