The plant-based food industry gathered for Plant Based World Expo 2022 in New York in September. We saw how the growing trend of plant-based foods has gone mainstream. The global plant-based market will grow from U.S. $30 billion in 2021 to a staggering U.S. $160 billion by 2030, making up...
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) met at the end of August in Boston, Massachusetts, for the first time since 2019 for the annual Total Store Expo. NACDS Total Store Expo is the largest gathering for suppliers and retailers in the health and beauty industry. Companies attend in...
Cutting back your marketing during a recession is the beginning of the end for your brand awareness and customer engagement. When you cut back on your marketing or stop it all together, you quickly disappear. It doesn’t matter how strong your products are or how much brand loyalty you have...
People are living longer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are living healthier lives. More than half of adults in the United States have been diagnosed with a chronic illness. In almost all cases, these conditions are caused by poor nutrition. Nutrition is the Root of the Problem The general...
Like pretty much everyone else in the dietary supplement industry, I would like to be able to look into a crystal ball and predict the top product categories of interest for the upcoming year. Not surprisingly, I don’t have a crystal ball. That being said, I do have 43 years...
Creating unexpected moments of happiness. That’s the driving force behind our annual Heart + Soil Day every September at Lycored, and it worked its magic again for us this year with our Seeds of Positivity event. It all started on Valentine’s Day when we took our mission to the streets...
Every autumn, my mom and I have a tradition of going to our favorite local orchard and picking all the apples we can carry. We never leave without some apple cider and doughnuts, before heading home to cook up some applesauce or baked treats. This year, we’re highlighting the apple...
Washington, D.C.—Two new studies published in the British Medical Journal focus on vitamin D and COVID-19: Prevention of covid-19 and other acute respiratory infections with cod liver oil supplementation, a low dose vitamin D supplement: quadruple blinded, randomised placebo controlled trial Effect of a test-and-treat approach to vitamin D supplementation on...
To rank on the first page of Google, you need to give Google and your customers what they want. It is usually easy to understand what your customers want—but it can be confusing to please Google. The simple way to know if you’re not pleasing Google is to look at...
The recent federal court ruling on the legality of the 2018 GMO labeling laws confirmed the obvious: a checkerboard square that shoppers can’t read is not an adequate GMO disclosure. That was the small but significant win for Natural Grocers and other plaintiffs resulting from the lawsuit filed by the...
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