Tag Archive | "contaminated dietary supplements"

Kombucha Tea: Healthy or Harmful?

February 8, 2010 9 comments

Health trends come and go. The latest, raw organic Kombucha Tea. The tea is produced by adding yeast and bacteria, along with sugar, to black tea and allowing it to ferment over a week. So is it safe to assume that anything worthy of being sold at Whole Foods must be good for you? And what exactly [...]

Beware of Contaminated Dietary Supplements

November 14, 2009 1 comment

Carissa Anderson,
Elite Nutrition Intern
According to a recent survey more than half of the American population takes supplements of some sort.  Because there have been alarming reports of unsafe or ‘contaminated’ dietary supplements, I think it is important to shed some light on the topic.  Many supplements slip through the cracks and are not regulated by [...]


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