Diet pills action

The Food and Drug Administration, the agency that oversees pharmaceuticals, alerts consumers to heart-related risks associated with newly developed medications such as antidiabetes drugs, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drugs, and diet pills. The FDA oversees the manufacturing of medical devices and takes action when devices such as stents or pacemakers are suspected of acting in a faulty manner. 

Differences in preferred dose form, availability of suppositories in France, injections in Italy, pills in the United Kingdom and polypharmacy in Japan, reflect medical practice, education and practice conditions. There is great emphasis and concern in Germany over the heart and diet in France over the liver in the United Kingdom over viruses and in the United States over hypertension and obesity. Only in 1999 were oral contraceptives approved in Japan, a brave action, for it may increase the falling rate of Japanese population replacement, shared with Italy and Western nations (excluding the United States). All reflect a different but small emphases on drug development. 

A widely accepted definition of a functional food can be found in the consensus document produced by the Concerted Action on Functional Food Science in Europe, which was coordinated by the International Life Sciences Institute (Diplock et al, 1999). This states that foods can be regarded as functional if they can be satisfactorily demonstrated to have a beneficial effect on one or more target functions in the body, beyond adequate nutritional effects, that leads to an improved state of health and well-being and/or to a reduction in disease risk. Functional foods must remain foods and they must achieve their effects in amounts that would be consumed normally in the diet. They are not pills or supplements. 

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