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Diet supplements are a new fade among Americans, how safe are they? Will anything herbal have actual side affects? All 100% natural, well so is tobacco plant or even cocaine. The economic and social influences in the pursuit for the prefect body are increasingly consuming the human mind causing the path to perfect “health” to be ridden with self inflicted disabilities. The health market is a dominant factor within society, the new advances in technology have created supposed wonder diet supplements. Companies producing dietary supplements do not need FDA (federal drug administration) approval thus it is hard to create a set of rules to make sure these supplements are useful. The law states that companies are required to make sure their own supplements are safe. Effectiveness is not covered under the law this is how advertising and companies, “lull us into fantasies of a consumer paradise where perfect happiness requires only purchasing the right exercise equipment and diet supplements”(Morris 97). The strategies of advertising force people to believe they are out of the “norm” this then makes people believe buying certain things will make them instantly better. Think of yourself or others that have bought exercise equ