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Healthy Immunity: A Balancing Act
As colder weather approaches, consumers are looking to ensure their immune system is functioning optimally. Elizabeth Kim, marketing specialist, Korea Ginseng Corporation, California, noted that according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the timing and severity of the 2022-2023 influenza season will supply the United States with as many as 173 million ...
Muscle & Strength: How Active Nutrition Is the Name of the Game
The Panel: Christopher Bailey, PhD, Director of Scientific Affairs, Gencor, Orlando, FL, www.gencorpacific.com Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Spring, TX, https://betsyhealth.com Katie Emerson, MS, RD, LDN, Manager of Scientific Affairs, Nutrition21, Saddle Brook, NJ, https://nutrition21.com Douglas Kalman, PhD, RD, FACN, FISSN, Clinical Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University and Partner in Substantiation Sciences, Inc., ...
Children’s Health & Wellness Grows
Natural products addressing children’s health are booming as manufacturers focus on parents’ top concerns. Parents are responsible for all aspects of their children’s lives, from safety and security to education and learning the ropes of life. One of a parent’s most important responsibilities, however, is ensuring optimal nutrition and the overall good health of their ...
2023 Retailer of the Year: Fruitful Yield
While successfully adapting to industry changes over the years, this Chicagoland retail favorite keeps the focus on helping people improve their health. Anatural products industry powerhouse, the Richard family started its retail business, Fruitful Yield, as “Health House” in 1962. The tiny store was located in Elmhurst, IL, and focused on soy products, foods and ...
Democratizing EFA Nutrition
Quality, value and sustainability are key requirements for the success of EFA supplements. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are commonly referred to now, but this wasn’t always the case. In the early 1900s, fat in the diet was simply viewed as a source of calories, one that was interchangeable with carbohydrates. However, a husband-and-wife team, George ...
Go Pro!
Prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics dominate the digestive health market—here’s how to keep up. You may be hard-pressed to find a customer in your store who has not heard about probiotics. What an auspicious opportunity to expand their knowledge about the beneficial bacteria! The gut microbiome and its relationship to health, as well as prebiotics that ...
Easing Pain
Summertime often brings a variety of aches, strains, bug bites and of course, sunburn—mini maladies that often kick inflammation into higher gear. Here’s how to help. The pool. The lake. The beach. The park. The campsite. Sun and burns, bugs and bites, running and tripping, swimming, volleyball spiking and hiking causing muscle strains. Yup, it’s ...
Leadership Forum
Leaders in the Natural Products Industry Point the Way Forward The Panel: Corinna Bellizzi, Head of Sales & Marketing- U.S. Nutraceuticals Division, Örlö Nutrition & VAXA Technologies, Wilmington, DE, https://orlonutrition.com Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Spring, TX, https://betsyhealth.com Blake Ebersole, President & Founder, NaturPro Scientific, Carmel, IN, http://naturproscientific.com Jim Emme, CEO, NOW Health ...
Men’s Health: Closing the Gender Gap
Men’s top health supplements may play a role in closing the mortality rate gap between men and women. Mark Twain is credited as saying, “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” And, like Twain, for many American ...
2023 Vity Awards
Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine once again polled its retailer readers on their top-selling products and best sales and merchandising support to compile its 2023 Vity Awards. After all, who is better qualified to determine the industry’s bestselling products than the people who sell them? What started in the 1990s has evolved into one of the ...
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