Too good to be true

“100% safe!”

People often think about the benefits of nutrition interventions and ignore possible harms. But nutrition interventions are not always 100% safe.

People often don’t think about the harmful effects that nutrition interventions can have. For example, people often don’t think about the harmful effects of nutrition supplements, but many have side effects – unintended effects that are harmful or unpleasant.
Sometimes people don’t think about the possible harmful effects of foods, drinks, diets and nutrition supplements because they are sick. They hope that a nutrition intervention will help and they ignore that it might be harmful.
BEWARE when someone says that a nutrition intervention is “100% safe” or does not say anything about its safety.
REMEMBER: Nutrition interventions can be harmful.