Medical insurers know that usage of certain supplements leads to reduced disease and, as a result, lower insurance claims.

So, forward thinking insurers offer rebates or reimbursements to encourage policy holders to use supplements.

This statement was lifted from an Amway circular to distributors. "We are in the very fortunate position that in SA medical aids are willing to pay for nutritional supplements...This is unique to SA."

The GreenWorld company in a similar circular says supplement consumers may "claim back the money they pay for their products by submitting a claim to their respective medical aids providers such as Discovery Health, or anyone of the many other key medical aids providers in South Africa."

Amway further says "the medical aid will require a certified receipt obtainable only from the patient's doctor, dentist or pharmacist proving that they have bought the supplement for the medical practitioner in question."

Does this not mean that supplements are available free to medical aids policy holders?

Regards, Joe