ROCKPORT, Maine (MMD Newswire) March 1, 2010 -- Demystifying Dietary Supplements: Making Informed Choices by Maureen Giuffre, who is a registered nurse and recipient of a doctorate in nursing, argues that dietary supplements and herbal remedies can have very dangerous side effects and careful consideration should go into taking them.
"Americans spend billions on dietary supplements and herbal remedies, wasting their money and sometimes ruining their health," Giuffre says. She explains to readers what she believes is the duping of the American consumer done in the name of health. Demystifying Dietary Supplements seeks to give readers the tools to weigh the risks and benefits of products they might be interested in.
Written in everyday language, Giuffre strives to show the vast disparity in the regulations for pharmaceuticals versus those of supplements stating that manufacturers of dietary supplements and herbal remedies do not need to test their products before marketing. These remedies, Giuffre asserts, only come to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration when they have either harmed or killed people. She also points out that the use of supplements can often have disastrous results.
Written to be provocative and entertaining, Demystifying Dietary Supplements aims to show that taking these drugs can mean taking unnecessary chances with health.
Demystifying Dietary Supplements: Making Informed Choices is available for sale online at Amazon.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Maureen Giuffre was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Nurse Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her bachelor's degree with honors in nursing from the University of Connecticut, her master's degree in nursing from the University of Colorado and her doctorate in nursing from the University of Rochester. A former research editor for The Journal of PeriAnethesia Nursing and Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire, she now lives on the coast of Maine.
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E-mail: giuffre@roadrunner.com
Phone: (207) 594-1281
Web: www.makinginformedchoices.com
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