Americans using more vitamin and mineral supplements.More than one-third of American adults use vitamin and mineral supplements daily, a marked increase from 23.7 percent in 1992. Supplement users tend to be women and older people, and they tend to live in the West and Northeast. Daily use of vitamins A, C, and E has also increased compared to previous surveys. Calcium use has increased in the past 8 years, with 11 percent of respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. using daily calcium supplements. American adults are also using herbal herbal, early botanical book containing descriptions and illustrations of herbs and plants with their properties, chiefly those qualities that made them useful as medicines or condiments. Most of the herbals were written between c.1470 and c. and botanical bo·tan·i·cal also bo·tan·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to plants or plant life. 2. Of or relating to the science of botany. n. supplements more often. About 6 percent of adults in the U.S. use this type of supplement daily; 14.5 percent used an herbal or botanical supplement sometime in the past year. Millen AE, Dodd KW, Subar AF. 2004. Use of vitamin, mineral, nonvitamin, and nonmineral supplements in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. : The 1987, 1992, and 2000 National Health Interview Survey results. J Am Diet Assoc 104:942-50. |
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