Features
Gut Punch
Today’s ingredients pack a wallop for digestion and gut health. The Panel: Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Spring, TX, www.betsyhealth.com Jennifer Brix, ND, Health Educator, Natural Factors, Monroe, WA, https://naturalfactors.com Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG), Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, NutraScience Labs (Twinlab Consolidated Corporation), Farmingdale, NY, www.nutrasciencelabs.com and www.twinlab.com Andrea ...
What’s Powering Athletes Now?
A look inside the current state of the sports nutrition market. Spring brings with it new growth and change. Outside, the world in many parts of the country is reawakening after a long winter’s nap. Spring cleaning and changing out seasonal clothes offer important insights. What’s worn and dated? What needs replacing or sprucing up? ...
Women In Nutritional Supplements and Natural Products: Leadership From a Female Perspective
The Panel: Lucille Perreault, President, Rene’s Naturals, Inc., Florida, www.essiac.ca Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager/Educator, Betsy’s Health Foods Inc., Texas, www.betsyhealth.com Ellen Schutt, Executive Director, GOED, www.goedomega3.com Cheryl Myers, Chief of Scientific Affairs and Education, EuroPharma, Inc. (Terry Naturally), Wisconsin, www.europharmausa.com Tori Hudson, ND, Medical Director, A Woman’s Time, and Co-founder/Co-owner, Vitanica, Oregon, www.vitanica.com Annie Eng, ...
Staying Beautiful With Natural Products
The hair, skin and nail category is booming, especially since the pandemic started. Companies are responding to consumers’ desires to look and feel their best with innovative natural products. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—and for most consumers, it entails having glowing skin, full, shiny hair and strong nails. Consumers value their physical ...
Selling Green Superfoods
The traditional supplement category of green nutrients is energized. It is said that plants’ “blood,” chlorophyll, is astonishingly similar to human hemoglobin—chlorophyll has magnesium where hemoglobin has iron. This factoid is not only interesting for knowledge-hungry customers but serves as a basis for the high relevance of the green food/superfood category. “Eating greens makes sense ...
Taking Heart: Trends, Market Outlook and New Studies in Heart Health
The market is strong for heart health products. Heart health is an area of continued growth and study. In 1924, when the American Heart Association (AHA) was founded, there was little encouraging news regarding heart health. To this point in history, most individuals were prescribed bedrest and faced an inevitable death sentence. My, how times ...
Articulating Well: Promoting Healthy Joint Function
When key joints work well, usually the rest of the body follows suit. Here’s how to help your customers “articulate.” The language of joint dysfunction is usually peppered by “ouch!” The articular system, when healthy, is not something we normally notice until a joint pops, a sound that lets us know it’s there. But when ...
Resolving to Manage Weight
The start of the new year brings customers seeking weight management assistance into health food stores. Retailers can help them begin their journeys in healthy and sustainable ways. As the new year begins and consumers contemplate their resolutions, many opt to put weight loss regimen plans into action. They decide that they will exercise more, ...
Healthy Living
Insights into the healthy aging category. Panelists: Janus Baker, Marketing Brand Manager, Wakunaga of America, Mission Viejo, CA, www.kyolic.com Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Spring, TX, www.betsyhealth.com Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG), Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, NutraScience Labs (Twinlab Consolidated Holdings), www.nutrasciencelabs.com Dan Lifton, CEO, Quality of Life Labs, Port ...
Vitamin Retailer’s 2022 Best New Products
For the 15th consecutive year, Vitamin Retailer, with the guidance of a retailer panel, assembled the year’s best new natural products. Fifteen years ago, Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine decided to honor the year’s top products by asking for the opinions of natural product retailers. Now, the objective remains the same, as these stores offer feedback ...
Don't Miss Out!
Industry Professionals
Stay Informed!
Stay informed about the latest health, nutrition, and wellness developments by signing up for a FREE subscription to Vitamin Retailer magazine and digital newsletter.
Once subscribed, you will receive industry insights, product trends, and important news directly to your doorstep and inbox.
Subscribe To Our Newsletter
Stay Informed! Breaking news, industry trends featured topics, and more.
Subscribe to our newsletter today!


