Dietary supplements received a big push from medical industry professionals as part of an important suggestion to healthcare reform in the U.S. William Cooper, M.D., director of Wellstar-Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Ga., agreed that taking dietary supplements could help improve an individual’s overall health. Dr. Cooper is not only an advocate of taking dietary supplements, but he also practices what he preaches with his own regimen of fish oil, fiber and a multi-vitamin.

Healthcare reform was a hot topic in the nation’s last presidential election campaign and continues to be in the hot seat for the Obama Administration. Opinions have been flying across the airwaves on how to mend a system that has been ignored with no resolution in sight.

“Healthcare reform will happen in this country when you and I change our habits to be healthier,” said Dr. Cooper.

His idea of healthcare reform starting with the people who use it has been echoed across the nation. Dietary supplements are now getting more recognition and attention from professionals who’ve come from an industry that often shunned the use of them in the past. A survey performed in 2008 by Life…supplemented.™ ,a Healthcare Professionals (HCP) Impact Study revealed the top five reasons 79% of the physician prescribed dietary supplements to their patients:

Among the attendees of the caucus event was co-chair, Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO). “Prevention is the most cost-effective initiative to contain costs in healthcare and dietary supplements are an important part of prevention,” said Rep. Polis. A new healthcare and dietary supplement industry alliance may be on the horizon. g

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