weight management
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. ...
Raw Food Diet Debates
One could conclude that raw food predates cooking and, therefore, was the diet of necessity for our earliest ancestors. There is evidence that control of fire by humans may have occurred 400,000 years ago, and some experts would push that date to one million years. Cooking foods expanded the utilization of starchy, hard-to-digest foods and ...
NPA Comments On New York Attorney General’s Subpoenas
Natural Products Association (NPA) CEO and Executive Director Daniel Fabricant, PhD, commented on the subpoenas issued by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman to four major retailers ordering evidence to back up their label claims. “The attorney general is using these subpoenas as a misdirection, removing focus from the fact that he still has ...
Osteo Bi-Flex Launches National Education Joint Campaign
Osteo Bi-Flex, the joint health supplement company, is launching an educational campaign to help raise awareness of joint health, as well as encourage consumers to pay attention to their knees, ankles and other joints. The national campaign will provide consumers with steps to take in order to support joint health. In addition, the brand has retained MWW, ...
Heart to Heart
The numbers can be simply staggering and downright frightening. According to a new American Heart Association (AHA) annual statistical update report on heart and stroke health released in December 2014 that included for the first time a global view, heart disease remains the No. 1 cause of death worldwide with 17.3 million deaths each year. ...
Vitamin Retailer January 2015 Digital Issue
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Smartphone Weight Management Apps
According to the FDA, 500 million smartphone users worldwide will download a health care application, and in 2018, 50 percent of more than 3.4 billion smartphone and tablet users with download this application. In the study, Effectiveness of a Smartphone Application for Weight Loss Compared With Usual Care in Overweight Primary Care Patients, published November ...
Weighing The Options
When combined with diet and exercise, natural supplements can help consumers reach their weight-loss goals. Maintaining a healthy weight is easier said than done, especially in an age where our intake of food is usually greater than the calories burned. Instead of walking, we rely on cars, and technology provides more convenience. Being overweight is ...
Can the body detect the origin of a nutrient in a supplement?
Ask Dr. Mike Question: We would like to ask your doctor if he has an opinion whether the body can tell the origin of a nutrient in a supplement? For instance, consumers have myriad preferences when it comes to what form of magnesium, calcium, B-12, zinc, ascorbates…etc. Can the body detect a plant based or ...
Serving Vegetarian and Vegan Customers
Whether we are talking about veganism or vegetarianism, both of these lifestyles are, and have been on the rise for quite some time now. There are some compelling reasons why people make the switch to these lifestyles. Some want to live longer, healthier lives. Others have made the switch because they want to preserve Earth’s ...
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