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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 ...
Achieving Critical Balance: Supporting Healthy Blood Sugar Levels
A category not well-understood by consumers, here’s how to help them navigate their lives to achieve and sustain healthy blood sugar levels for the long-term. When a parent or other family member is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, it is often a wake-up call for the “diagnosee,” but also for healthy family members. But that ...
Minding the Store—The Brain-Health Category Reigns Supreme
Panelists: Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Spring, TX, www.betsyhealth.com Sébastien Bornet, Vice President Global Sales & Marketing, Horphag Research, Geneva, Switzerland, www.pycnogenol.com Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG), Vice President of Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, NutraScience Labs, Farmingdale, NY, www.nutrasciencelabs.com Katie Emerson, MS, RD, LDN, Manager of Scientific Affairs, Nutrition21, Saddle Brook, NJ, www.nutrition21.com ...
Hallmarks of Health: Multivitamins and Minerals
Consumers post-COVID-19 are more health-conscious—and many have turned toward multivitamin and mineral supplements to maintain or improve their health. The natural products industry is well aware that consuming vitamins and minerals plays a vital part in keeping consumers healthy. Ideally, all of these micronutrient needs would be met through diet alone; however, the modern American ...
The Bright Side
Mood waxes and wanes—help your customers stay positive. We feel it every day and often it can dictate what we do, how much we do, and what we don’t do. Mood. “Mood is something that is internally felt, and its vibration can affect us to our core, dictating our behaviors and physical actions and, of ...
Immune Season 2022-23: BA.5 is Back for More
COVID-19 mutation BA.5 is on the rise, and will impact the immune support category in a dramatic way. It’s like the oft-repeated line from “The Godfather”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” Just when we thought we could leave COVID behind, its latest incarnation, BA.5, is pulling us back ...
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