Notwithstanding the recent rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) empowering it to ban dietary supplements arbitrary, the nutritional supplement industry is booming. With more and more fitness and health enthusiasts flocking for dietary enhancement products such as protein powder, vitamins, creatine and fat burners, the sales graphs of these companies closely touched the $17 billion mark in 2000 itself. And with many nutrition supplement companies like Muscle Tech, Optimum Nutrition, Action Labs, Bodyonics (Pinnacle), Pro Tan, Universal and others to choose from, how do you know which one is the best?

News headlines every time read of dietary supplements being passed off as optimum nutrition products or protein powder being tested that don't meet label claim or are contaminated.

Though the FDA has proposed GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) for nutrition supplement companies directing them to assure product quality, a regulation is yet to be passed officially. In such a situation you may only question the supplement companies regarding their production process and raw materials before you start using any of their products.

Take the instance of Muscle Tech, manufacturer of popular products such as Hydroxycut™, Cell Tech creatine, Nitro Tech and others that help burn fats and lose weights. Despite the fact that Hydroxycut™ has been the most popular fat burner for years, the company recently improved upon its formulae. The reason is that the FDA had recently banned ephedra and the company took off this main fat burning ingredient from the product to comply with the rules. Muscle Tech has followed the rules, but only time will tell how many others will follow their example!

Choosing the true optimum nutrition products, protein powder or the supplement company is not enough in itself. With supplements being readily available online, you also need to evaluate whether the web site marketing the products is genuine and deliver the right information. There are some very reputed web sites on the Internet as there are phony ones that provide misleading or outdated information. Unlike the product reviews in medical journals, most web sites do not provide any quality or up-to-date information on products they are marketing. Instead, they offer some casual suggestions that may often prove to be detrimental.

So, next time when you order a vitamin or a protein powder based on information provided by a web site, it is advisable that you pursue the following guidelines. As even great information found in a web site may be misleading, don’t blindly believe what the web site has to say. Instead, ask the subsequent questions:

· Who developed the information and what are their credentials?
· Who do they work for? Is there a sponsor of the web site and who are they?
· Where did the information come from and what are the references or sources?
· Are there references to reputable medical journals or is the information one sided?
· Is the information up to date and unbiased?
· Is the purpose to promote a product or to sell a product?

Hope the above strategy will help you to select the right nutrition supplement from the right company and through the right source!

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