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1. Since they are all supplements, why should we divide medicines and health foods?

2. How to distinguish between health food and medicine?

1. Use for different purposes.

Let's start with the definition of occupation.

Drugs are used to prevent, treat and diagnose human diseases, purposefully regulate human physiological functions, and specify indications or functional indications, usage and dosage.

Health food is used to regulate the body's function, improve the body's disease resistance, improve the sub-health state and reduce the risk of illness, not to prevent and treat diseases.

Simply put, drugs are used to treat and prevent diseases (such as preventing rickets caused by calcium deficiency);

Health food is used to improve the quality of life and health.

Does it feel a little abstract?

Let me give you an example:

Generally speaking, if a person's general health condition is 0, then the purpose of medicine is to correct you from-1 and -2 to 0.

The purpose of health food is to raise you from 0 to 1 2.

For example, after eating health food, our physique and immunity are improved, so the risk of getting sick is small. Others are too cold to go out in winter, so you can go surfing.

Just after giving birth to a baby, eating some health care products can quickly restore physical strength, and partying and shopping are the same;

I have been staying up late recently, and my skin is not good. Eating some health care products to improve the skin condition feels beautiful. I'm not afraid to meet netizens.

Dogs think that buying health care products is just like buying Armani foundation and LV bag, both of which are to let you go surfing better!

2. Different applicable groups

Medicine: Generally speaking, it is a sick person. For calcium supplementation, it is the people who have been diagnosed with calcium deficiency.

Health food: a specific group of people who meet the corresponding functions.

Well, when it comes to health food, you must be too abstract again. Let me explain to you, who are these people?

There is no guarantee that the diet is reasonable every day.

When the wallet was swollen, Manchu served at the banquet, and there was no food for the last meal after returning to the flowers, and the diet was irregular;

The new braised chicken downstairs is so delicious that it can be eaten for a month and has a single diet.

In order to lose weight, the diet quality of pickles porridge is poor. In the long run, these people can consider supplementing nutrition.

For example, when going out for a meeting or traveling, if you eat less grains and don't have enough B vitamins, take a compound B vitamin.

For a period of time, because of busy, vegetables and fruits are insufficient, then eat one or two tablets of vitamin C;

Eat less green leafy vegetables, milk and soy products and eat calcium tablets.

② Partial eclipse

What should I do with a partial eclipse?

If it's a child, just have a meal, if it's an adult.

I lied to you! Like Big S, she was a vegetarian until she got married, which may cause her to lack some nutrition.

For example, vitamin B 12 mostly exists in animal foods such as meat, eggs and milk, and vegetarians can appropriately supplement some vitamin B12;

For example, some straight men think eating vegetables and fruits is too girly, and eating meat is what men should do. You can buy them some vitamins.

③ People under special conditions.

Don't think that working in a 5A office building is very advanced. At this moment, you are no different from the woman worker who stood on the sewing machine in the factory 30 years ago. At that time, they made clothes. At this time, you do PPT.

Are you wearing it? There are more thorns. You often face the computer and your eyes are dry and swollen. When you rub your eyes, the farmers in the field are enjoying the beauty of nature with their bright eyes.

Why? Because your consumption of vitamin A is different, people who overuse their eyes can supplement this kind of health food appropriately.

④ Special physiological period

These people need a lot of nutrition, but the nutrition they get from food can't be fully satisfied because they absorb less, consume more or lose too much.

But dogs should also remind you that although we have health food as an aid, we can make up for the deficiency in a short time, but we must not be a substitute for healthy eating and habits.

Everyone still needs to eat well and work regularly.

3. Can medicines and health foods be eaten for a long time?

Health food: According to the national regulations, health food should not have any toxic side effects, and should not cause any acute or chronic harm to human body. Can be eaten for a long time.

Drugs: Drugs generally have toxic and side effects; Don't eat for a long time (if you want to eat for a long time, please consult a doctor).

After hearing what you said, I think it's safer to eat health food.

Stop. Health food can never replace medicine!

There is an elder in the dog family who has high blood pressure. She thinks that taking antihypertensive drugs for a long time will have side effects, and health food is helpful to the condition without any adverse reactions, so she simply takes health care products.

All wet!

If we compare lowering blood pressure to cracking down on thieves, health food only plays the role of security guard and plays an auxiliary role. It is impossible to lower blood pressure only by eating health food.

And drugs are really effective for diseases.

Of course, you can eat some health food while taking medicine, but remember, you can't pretend to be the master.

This also answers the question at the beginning:

If your child is diagnosed with calcium deficiency, you should take medicine supplements.

If the child is not calcium-deficient, and the intake of calcium in the diet is very small, you can choose long-term supplement of health calcium to reduce the risk of calcium deficiency.

So can drugs replace health food? For example, can I buy calcium supplements as health food for a long time?

Not even!

It's okay. Don't take medicine indiscriminately. Everything is in accordance with the doctor's advice.

From the purpose of medication, there are permissible toxic and side effects, so drugs must not be regarded as health food.

Here is another typical example: dimension C in 1 yuan and dimension C in 99 yuan.

Many big V's in the official WeChat account say that the price difference in 98 yuan is IQ tax, so it is better to buy 1 yuan to supplement VC.

Many people were moved by China after hearing this, and tears filled their eyes. Since then, they have been regarded as good words.

Go to the drugstore to buy VC, in order to avoid the salesman chattering: "1 yuan poison", directly:

To supplement VC, it is better to buy 1 yuan. " There is nothing wrong with this sentence, but the dog should remind you that this is a prerequisite.

When you are diagnosed with VC deficiency, you can buy 1 yuan, for example, VC deficiency leads to gingival bleeding.

If not, don't eat it indiscriminately, and you can't eat it as a health product for a long time.

A new problem has arisen here. Since they are all VC, why is there such a big difference between the prices of medicines and health food?

4. Why is health food more expensive than medicine?

The state has price control on drugs, but not on health food (don't complain, there is no way)

② The active ingredients of some health foods are naturally extracted, and the production cost will be higher than that of some synthetic drugs.

Is that understandable? Think about it, are the leather shoes you bought much more expensive than those made of artificial leather?

③ Ordinary vitamin pills have no advertising and marketing investment like health food, so the cost is relatively low.