vitamin supplement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvitaminandsupplement
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vitamin
noun[C]
uk/ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/us/ˈvaɪ.t̬ə-/
any of a group of natural substances that are necessary in small amounts for the growth and good health of ...
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supplement
noun[C]
uk/ˈsʌp.lɪ.mənt/us/ˈsʌp.lə.mənt/
something that is added to something else in order to improve it or complete it; ...
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(Definition ofvitaminandsupplementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He just asked me a few questions, weighed me and gave me two sorts of pills, plus avitaminsupplementand a diet sheet.
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We are discussing avitaminsupplementthat has been taken regularly by, it is believed, up to 3 million people for many years, none of whom have died.
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It is much more difficult to define a health food, dietary supplement, orvitaminsupplementor something of that kind so that it can be excluded.
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The products are variously marketed to children, athletes, bodybuilders, dieters, or as avitaminsupplement.
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Two studies address vitamin supplements and trace elements in healthy older people.
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Many respondents gave very explicit details of their dietary likes and dislikes and stated that they wished dietary vitamin supplements or holistic diets.
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Medical history and examination, medication, smoking, alcohol and beverage intake and use of vitamin supplements were documented.
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Sometimes avitaminsupplementis needed when feeding low-quality hay, if a horse is under stress (illness, traveling, showing, racing, and so on), or not eating well.
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It will create the impression that vitamin supplements are really quite harmless after all.
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We believe that anyone who wants to buy mineral pills or vitamin supplements has the right to buy them, provided that they are safe.
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In 1980 a working party of the panel on child nutrition recommended that all women should receive vitamin supplements during pregnancy.
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The estimated cost of supplying vitamin supplements free would be about £½ million a year.
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Very many people believe that their lives literally depend on vitamin supplements.
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How will he feel when his surgery is clogged up with people asking for prescriptions for vitamin supplements?
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All sorts of deficiencies are put right by the use of vitamin supplements.
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Most of what has been said, and undoubtedly will be said in this debate, will concentrate on such things as vitamin supplements.
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I have no reason to think that the proposed charges for vitamin supplements will have adverse effects.
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That was, perhaps, inevitable, because the subject of these welfare food vitamin supplements is one about which there is a lot of feeling.
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Enzymes and biotechnological aids are covered by the word "substances"and"vitamin supplements"are covered by the word"food".
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