What role do dietary supplements play in daily life? TEE SHIAO EEK talks to the scion of the man believed to have created and marketed the first multivitamin/multimineral food supplement in the US.
In 1915, an American businessman went east to China. Enamoured with the Chinese culture, he lived there for 12 years, travelling extensively around the country. He learnt the language, studied the philosophy and observed the dietary practices of rural and urban Chinese people.
