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Are your dieting, health food safe?
Body showed abnormal reaction, or health damage, by taking vitamins : NCAC investigates
By JCPRESS
National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan (NCAC) announced the result of "National life trend investigation" that had been done for 3000 housewives who resided in the city.
The person who had the experience of taking "Health food" reached about 70 percent among about 2,000 of those who answered.
The person of 25 percent was answering, "I use most every day".
However, there were 1.5-percent person who had answered, "The condition of the body had worsened after it had taken it", too.
Food that caused the health damage was the vitamins, diet foods, minerals, collagen, dietary fibers, and royal jellies.