Industry Forecast … continued

With sweeping changes in the U.S. political landscape ushered in by the 2016 elections, the natural products industry must navigate uncertain seas as it looks forward to 2017. Here is a continuation of NIE’s Industry Forecast article from the January 2017 magazine. Participants: • Darrin Duber-Smith, Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing, College of Business, Metropolitan ...

Supplement Options for Menopausal Women

Supplement Options for Menopausal Women By Holli Lapes, RD, LD/N Menopause is the physiological cessation of menstrual cycles that occurs as the ovaries stop producing estrogen and progesterone. The average onset of menopause is 52 years of age but symptoms of perimenopause can begin as early as age 35. The symptoms of menopause include night sweats, ...

Herbal Supplement Sales in U.S. Increased by 7.5 Percent in 2015

Sales of herbal dietary supplements in the United States increased by 7.5 percent in 2015, according to a new market report by the American Botanical Council (ABC) In 2015, sales for herbal supplements totaled an estimated $6.92 billion, a new sales record. The annual Herb Market Report appears in issue 111 of HerbalGram. The annual ...

Too Much Work Affects Women’s Health

New research shows that women who work more than 60 hours per week are nearly three times more likely to develop heart disease, non-skin cancers, arthritis, and diabetes than those who work less. Even women who worked less than 60 hours per week increased odds of getting chronic ailments as their hours increased—but not for ...

Research on the Effects of Collagen Hydrolysate

Objective: Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of a food supplement made of collagen hydrolysate 1200 mg/day versus placebo during six months, in subjects with joint pain at the lower or upper limbs or at the lumbar spine. Design: Comparative double-blind randomized multicenter study in parallel groups. Setting: 200 patients of both genders of at ...

Diet, Stevia and Blood Sugar Control

With 28 million people in the United States suffering from diabetes, as well as another 80 million with pre-diabetes, the concern with blood sugar has become a health care priority. “There are many factors which can contribute to rises in blood glucose for those with type 2 diabetes, such as metabolic syndrome, weight gain, dehydration, ...

Smell Test Outperforms Brain Imaging in Predicting Dementia

The ability to correctly identify odors may prove to be a more functional approach to identifying people at risk for early stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Currently, physicians have to rely on expensive medical imaging (CT, MRI, or PET scans) to look for changes in the brain that are characteristic of AD. However, one of ...

Sponsored Video: ParActin – HP Ingredients

Hame Persaud, executive vice president of HP Ingredients, discusses the benefits of ParActin, the company’s patented extract of Andrographis Paniculata. For more information, visit hpingredients.com.

Do Probiotics Like Classical Music?

Expo East 2016: NeoCell

The NeoCell crew presents their brand-new Joint Bursts in a unique way – by bursting a move! For more information, visit www.neocell.com. For more videos of our Expo East 2016 coverage, check out Vitamin Retailer‘s full video library!