weight management
Heading Off Pain
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), chronic pain affects about 100 million Americans annually and costs the nation upwards of $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. That’s more than the total number of adults affected each year by heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined.And whether it’s chronic or acute pain, ...
The Detox Challenge
Detoxing and cleansing the body is nothing new. People have been doing it for centuries for religious and cultural reasons. Detoxing can be traced as far back as 400 B.C.E. when practitioners of ayurvedic medicine often recommended diets that cleansed the body of impurities by eliminating various food groups and emphasizing a plantbased diet. Further, ...
Konjac Root/Glucomannan for Weight Control, Blood Lipids & Constipation
The konjac plant (Amorphophallus konjac), native to warm subtropical to tropical eastern Asia, has been used in China, Japan and South East Asia as a food source (to make noodles, tofu and snacks) and as a traditional medicine (for treating asthma, cough, hernia, breast pain, burns as well as hematological and skin disorders) for more ...
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 ...
FDA: V26 Slimming Coffee Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use V26 Slimming Coffee, a product promoted and sold for weight loss on various websites and possibly in some retail stores. FDA laboratory analysis confirmed that V26 Slimming Coffee contains sibutramine. Sibutramine is a controlled substance that was removed from the market ...
New Survey Reveals High Percentage of U.S. Population Take Dietary Supplements
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) revealed key findings from its 2014 CRN Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements, pointing to a high percentage of usage of, and a high percentage of confidence in, dietary supplements among U.S. adults. The survey, in its 15th consecutive year, found that 68 percent of U.S. adults report taking dietary supplements, ...
Authors Retract Green Coffee Bean Diet Paper Touted by Dr. Oz
According to Retraction Watch report, two authors of a 2012 paper cited on The Dr. Oz Show, which made grand claims about green coffee bean extract’s abilities to help people lose weight, have retracted it. The study’s sponsors, Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham, cannot assure the validity of the data so so they are retracting the paper, reported ...
What are the benefits of amino acids?
Ask Dr. Mike Question: We sell several individual Amino Acids and although it is easy to know what some are beneficial for (such as L-lysine for immunity, L-arginine for circulation, etc.), but it would be nice to have a list of the known functions and/or benefits of each available in supplement form. – Carmela at Down ...
NPA Urges Supreme Court to Clarify Claims on Supplements
The Natural Products Association (NPA) this week filed a “friend of the court” or amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey that challenges legal action by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) against Bayer for its marketing of its Phillips’ ...
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