Articles by Shari Barbanel
Natural Products Expo West Will Not Be Rescheduled
After consulting with key partners within the natural products community, New Hope Network announced on March 13 that it has decided that, due to the developing circumstances around the COVID-19 virus, it will not move forward with hosting a rescheduled Natural Products Expo West event in Anaheim, CA in 2020. The Expo West trade show ...
Marc Grossman, OD, LAc
Marc Grossman, OD, LAc, is a leading holistic optometrist in practice since 1980. Internationally respected, he has taught many hundreds of practitioners and physicians in his methods. An influential pioneer, practitioner and teacher in natural and integrative eye care, Grossman is in the forefront of the holistic vision care movement and the mind-body connection. His ...
Country Life Natural Food Store and Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant
Volunteering for Health Country Life Natural Food Store and Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant (Columbus, GA) In October 2019, Country Life Natural Food Store and Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant celebrated a major milestone—50 years of serving the people of Columbus, GA. In the mid-1960s, Drs. Calvin and Agatha Thrash were dissatisfied with the results they were seeing in their practice, ...
Non-GMO: What Does the Future Hold?
The Participants Are: Ramona Billingslea Marketing Manager Betsy’s Health Food Two stores in Houston, TX www.betsyhealth.com Linda Kahler President Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems Santa Cruz, CA www.rainbowlight.com Neil E. Levin, CCN, DANLA Nutrition Education Manager NOW Foods Bloomingdale, IL (800) 999-8069 Missy Lowery Senior Manager, Marketing Capsugel Greenwood, SC (888) 783-6361 Joar Opheim CEO & ...
Non-GMOs: What Does the Future Hold?
The Participants Are: Ramona Billingslea Marketing Manager Betsy’s Health Food Two stores in Houston, TX www.betsyhealth.com Linda Kahler President Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems Santa Cruz, CA www.rainbowlight.com Neil E. Levin, CCN, DANLA Nutrition Education Manager NOW Foods Bloomingdale, IL (800) 999-8069 Missy Lowery Senior Manager, Marketing Capsugel Greenwood, SC (888) 783-6361 Joar Opheim CEO & ...
High Family Stress Can Impact Child’s Immune System
High family stress can lead to the child’s immune system being affected, as a research group at the School of Health Sciences at Jönköping University and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Linköping University in Sweden shows in a study being published in the American periodical Journal of Immunology. Our immune system has the task ...
Stop Stressing and Relax
With stress and anxiety on the rise, consumers are turning toward the natural sector to help them relax. To say that Americans are stressed out is putting it mildly. According to research from the American Institute of Stress (AIS) and the American Psychological Association (APA), in 2014, 77 percent of people regularly experience physical symptoms ...
Thriving in a Big-box World
In the age of the big-box store, independent natural products retailers weigh in on how their stores grow and change to stay in the game. With stores like Whole Foods opening up all over the country and superstores like Walmart and Target focused on the natural health game, independent natural products retailers adapt to not ...
Thriving in a Big-Box World
With competitors such as Whole Foods and big-box retailers like Walmart and Costco hitting home runs in the supplement sales game, independent natural products retailers continue to step up to the plate to stay relevant. Vitamin Retailer (VR) asked independent natural products retailers to weigh in on the changing industry, and how they not only ...
VRM Media Acquires “Fitness Trainer” Magazine
VRM Media (East Brunswick, NJ, www.vrmmedia.com), a leading provider of business magazines, websites and e-newsletters for the health and natural products industry, has announced its acquisition of Fitness Trainer magazine from the Mallarina Sales Corporation. Fitness Trainer (fitnesstrainermag.uberflip.com/t/47105), founded in 2012 by Robert B. Rose, is a digital business magazine for personal trainers and other ...
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