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health supplements

Portuguese translation: Suplementos nutricionais

00:08 Mar 2, 2011
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care / Supplements
English term or phrase: health supplements
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the public has 30,000 ***health supplements*** available to them on the market, representing a multibillion dollar industry. Indeed, more than 150 million Americans take some form of health supplement each year. Sadly, people are not only looking for health in all the wrong places, they’re wasting a small fortune along the way.

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Minha dúvida é: há diferença entre "suplementos nutricionais", "suplementos dietéticos" e "suplementos alimentares"?
Seriam todos esses "suplementos de saúde"?!?
Agradeço a ajuda!
Hander Heim
Brazil
Local time: 03:24
Portuguese translation:Suplementos nutricionais
Explanation:
Creio que este termo englobe os outros que você menciona.


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Michelle de Abreu Aio
Brazil
Local time: 03:24
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6Suplementos nutricionais
Michelle de Abreu Aio
5Suplementos alimentares
Vitor Machado
4suplementos alimentares
Leonor Machado
Summary of reference entries provided
Verbete "Health Supplement" na Wikipedia
Paulo Marcon

  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
Suplementos nutricionais


Explanation:
Creio que este termo englobe os outros que você menciona.


Abs!

Michelle de Abreu Aio
Brazil
Local time: 03:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti: tb acho
20 mins
  -> Obrigada!
agree  Paulo Marcon: Idem. A Wikipedia também: "...A dietary supplement, also known as food supplement or nutritional supplement, is a preparation intended to supplement the diet and provide nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals..." V. entrada de referência.
47 mins
  -> Obrigada!
agree  Marlene Curtis
1 hr
  -> Obrigada!
agree  Fátima Aparecida de Oliveira Abbate
14 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Fátima!
agree  imatahan
1 day 1 hr
  -> Obrigada, Isabel!
agree  Silvia Aquino
3 days 1 hr
  -> Obrigada, Silvia!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
suplementos alimentares


Explanation:
Definitivamente é esta a expressão mais utilizada

http://www.google.pt/#sclient=psy&hl=pt-PT&rlz=1R2GFRE_pt-PT...

Leonor Machado
Local time: 07:24
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 38
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12 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Suplementos alimentares


Explanation:
Embora os dois termos estejam corretos, se você fizer uma consulta em corpus de português, como http://corpusbrasileiro.pucsp.br/x/index.php?w=suplementos a... perceberá que a ocorrência de "suplementos alimentares" é muito mais recorrente que "suplementos nutricionais.

Você acerta com os dois, mas acho suplementos alimentares mais eufônico.

Vitor Machado
Brazil
Local time: 03:24
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference: Verbete "Health Supplement" na Wikipedia

Reference information:
"...A dietary supplement, also known as food supplement or nutritional supplement, is a preparation intended to supplement the diet and provide nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals..."


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_supplement
Paulo Marcon
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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