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Senator Blumenthal Withdraws Amendment to Limit Military Access to Supplements
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) withdrew his amendment to the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require supplements sold on military bases to be verified by a third-party amid strong opposition by the supplement industry. Enacted on an annual basis by Congress, NDAA legislation establishes budget and policy parameters for the Department of ...
CRN Welcomes New Dietary Guidelines for Americans
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), a trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, congratulated the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) upon the recent release of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The Guidelines state an objective to “meet nutritional needs primarily ...
Women, Health and Supplements
Both Millennial and Boomer women will continue to drive supplement sales—many within the same categories of supplements, but for different health concerns. The state of the market for women’s health supplements is very healthy, primarily because the core supplement shoppers are woman. According to Stacey Gillespie, director of product marketing with New Hampshire-based MegaFood, “In ...
Olympian Labs Challenge: Transform Your Body in 47 Days
Olympian Labs, Inc., an Arizona-based national health supplement company, partnered with Arizona-based Jeremy Scott Fitness to bring the “47-Day Body Transformation Challenge” to 26 participants from Arizona to Maine. The challenge took place between August 10 and September 26. Arizona participants trained at Jeremy Scott Fitness in Scottsdale, AZ, while those out of state, completed ...
Survey Reveals Most Popular Supplements
A recent survey, ConsumerLab.com Survey of Vitamin and Supplement Users, that polled more than 10,000 participates showed the most popular dietary supplement to be fish oil, followed by multivitamins, CoQ10, vitamin D, B vitamins, magnesium, calcium, probiotics and vitamin C. With the exception of magnesium overtaking calcium, this years’ order is similar to that of last year’s survey. ...
Probiotics May Ease Anxiety and Depression
A recent study suggests that supplements that boost probiotics, the beneficial micro-organisms in the body, can affect the way people process emotional information, as well as easing anxiety and depression. The study recruited 45 healthy 18- to 45-year-olds. Half of the participants were given a probiotic supplement and the other half a placebo, to be taken everyday for three ...
New Infographic from CRN: The Dietary Supplement Consumer
Infographic from Council for Responsible Nutrition. See www.crnusa.org/CRNconsumersurvey/2014 for more.
Sprouts Farmers Market Expands Across the U.S.
Sprouts Farmers Market (Phoenix, AZ) announced its early 2015 expansion plan that includes seven new stores by next year. Sprouts reports that Birmingham, AL will be the first to open, followed by new stores in Bakersfield, CA; Cumming, GA; Daly City, CA; Liberty, MO; Scottsdale, AZ; and South Jordan, UT. Each of these stores will ...
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 ...
Real Men Take Supplements
With preventative daily health routines becoming more widely practiced, even men, who have lagged behind women in regard to personal health, are joining in. According to a recent Men’s Health Network and Abbott national survey of more than 2,000 men, 52 percent said they usually see a doctor when something needs to be “fixed,” and ...
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