A new research has revealed that consuming dietary supplements does not promise good health.

Wen-Bin Chiou of National Sun Yat-Sen University decided to examine if regular utilization of dietary supplements had ironic consequences for subsequent health linked behaviours after detecting a fellow worker selected an unhealthful meal over an organic meal simply because the fellow worker had consumed a multivitamin earlier in the day.

Chiou stated, "After reviewing the literature of the prevalence of dietary supplement use, it seemed to show that use of dietary supplements is increasing, but it does not appear to be correlated with improved public health."

Chiou carried out the research together with Tourism and Chin-Sheng Wan of Southern Taiwan University plus Chao-Chin Yang of National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality.

Two different trials were carried out utilizing a varied set of behavioral measures to find out whether the usage of dietary supplements would license subsequent health-linked conducts.

Partakers under Group A were asked to take a multivitamin and partakers in the control group were asked to have a placebo.

The outcomes from the experimentations and review established that partakers who thought they had taken dietary supplements felt safe to risks, thus leading them to take part in health-risk behaviors.

Especially, partakers in the perceived supplement use group showed less craving to take part in work out and more desire to participate in hedonic activities, favored a buffet over an organic meal and walked less to do good to their physical condition as compared to the control group.

The outcomes of the study were released in Psychological Science.