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ADULTS THAT
CONSUME HEALTH
SUPPLEMENTS
Prepared by Nur Firdhaus
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INTRODUCTION
Background of Health Supplements
Known as dietary supplement, food supplements ornutritional supplements.
Intended to supplement the diet and provide nutrients, such
as vitamins, minerals, fiber, fatty acids, or amino acids.
Included as a category of food in the Codex Alimentarius, a
collection of internationally recognized standards.
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Term of Reference
This report is about health supplement.
The date when the report was requested was on the 15th January
2011.
The report was requested by Dr. Too Wei Keong.
The report was prepared by Nur Firdhaus bt Mohamad Alayuddin.
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Purpose and Scope
The purpose of this report is to investigate whether people do take
health supplement in their daily life.
Thirty respondents ranging from ages twenty years old and above
were selected for the survey.
Of the thirty respondents, twenty of them were females and ten were
males.
These respondents comprised of family and colleagues.
The survey was limited to Shah Alam and Putrajaya areas.
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Method
The background information was obtained from the internet source.
The report was based on adults that took health supplement in their
daily life.
The respondents were selected on an age basis ranging from twenty
years old and above.
The respondents were given questionnaires and were asked to
complete the questionnaires on the spot.
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Findings
Figure 1 shows the awareness of health supplement among 30 people
who took part in the survey. About 67% of female respondents
stated that they are aware of existence of health supplement.
Whereas, 33% of male respondents stated that they are also aware of
the existence of the health supplement product.
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Figure 2
Figure 2 is about people who are consuming health supplement in their
daily life. About 86% of female respondents consume health supplement
and only 14% of male respondents that consume health supplement. The four
respondents who did not consume health supplement are all male respondents.
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Figure 3 : Reasons for consuming Health Supplement
Figure 3 shows how many people are consuming health supplement because of health
and beauty or both. Most of them are taking health supplement because of health and
beauty. There are about 18 people that consume health supplement because of both
reasons. There are about 4 people that took health supplement because of health andonly 2 people who take it because of beauty. The remaining 6 respondents did not
consume any health supplement.
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Figure 4
Figure 4 shows the effect of taking health supplement in daily life. 67% people said
that after consuming health supplement on a daily basis, they found that their health had
improved tremendously. Therefore, they stated that consumption of health supplement
has made them felt very good. Another 33% of the respondents said that they felt good
after consuming health supplement. Overall, it can be concluded that consuming health
supplement will help improve health.
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CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that all of the respondents that took part in the survey, were
aware of the existence of health supplement.
Most of the respondents were consuming health supplement in their daily life.
Only a few did not consume health supplement.
Majority of the respondents consume health supplement for both reasons that
are beauty and health.
The remaining of the respondents either chose health or beauty as their reason.
Most of the respondents that took health supplement felt very good after
consuming it.
The rest of the respondent stated that they felt good after taking it.
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RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that everybody should consume health
supplement as part of their daily life because; it promote good blood circulation
helps to boost body immune system
improves health quality,
increase energy and vitality.
Most important of all it supplements what is lacking in the food
intakes.
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THE END