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Thanks For The Memories
Enhanced brain health starts with nutritional support.Maintaining a mental edge as we age while having the cognitive capabilities to hang on to precious memories is something we all envision for ourselves in our golden years. Cognition is defined as conscious mental activities: the activities of thinking, understanding, learning and remembering.1 And like the rest of ...
A Teaching Moment For Blood Sugar Management
Retailers who focus on education will find themselves at the forefront of a growing category.There’s no two ways about it: diabetes is a problem in America. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , 29 million Americans have diabetes, up from its previous estimate of 26 million in 2010. And the National ...
The First Herbal Extract? Prehistoric Tea
Popular medicinal teas for modern health.Tea, Camellia sinenesis, is the most popular beverage in the world (excluding water), and most likely, some form of tea was the world’s first herbal extract.1 Soaking dried camellia plants in hot water releases compounds that can have systemic effects, from stimulating caffeine, to cancer preventing polyphenols, to the calming ...
How does Life Extension’s Skin Restoring Phytoceramide with Lipowheat maintain skin hydration?
Ask Dr. Mike Question: My question is how does Life Extension’s Skin Restoring Phytoceramide with Lipowheat maintain skin hydration? Are there any other benefits that this product provides? – Christine at Down to Earth, 2525 S. King Street Honolulu, HI 96826 Answer: Ceramides play a central role in preserving healthy-looking skin. They are an important ...
Retailer Of The Year: Good Nutrition
Georgia-based Good Nutrition enjoys growth, puts customers first.The threat of increasing competition from the likes of Whole Foods and Sprouts Farmers Market doesn’t keep Greg Lee up at night. In fact, for the general manager of Good Nutrition’s eight stores throughout the state of Georgia, it only serves to heighten his opinion of his own ...
Fresh From the Farm
It won’t come as a surprise that many Americans fall short of the recommended daily intake of fruits and vegetables. In a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the median daily intake of fruits and vegetables was 1.1 to 1.6 times per day, respectively, for adults, and 1.0 and 1.3 ...
Pump It Up!
It is no secret that building and maintaining muscle mass is incredibly important to the human body. The skeletal muscles work with the bones to allow the body to move and give it strength and power. According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), strength refers to the muscle’s ability to generate force at ...
2014 Product Sales Training Manual
Ever wish you and your staff could have more one-on-one time with sales representatives from the top companies serving the natural products industry? Finding out how to anticipate and answer customer questions while gaining a deeper understanding of the products you’re carrying (or thinking of carrying) on your shelves? That’s what Vitamin Retailer sought to ...
It’s Gut Check Time
Probiotics continue to grow in popularity as Baby Boomers and others look to natural remedies to improve digestive health.For many of us searching for relief from digestive ills, it’s gut check time. From the Baby Boomer population becoming more focused on natural remedies to help maintain their digestive health, to parents looking for a way ...
Mineral Value
Minerals play a vital role in many functions of the body, so ensuring the correct balance goes a long way in maintaining good health.Many of us underestimate how important minerals are to health. In fact, if we dug down into research, we would find that many top health problems in our society today have a ...
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