The Defense Department should create a testing program under which U.S. forces in war zones can have personal performance-enhancing dietary supplements bought from local vendors checked for poison, according to a recent report by a DOD advisory panel. "A broad range of nutritional supplements advertised to have some performance-enhancing effect is reportedly used by soldiers on their own initiative," the March 2008 report reads, referencing a Pentagon study conducted with officials from Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. The...
