As the university and secondary school entrance examination season is less than four months away, more and more parents are staking their children's good mark on brain tonics.
One mother told me that her daughter would take part in the entrance examination for secondary school. Other parents all bought nutrients for their children, so she had to also buy a brain tonic called "fish oil" for her daughter. After a month, it had no effect. "It is only a placebo, but at least the tonic is not harmful," she added.
A junior secondary school student said that they all dislike taking these tonics and do so only as a duty.
According to nutritionists, people cannot learn the clear components and the effect of the various tonics in the market, so they can only be regarded as common commodities but not medicines.
(CIIC by Feng Yikun 04/02/2001)
