title: [Functional foods and drugs: from the clinical pint of view].
abstract: The Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan, has recently approved the functional foods for specific health uses. However, most of Japanese clinicians do not know what the "functional foods" are. From the clinical point of view, I will discuss the possible problems with the functional foods and compare their roles with those of foods and drugs.
authors.affiliation: International Medical Center of Japan, Shinjuku-ku, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akatsuka
mesh_terms: D058870:Food, Organic / Q000191:economics; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D011635:Public Health Administration