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A 360-degree Approach to Weight Management With Natural Ingredients
Are you overweight or obese? If so, you’re not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. obesity prevalence is 41.9 percent.1 But what constitutes obesity? The CDC indicates that an adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight, while an adult who has a BMI ...
Optimizing The Store Experience
Any retailer can relate to the idea of their store being not just a physical space of bricks and mortar, but an experience. From a customer’s point of view, it’s this experience—the appearance, attitude, selection, and overall feeling that they get—that will keep them coming back. But I think it can also be easy to ...
30 People Who Shaped the Natural Products Industry
In commemoration of Vitamin Retailer magazine’s 30th anniversary, we assembled a list of 30 people who shaped, built and defended the natural products industry over the last 30 years. The year 2024 is also the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. For every person we ...
30 Year Review 1994-2024
Vitamin Retailer’s 30 Years Of News The dietary supplement industry has gone through many changes since Vitamin Retailer’s (VR) debut in 1994. In honor of the magazine’s 30th anniversary, we looked back at some of the industry’s major milestones, and reflect on the impact, challenges and evolution of the dietary supplement and natural products industry ...
30 Noteworthy Retailers
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine honors 30 brick-and-mortar natural product retailers—single and multi-store—that exemplify the characteristics of professionalism, service and expertise. Choosing only 30 stores was difficult. VR magazine appreciates the hard work of the many retail staff members and stores around the country that meet the needs of their communities ...
30 Trailblazing Products
To commemorate Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine’s 30th anniversary, the VR staff wanted to highlight 30 of some of the most outstanding products in the natural products industry. All of the featured items have made their mark to become some of the top-selling and most popular vitamin and supplement products. Barlean’s Swirls Formerly called Barlean’s Omega-3 ...
Green Environs May Boost Cognitive Function
Abundant plant life may have a protective effect on cognition, a study finds. Cognitive function at middle age is a strong predictor of whether a person may develop dementia later in life. A 2022 study published in JAMA Open Network led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher has found that increasing ...
Talking Metabolic Health With Cheryl Myers and Jay Levy
Vitamin Retailer reached out to Cheryl Myers, Chief of Scientific Affairs and Education for Green Bay, Wisconsin-based EuroPharma and to Jay Levy, Director of Sales for Mission Viejo, California-based Wakunaga of America, for their insights about the blood-glucose and metabolic support products and ingredients, and here’s what they had to say: VR: What are your ...
Stay In the Game Longer! 6 Supplements for Endurance and Rapid Recovery
For most of us, life is a balancing act. In a perfect world, we’d all have time during our day to devote to our health. But in the real world, 24 hours a day doesn’t seem like nearly enough time to fit in work, school, family and the plethora of responsibilities that life throws at ...
Synergism Among Nutraceuticals: Black Seed Oil, Omega-3, Astaxanthin & More
I previously wrote an article on “Evidence-Based Uses of Standardized Black Seed Oil” for the June 2023 issue of Vitamin Retailer. In that article I highlighted the research demonstrating the effectiveness of black seed oil (BSO) standardized for its thymoquinone content. In this article, I’m going to take it a step further and examine that ...
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