59Warning Signs
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 ...
Heart Health Educations for All Ages
Everyone knows you’re never too young to learn some heart health basics. According to the American Heart Association (tweaked for in-store application), here are the top 10 ways to help kids achieve a healthy heart: 1. Encourage parents to be a positive role model. If they’re practicing healthy habits, it’s a lot easier to convince ...
Correcting Oversights in Vision Health
Vision has traditionally been an area where little proactive measures are taken to ensure optimal health. The first sign of a visual impairment is most often to treat it with prescriptive lenses and as vision continues to decline the response is to then strengthen the prescription. While this does offer a temporary solution, it does ...
The Beauty Fusion
Cosmeceuticals, aka nutricosmetics, beauty foods, beauty supplements or beauty-from-within products—the names can be confusing, unclear and sometimes controversial, even to those in the natural products industry, let alone the consumer. Whatever its name, this hybrid trend includes functional foods, beverages and the joining of cosmetics with nutrients. In an attempt to help clear confusion, during ...
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