With the extent, magnitude, and speed of the internet and all the information it provides, it’s sometimes easy to forget the way, just a generation ago and for hundreds of years, most of us read books and searched for information in libraries. Many of us don’t visit libraries like we used to but they’re still […]
Last month we looked at trendy vitamins and dietary supplements like lutein and collagen. This month we’re shining our spotlight on probiotics, the health food phenomenon that’s worth more than $370 million a year and is projected to increase to $2.6 billion by 2024. Probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts that help keep your gut […]
Recent research suggests less than 3 percent of Americans have a healthy lifestyle – defined as one that reduces a person’s risks for heart disease. This isn’t a huge surprise. After all, heart disease kills over 600,000 of us each year. What may be more surprising is that, in an era with so much accessible […]
Millions of us take a whole host of vitamin and dietary supplements on a regular basis and, with an increase in usage of these by Millennials, the trend is likely to continue. Although about half of adults take a multivitamin, as well as individual supplements like vitamin D, vitamin C, calcium and omega-3, there’s still […]
