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Support For Bone And Joint Health
Strengthening the body from the inside out through nutrition is an opportunity to increase strength and flexibility for bone and joint health while helping to manage aches and pains, a concept with high consumer knowledge. In fact, the state of the market for both manufacturing (new launches) and retail sales of joint health supplements and ...
The Green Scene
Recent studies show that today’s vegetables aren’t as healthy as those of yesteryear.Now is the time for shoppers to fill this nutritional void with a green foods supplement.It Used to be that simply eating vegetables gave people the nutrients they needed to attain good health. But according to a recent study coming out of the ...
An Ounce Of Prevention
There are those people with good, even excellent health coverage. These very fortunate few have the luxury of selecting who treats them, where they receive treatment and often a multitude of options from which to choose from. Then there’s everyone else,” offered Jayson Kroner, health and fitness editor with NOW Foods (Bloomingdale, IL), noting that ...
Digesting The Right Information
Shoppers are finally catching on to the benefits of supporting digestive health. The next step is a deeper understanding of the ingredients and what they do.It used to be that “bacteria” was a negative word—parents demanded antibacterial soaps in schools; dreaded illnesses were classified as bacterial or viral and treated as such. All in all, ...
Warning Signs
As members of the natural products retail industry, we are always aware of numbers. Sales of dietary supplements, organic products, personal care items, functional food and beverages are all regularly reported, making huge numbers that sometimes soar well into the billions seem commonplace.While these estimates are valuable in their own right, they tend to overshadow ...
The Weighting Game
Americans are overweight, enough said. Every time a consumer opens a newspaper or goes online they’re confronted with the statistics, but this influx of publicity has finally resulted in consumers making the connection between their weight and their health. Couple this with mounting health care costs, and these shoppers start seeing natural product retailers as ...
To Your Heart’s Content
A few terms come to mind for a consumer considering a dietary supplement: side effect-free, natural and safe, just to name a few. So it’s no surprise that the pharmaceutical industry, with its pages of sometimes alarming side effects and chemical-laden ingredient lists, is often painted as a competitor of the dietary supplement industry. But ...
Correcting Oversights in Vision Health
Vision has traditionally been an area where little proactive measures are taken to ensure optimal health. The first sign of a visual impairment is most often to treat it with prescriptive lenses and as vision continues to decline the response is to then strengthen the prescription. While this does offer a temporary solution, it does ...
The Beauty Fusion
Cosmeceuticals, aka nutricosmetics, beauty foods, beauty supplements or beauty-from-within products—the names can be confusing, unclear and sometimes controversial, even to those in the natural products industry, let alone the consumer. Whatever its name, this hybrid trend includes functional foods, beverages and the joining of cosmetics with nutrients. In an attempt to help clear confusion, during ...
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