weight management
2010 Vity Awards
Because we believe no one is better qualified to determine the industry’s best-selling products than the people who sell them, Vitamin Retailer once again polled its retailer readers on their top-selling products and best sales and merchandising support.What started in the 1990s has evolved into one of the most soughtafter awards in the natural products ...
Building A Free Radical Defense
Antioxidants are big business and growing exponentially: the overall market for antioxidants was valued at a whopping $12 billion in 2009, according to Euromonitor International, and the number of products with ‘antioxidants inside’ style labels is mushrooming. According to Mintel’s Global New Products Database (GNPD), in 2009, there were 409 launches globally with ‘antioxidants’ flagged ...
Science of Supplements
This special section of Vitamin Retailer comes in response to the industry’s desire for more information—retailers wanting to know more about the products they sell and manufacturers, suppliers and private labelers wanting to offer the science that backs the effectiveness of their products.We have featured a similar section annually in Nutrition Industry Executive since 2002, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Weight Management Suite of Ingredients
Building off the success of its Phase 2 Carb Controller™ ingredient (as found in Natrol’s Carb Intercept), which reduces the absorption of calories from starchy foods (carbs), caters to the consumer seeking a product that is well documented, safe and effective (29 studies, GRAS), Pharmachem Laboratories, Inc. (Kearny NJ) is now launching a complete weight ...
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 ...
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