Multivitamins
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 ...
NPA Questions Why Dietary Supplements Aren’t Part of New FDA Criteria for “Healthy” Food Labeling
Days after the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, which convened on Wednesday, Sept. 28, for the first time in more than 50 years, concluded that nutrition was an essential part of an approach to health and wellness, the Natural Products Association (NPA) questioned why a proposed rule by the Food and Drug ...
COSMOS-Mind Study Shows Promise for Multivitamins in Cognition
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) responded to the results of an ancillary study of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study for the Mind (COSMOS-Mind) study conducted by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. Andrea ...
NPA, CRN Release Statements on Preventive Services Task Force Guidance on Dietary Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have issued statements in response to recent findings by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). NPA commented on what USPSTF found in relation between the use of beta carotene and vitamin E for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Ultimately, “The ...
Rhode Island Senate Considers Legislation Restricting Dietary Supplement Accessibility
The Rhode Island State Senate is advancing through the chamber S. 2613, which prohibits dietary supplements from being directly accessible to customers and mandates that only retail clerks may have access. While the bill does not regulate internet sales of dietary supplements in Rhode Island, it requires brick and mortar retailers to post a warning ...
CRN’s Mister Applauds COSMOS Research, Says Results to Drive Industry Innovation
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has commented on the results of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS), which were published on March 16, 2022, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, in two separate papers: • Multivitamins in the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease: The COSMOS randomized clinical trial • Effect ...
A Passion for Men’s Health
Men’s health is a more invigorated market than ever, as men of all ages embrace natural approaches to health and virility. Here’s how to stay on top of the trend. Men today are out there living healthy lifestyles and loving every minute of it. Meaning, compared to only the turn of this century, men of ...
Multiple Choice
Despite some recent negative studies, consumers still love their multis. Here’s a glimpse of what’s trending and what’s available to choose. It’s almost as if some of them want vitamins to fail. In a case of “here we go again,” two meta-analyses published this year concluded that multivitamins don’t prevent heart disease. Yet, millions of ...
Children’s Multivitamins: A Must or Bust?
Most parents can agree that they want the best for their children when it comes to their health. Parents want their kids to grow and flourish, both mentally and physically, in hopes that they are happy and healthy in all aspects of their developing bodies and minds. Giving them a nutritional boost, whether it be ...
Study Finds Multivitamins Can Benefit Women’s Heart Health
The recent study, “Multivitamin-Mineral Use Is Associated with Reduced Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among Women in the United States,” published in The Journal of Nutrition and conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), found that women who took a multivitamin versus non-users for three or more years had ...
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