Tips for how to sell, cross-merchandise and explain low-glycemic foods Ever notice how important historical movements sound even more impressive when given a great name? The Age of Enlightenment. The Napoleonic Era. The Middle Ages. The Low-Carb Era. Okay, so maybe the latter isn’t a major historical movement, but it...
Broad vegetarian supplements offerings give you a leg up on competitors. You’ve stocked your supplements aisles with thousands of items to meet the diverse needs of your client base: young, old, active, weight-loss focused, stricken a specific health condition, in good general health and beyond. Clearly, these offerings represent hours...
If you’ve noticed additional foot traffic in the special diets section of your food aisles, your store is right on track with the growing trend of consumers looking for healthy, allergen-free meal choices. And, they’re not settling for just anything. Consider this: More than 30 million Americans have some kind...
Nutrition is a crystal clear option for combating age-related vision loss. Part five in a five-part series on anti-aging. Too often, we don’t fully appreciate what we’ve got until it’s gone. In retrospect, we’d consider trading our most prized possessions to recapture a lost friendship, a great job, a fond...
The body isn’t one for subtleties. Eat greasy food late at night and chances are your stomach will have informed you of your bad decision by morning. Internal batteries running low? Your eyes (and under-eye circles) will tell the story of late nights and lack of sleep. As for...
Bigger and better is the American way. Many of us have super-sized our homes, our cars, our stereos and our televisions to keep up with the Jones family next door. A little competition can be healthy, but it can have serious consequences when it becomes extreme. This is especially...
Those looking to achieve healthy aging may want to start small. Very small. Microscopically small, in fact, with cellular function. The mechanisms of aging are complex and not completely understood, but cellular health is one aging topic revisited again and again by researchers. Cells are the smallest units of...
What’s old is new and what’s new is old. The ingredients in natural supplements are, in most cases, as old as the Earth itself, but the industry is far from stagnant. Its growth is continuous as it reinvents traditional supplements with cutting-edge delivery technologies, new flavors and textures, unique...
