Some thoughts
The Food Supplements Directive requires that supplements be demonstrated to be safe, both in quantity and quality. Some vitamins are essential in small quantities but dangerous in large quantities. Some herbal remedies, notably St Johns Wort, may interact with drugs or render them less effective. Such an issue has been raised in the case of oral contraceptives. Consequently, only those supplements that have been proven to be safe may be sold without prescription. In practice, the number of reported incidents with food supplements is nevertheless low. Since the Industrial Revolution some two hundred years ago, the food processing industry has invented many technologies that both help keep foods fresh longer and alter the fresh state of food as they appear in nature. Cooling is the primary technology that can help maintain freshness, whereas many more technologies have been invented to allow foods to last longer without becoming spoiled. These latter technologies include pasteurisation, autoclavation, drying, salting, and separation of various components, and all appear to alter the original nutritional contents of food. Pasteurisation and autoclavation (heating techniques) have no doubt improved the safety of many common foods, preventing epidemics of bacterial infection. But some of the (new) food processing technologies undoubtedly have downfalls as well.
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[...] Being overweight is definitely dangerous when your weight exceeds a certain level of the body mass index. Nevertheless the procedures used to lose weight may be risky as well. Herbal diet supplements and especially diet pill side effects can generate uneasiness in addition to being dangerous. Just for the reason that a product is labeled as herbal does not indicate it is safe. [...]