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KMID : 1024720150050020035
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Geriatric Rehabilitation
2015 Volume.5 No. 2 p.35 ~ p.39
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Vitamin, Health Functional Food, Detox
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Oh Han-Jin
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Abstract
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A product intended for use to enhance and preserve the human health with one or more functional ingredients or constituents was defined as the "Health Functional Foods (HFF)". The HFF products approved by KFDA under the Health Functional Foods Act can be labelled with certain health claims with the symbol of "HFF". Health claims are currently categorized as follows, Nutrient function Claims, Other function claims, and Disease risk claim. Main reason to consume HFF is improve health function. And others are disease prevention, nutrients supplementation. In some case, If ingestion of nutrients (Caloric or functional) are not proper, supplements with HFF are much needed. Medical foods are one of HFF in America, used for patients only by prescription. But in Korea Medical foods are not available now. Detoxifications (Detox) are process to excretion toxic materials out of body, main organs for detox are Liver, Skin, Kidney, and Bowl. Everyone have to know what nutrients are needed and how to supplement, if they should have wrong health habits like irregular meals, fast foods, do not exercise, sleepless lifestyles. Especially elderly person have decreased physical function due to they have decreased bowl movement, lack of physical activity, and decreased chewing power. Even though if they are doing rehabilitation process, supplementation of nutrients are needed.
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KEYWORD
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Health functional food, Medical food, Detox
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