Advantages of food supplements: 

1. These products help to improve performance, especially weight training and sports performance. 

2. Food supplements help to overcome deficient nutrients, thus fulfill the body needs. 

3. These products are easily available from medical stores. 

Disadvantages of Food supplements: 

1. The products are more expensive than natural food; moreover, they have less nutritional value than fresh fruits and vegetables. 

2. Prolonged usage and excessive taking of these food supplements is often harmful for body and develop unknown and unexpected risk over health of individual. 

3. These products require many instructions for their usage which are difficult to be followed properly. 

4. Food supplements may provide benefit but researches on this prove that they are less healthy than natural diet or food. Thus, balanced diet is the best food. 

5. These dietary supplements pose adverse side effects over health or individual. 

6. Most of these products are synthetic or chemicals, however, long usage of these food supplements may cause cancer.