Tips for serving your female shoppers’ needs.The running joke is that women are natural-born shoppers, obsessed with malls and fearless in the face of a crowded sale or 10-person-deep checkout line. According to a new Facts, Figures & the Future e-newsletter, there’s some truth to this. While men may be...
A child’s smile is one of the most beautiful things on Earth. And that is exactly what we saw as we traveled 13,000 feet up in the Andes of Peru where non-profit organization, Vitamin Angels, was observing distribution of their prenatal and children’s multivitamins. Children in these communities walk at...
Harleysville, PA; Austin, TX—Two interweaving studies have been released that examine not only which natural supplements are growing in sales and popularity, but also who is buying them and their motivations for doing so. The 2013 Nutritional Supplement/OTC/Rx Consumer Insight & Market Opportunity Report, released in early August by the...
Although MegaFood is about to become a quadragenarian, the whole food vitamins manufacturer’s unique sense of business hasn’t changed a lick. The company was founded on the belief that dietary supplements should be made from farm-fresh whole foods, and still holds that belief after 40 years in the game. “There’s...
Learn about the many ways garlic supplements can benefit the body. Garlic is common in many foods, but what some shoppers may not know is that garlic can benefit the body in multiple ways, beyond tickling our taste buds—and we don’t mean warding off vampires. Fresh Garlic versus Supplement Forms...
With consumer demand at an all time high, it’s no wonder the marine oils market hasn’t stopped evolving.The market for fish and other marine oils is a nutrition industry behemoth. It has even surpassed multivitamins in terms of the percentage of consumers that use them, at 72% for fish/marine oils...
The science, safety and marketing of natural energy and endurance supplements. Part Four of a Five-Part Series on Sports Nutrition Among the factors involved in athletic performance, it’s safe to say that energy is fairly fundamental. Crucial, too, is having enough of the different kinds of energy necessary for victory.
Berkeley, CA—A new study reports that vitamin D deficiency may decrease bone quality as well as density, increasing the risk of fracture. Published in Science Translational Medicine, the study, conducted by Robert Ritchie, Ph.D., Sc.D., and his colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California and University Medical...
Washington, D.C.—The Natural Products Association (NPA) board of directors recently announced that it has endorsed the Genetically Engineered Food Right-To-Know Act, which mandates that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require the labeling of genetically modified ingredients to be labeled on foods. NPA is the first natural products industry...
Silver Spring, MD—On July 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is taking steps to remove dietary supplements from the market that it says are associated with illegal health claims. The agency sent warning letters to 15 companies it feels are making illegally marketed diabetes products, insisting...
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