• Feedback: 12/1999
    Q: How has your store prepared for Y2K, and how have sales been impacted by the millennial hype? "Oddly enough, I don't think Y2K really has had an impact here. I have not really noticed a change, but I have had a lot of customers ask me if we are going to have a lot ...More
    December 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles
  • Global Harvest
    Global Harvest LIBERTY, Mo.--Two new branded specialty ingredients, Velantra and Imperial Velvet, have just hit the market. Velantra is a patent-pending ingredient consisting of a proprietary combination of joint foods desinged to provide optimal support to joint structure ...More
    December 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, New Products
  • HSR'S ANNUAL GUIDE TO HERBS
    HSR'S ANNUAL GUIDE TO HERBS This is the third edition of HSR's Annual Guide to Herbs. Intended to help you, the retailer, in your effort to educate and inform your customers, each article is dedicated to presenting the most up-to-date, scientific information related to a ...More
    December 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Women's Health, Heart Health, Immune
  • Just A Moment
    Just A Moment The last publisher's letter of the century...now that's pressure. The easy way out is to write about the many achievements of the past and the great potential for the future. Instead, though, I am going to focus on something much more important than yesterday ...More
    December 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles
  • Natural Business Summit Examines Macro Trends Affecting Industry
    Natural Business Summit Examines Macro Trends Affecting Industry BOULDER, Colo.--Speakers from large supermarkets to market research firms discussed the macro trends that are changing the face of natural products retailing during the first Natural Business Retail Strategies ...More
    December 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Bone/Joint, Store Operations, Supplements
  • NuTriene Tocotrienols: Antioxidants From a Unique Source
    NuTriene Tocotrienols: Antioxidants From a Unique Source by Alisa Berman Most of us would probably like to know: What are tocotrienols? What do they have to do with vitamin E? Why should they be important to consumers? Here's a fairly simple explanation: Tocotrienols are ...More
    December 1, 1999 by Alisa Berman
    Posted in Articles, Heart Health, Supplements
  • Nutritional Help for Hepatitis C
    Nutritional Help for Hepatitis C by Heath Davis Havlick When Sherril Wolff donated blood in 1995, she had never heard of hepatitis C. When she got a letter from the Red Cross telling her she had it, she wasn't too worried. Hepatitis was common and relatively easy to treat. ...More
    December 1, 1999 by Heath Davis Havlick
    Posted in Articles, Digestion, Immune, Store Operations
  • Pycnogenol Reduces Platelet Aggregation in Smokers
    Pycnogenol Reduces Platelet Aggregation in Smokers WESTPORT--Pycnogenol, an extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, is as effective as aspirin in preventing the increase in platelet aggregation that occurs with smoking, but it does not increase bleeding ...More
    December 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Brain Health/Mood, Women's Health
  • USDA Awards Grants to Decode Rice Genome
    USDA Awards Grants to Decode Rice Genome WASHINGTON--The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in conjunction with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation, has awarded two grants totaling $12.3 million for mapping and sequencing of the genome of ...More
    December 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles
  • Alcohol and the Liver in the New Year
    Alcohol and the Liver in the New Year New Year's Eve is the wild nightcap of the Winter holiday drinking season. This year will be even more decadent thanks to the approaching milestone of the year 2000. Amidst the usual dancing, mingling and friendly arguments over whether ...More
    November 1, 1999
    Posted in Articles, Digestion, Supplements