Being an athletic person means having to take extra measures in taking care of your body. Especially if you’re a professional athlete. It takes a lot of work to ensure that your body is getting all the necessary requirements to become the best version possible. Some athletes even hire their own personal trainer to help them with their training, creating an everyday routine to achieve the best results for preparation before their competition.
You wake up early in the morning, maybe do a few rounds around your block to stay fit. One might even invest in gym equipment to maximize their body’s full potential. Having the proper diet and eating right is a must to make sure your body is receiving all the nutrients it needs to perform properly. In addition to this, some search for the best products and supplements from well-known nutrition brands to step up their game.
However, some brands may be making some false promises just to be able to make some sales and profit, regardless of what its effects on its consumers may be. They can be claiming to have a specific ingredient in their product that swears to help athletes and provide even more nutrition. Even when there’s none of it in the product itself. Even worse, they can be including some ingredients that can possibly cause harmful effects to their consumers, such as allergic reactions and other negative side effects, and not include those ingredients in the packaging or description to at least give a heads up to whoever will buy their products. Here are some types of nutrition misinformation to look out for.
Types of Nutrition Misinformation
Food Fads and Fad Diets
These are unusual diets and eating patterns, promoting short-term weight loss, with no concern and consideration for long-term weight maintenance or overall health. Often trendy and maybe popular for short periods of time, these have no scientific basis and promote ideas that consuming or not consuming some products, or even combining certain ones, will help one lose weight or prevent/cure a disease.
Health Fraud
Health fraud is intentionally misleading that includes products or diets that have no scientific basis, yet are still promoted for good health and well-being. Some products may make promises such as “fast, quick, and easy weight loss,”. Or a “miracle, cure-all product” without really having the ability to do so.
Misdirected Health Claims
Misguided statements can be made by producers, making consumers believe that a product is healthier than actually the case. These may include products that are low in fat or low in carbohydrates, yet still high in calories.
Personal Injury Lawyer and Tort Law
If you find yourself, unfortunately, intaking a harmful product and becoming a victim of one or more of the previously stated nutrition misinformation, you still can do something about it. Nutritional brands are indeed liable when you, as their consumer, somehow got sick because of it.
Consider hiring your personal injury lawyer. If that sounds unfamiliar to you, then you might be wondering, what does a personal injury lawyer do? Well, a personal injury lawyer is a type of civil litigator. They provide legal representation to plaintiffs who are claiming physical or psychological injury, resulting from the negligent or careless acts of another person, entity, or organization.
Personal injury lawyers have licenses to practice in all facets of law. However, they usually handle cases falling within tort law, covering private or civil wrongs or injuries. This includes defamation and actions for bad faith breach of contract. The main goal of tort law is to make the injured party whole again. As well as to discourage others from committing the same offense.
Personal injury lawyers’ job is to help plaintiffs receive compensation for their losses. It includes loss of earning capacity due to an inability to work, pain and suffering, reasonable medical expenses, both present and expected, as well as emotional distress, loss of companionship or consortium, and attorney fees and legal costs. Also, they work to safeguard clients from being victimized by insurance companies and the legal system.
How to Make Sure the Nutritional Brand is Reliable
You might be wondering what you should look out and look for when purchasing nutritional products and supplements. These are some ways to make sure that the nutritional brand you are choosing is safe and to be trusted.
Buy from a reputable source.
Since supplements aren’t regulated, many companies do not go through the hassle of quality control. Ensuring the label matches the product and that the ingredients in the bottle are pure isn’t certain. Consider purchasing from large national brands. They are better at this than small, one-off companies because they can afford quality control measures.
Look for a third-party verification on the product.
Many supplements are certified by either the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention or NSF International. These are third-party organizations that conduct testing on supplements, determining if what is on the label is actually in the bottle. They also ensure that the product does not contain high levels of contaminants, such as heavy metals. Credentials should be seen on a supplements label. However, it is expensive and not all companies can afford the analysis.
Look for third-party verification online.
Some third-party websites create and provide analysis of supplements. Some examples of these websites are Labdoor.com and Consumerlabs.com. These websites publish lists of the highest quality supplements you can choose from.
Buy organic herbal supplements.
Numerous herbal supplements will not have third party verification. To ensure that harmful pesticides are not included in the supplement, buy organic herbal supplements to ensure that their level of contamination is lowest. A lot of credible companies provide information on where their herbs are sourced from and are proud to share with their consumers. Also, purchasing from large, popular brands increases the likelihood that the supplement contains the appropriate amount of the active ingredient.
Choose single-ingredient supplements.
Supplements that contain a single ingredient are less likely to have high levels of contamination and more likely to contain the amount of the ingredient advertised on the label. Companies selling “proprietary blends” should be avoided because they do not have to report any ingredient amounts on their labels.
Although eating a variety of healthy foods is the best way to get the nutrients you need, some people don’t get enough vitamins and minerals from their daily diet. Their doctors may recommend dietary supplements that may provide nutrients missing from your daily diet.
However, always keep in mind to be careful.
Irresponsible and unethical marketing made by opportunistic companies can fool buyers into purchasing these brands’ products. You must be aware of which products are reliable and to be trusted, and which ones aren’t. It is better to be untrusting of unfamiliar brands than regret being open to them later on.
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