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Foods With Function
A continuously growing category, functional foods can offer benefits to a wide variety of consumers. In 2012, Americans are busier than ever before. According to The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), 85.8 percent of men and 66. 5 percent of women in the United States work ...
Clearing Up Cholesterol Confusion
Statistics may show an improvement, but retailers still need to take a handson approach answering consumer questions and providing guidance. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately one in every six adults—16.3 percent of the U. S. adult population—has high total cholesterol, the level defined as 240 mg/dL and above. People ...
Responding To Inflammation
Awareness of inflammation has come to the forefront in the scientific and medical communities—now health conscious consumers are catching on as well. In the past, inflammation has been viewed as an acute (short term) response to tissue injury that produces characteristic symptoms and usually resolves spontaneously. However, more contemporary revelations show chronic inflammation to be ...
A Boost For Immune
As the immune category market shows robust growth, manufacturers seek to improve classic products while keeping an eye on the latest trends. Allergies and autoimmune diseases are the major immune problems that affect at least 50 million Americans. The main causes can be attributed to the following factors: genetics and environmental pollutants such as endocrine ...
Desirable Deliverance
Manufacturers are working hard to introduce new delivery methods to answer the needs of both retailers and consumers. When walking down an aisle of their local natural products store, consumers wouldn’t be thrilled if they were seeing the same products offered in the same delivery forms time after time.More likely, they want something innovative, efficient ...
Adding A Branded Punch
Offering retailers a look through formulators’ eyes, VR provides case studies highlighting how the selection of branded ingredients makes for markedly better products. Life Extension Primes the Immune Category With Paractin Serving the industry for 32 years, Florida-based Life Extension prides itself as being a leader in the antiaging and longevity field, of which it ...
2012 Retailer Of The Year: Rainbow Blossom
While it may have been slow out of the gate, Rainbow Blossom bloomed into a full-spectrum destination for Kentucky shoppers. Jimmy Carter is elected president, Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack and a gallon of gas costs 65 cents.That was in 1977, the year Rob and Pumpkin Auerbach founded Rainbow Blossom Natural Food Markets ...
Enzyme Importance
While enzymes are a staple in aiding digestive health issues, their benefits reach far beyond an upset stomach. Americans have earned a stereotype of living their lives to certain extremes. From eating too much of the wrong foods, to being overcome with stress from working long hours and not getting enough sleep, many consumers are ...
Antioxidant Examination
A high demand category with its share of controversy, meeting consumer needs means retailers must weigh the science Though consumers continue to struggle balancing a difficult economy, overall spending for health products, or those perceived to have a health benefit, has increased. And as positive press abounds about antioxidant benefits for inflammation modulation and its ...
A Sight For Sore Eyes
The wait-and-see mentality contributing to the population’s vision problems puts retailers in a position to guide them to better ocular health. Bobbi Elliott, owner of Healthy By Nature, Inc., a single independently owned health food store in Leesburg, VA, has observed that vision health isn’t a top priority for many of her customers. “It is ...
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