Talk:Food supplements

I am going to revert the removal of "essential" from glyconutrients. There are over 200 glyconutrients, and of those, only 8 are essential - much as we recognise the "essential" amino acids. BrianWalker 16:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I have removed the "essential" from glyconutrients, since it was unsourced. I have also removed the "reference", since it was linked to a vendor website (glycoscience.org is owned by Mannatech, a vendor, as per the Whois lookup). Ante  lan  talk  21:13, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It may be owned by them (is it??) but the evidence presented is solid, peer reviewed and worthy of examination. I would suggest you take a closer look and see if you might want to revert the reversion, but I leave it up to you. BrianWalker 14:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, if you do a whois lookup on the domain, you will see that it is owned by Mannatech. The articles on the site are not from peer-reviewed journals, but instead are publications by Mannatech associates. Ante  lan  talk  04:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Quoting now verbatim from that site I read one example among many:

John Stewart Axford, DSc, MD, FRCP

Professor Axford obtained his undergraduate medical degrees, MB (Bachelor of Medicine) and BS (Bachelor of Surgery), from University College, London. During this time he received a number of awards for academic excellence. Following his undergraduate training, Prof. Axford spent two years in medical research in the U.K. and Kenya followed by a series of appointments in clinical medicine at hospitals in the U.K. In 1989, Prof. Axford was chosen to be a Fulbright Scholar and spent the next year carrying out immunology research at Tuft’s University in Boston. Upon finishing his stay in the U.S., he completed his research thesis in arthritic diseases and was awarded his MD in 1990 and his Specialist Accreditation in Rheumatology & Immunology in 1991. Since 1990, Prof. Axford has been a member of the Faculty at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, first as Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, and later as a Consultant and Reader in Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology; In October 2005, he became the Chair of Clinical Rheumatology. Prof. Axford was awarded his FRCP (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians) in 1995.

Prof. Axford serves on the editorial boards of six medical journals and on numerous medical and health related committees. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Mannatech, Inc. He is a past-President of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Clinical Immunology & Allergy. Prof. Axford has authored/co-authored over 74 peer-reviewed scientific papers and over 120 abstracts and letters, and edited/authored over 18 books, two of which are best-sellers. He is actively involved with research in rheumatology and is especially interested in the glycobiology of arthritic diseases. Prof. Axford has lectured extensively throughout the U.S., the U.K., Europe, Australia and Asia. He chaired the 2004 Royal Society of Medicine Conference, Glycobiology and Medicine symposium held at Exeter College, Oxford, where approximately two hundred experts from throughout the world discussed the biological activity of carbohydrates and their relationship with health and disease.

This is one of the bios from that site, and I would suggest that he, like many others of his ilk, is eminently suited to be able to provide scientifically valid, peer-reviewed studies to back up claims made. What do you have against such studies? BrianWalker 04:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * In the scientific literature (all peer-reviewed journals), conflicts of interest are reported for a reason. Also, it is not clear that we are operating under the same definition of peer review. -- Ante lan  talk  20:18, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

This article should be renamed 'food fortification'
From reading this article, it appears to me that its subject matter is partly concerned with food fortification and partly concerned with food supplements. In the case of the latter, there is already a Wikipedia article dealing with this subject; see: dietary supplement. As such, I propose that the material dealing with food supplements should either be deleted from this article or merged into the dietary supplement article, after which the article should be retitled 'food fortification'. Vitaminman 13:11, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I have now added a formal merge proposal to the article's header. Vitaminman 12:46, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. You're right - this topic should be merged with dietary supplement. No article with this title need exist, but as you have also mentioned, we should have a 'food fortification' article. Thanks for thinking about this. Ante  lan  talk  16:59, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

As has been mentioned elsewhere, the term food fortification is 'leading the witness'; an additive may or may not be a fortification.

At present, there are so many similar/related articles that one is easily confused. Some need to be combined, and the discussion of this needs to be all at one place; where's that?

We have, at least, Food supplements, Food additive, Food fortification, Dietary supplement, Food processing, Nutraceutical, and Nutrification (aka food enrichment). Surely some of these can disappear, and the small amounts of unique information can be moved to the remaining articles. --Hordaland (talk) 21:11, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Concerning your point that there are so many similar/related articles in this area on Wikipedia, and that some need to be combined, I fully agree. As for where the discussion needs to take place, I would say that to begin with a note to this effect needs to be placed on the talk pages of all relevant articles.Vitaminman (talk) 09:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

At WikiProject Food and Drink I've started the thread Food additives etc. ==> need merging. in hopes that some of the pages:
 * Food supplements,
 * Food additive,
 * Food fortification,
 * Dietary supplement,
 * Food processing,
 * Bodybuilding supplement,
 * Nutraceutical, and
 * Nutrification (aka food enrichment)

can be merged/eliminated. I hope that that thread will be a central place to discuss this somewhat messy situation. I'll be adding this comment to each of the articles' Talk pages. --Hordaland (talk) 11:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You have my support here, which I have also now voiced on the Food and Drink page.Vitaminman (talk) 09:20, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

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