Title
Klinische betekenis van extra vitaminen uit supplementen en verrijkte voedingsmiddelen [Clinical importance of extra vitamins from supplements and enriched foodstuffs]
Author
Hermus, R.J.J.
Severs, A.H.
Centraal Instituut voor Voedingsonderzoek TNO
Publication year
1999
Abstract
-Consumers increasingly use vitamin supplements. Also, since June 1996, foodstuffs enriched with vitamins are available on the Dutch market. -These sources of extra vitamins may be useful for groups at risk for marginal vitamin deficiencies. -These risk groups include the chronically ill (e.g. diabetics), people using medicaments, older people and pregnant women. - Extra vitamins from low-dose supplements or enriched foodstuffs may also constitute a valuable and safe supplement to the diet of children, smokers, people eating unbalanced, people on slimming diets, vegetarians and people engaged in intensive sports. -According to the advisory group Nutrition of the Health Council, addition of vitamins to foodstuffs causes no risks of any importance for public health, apart from vitamins A and D and of the trace elements selenium, copper and zinc. Consequently, these should only be added to reconstituted foodstuffs or in a substitution product, not in enriched foodstuffs.
Subject
Nutrition
Copper
Retinol
Diabetes mellitus
Diet supplementation
Dose calculation
Elderly care
High risk patient
Human cell
Human tissue
Review
Vitamin intake
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Avitaminosis
Child
Child, Preschool
Copper
Dietary Supplements
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Netherlands
Nutrition Policy
Nutritional Requirements
Pregnancy
Selenium
Vitamin A
Vitamin D
Zinc
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TNO identifier
235008
ISSN
0028-2162
Source
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 143 (17), 889-893
Document type
article