http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:27:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The long-term viability of Scottsdale-based Matrixx Initiatives could be in doubt as company officials work to mitigate consumer fears about the safety of its Zicam homeopathic cold remedies in the wake of an FDA warning letter that the company received on June 16. In the letter addressed to Acting President, ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/06/23/adverse-event-reporting-a-key-issue-in-the-zicam-case/ A study published June 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine showing the cholesterol-lowering benefits of red yeast rice triggered a cascade of news stories in the popular press—a welcome change from all of the negative headlines published over the last month about dietary supplements being unregulated, ineffective and, in ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/06/16/red-yeast-rice-research-triggers-mostly-positive-news-for-supplements/ In the Letters section of its June 8 issue, Sports Illustrated ran reader responses to the May 18 supplement article, “What You don’t Know Might Kill You.” The letter Nutrition Business Journal submitted, which corrected the NBJ data that was erroneously cited in the article, was not printed—nor were any ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/06/09/wheres-the-balance-si-continues-attack-on-supplements/ The Foundation for Child Development issued a scary report last week arguing that the recession could result in children—particularly poor and very young kids—eating even more cheap, low-quality, unhealthy food than they currently do, as cash-strapped parents are forced to substitute fast food and junk food for more nutritious fare ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/06/08/will-the-recession-really-force-kids-to-eat-more-hohos-and-big-macs/ Cognis, one of the largest raw material and ingredient supply companies serving the nutrition industry, saw its sales volume decline 18% during the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period last year, as falling consumer demand and a subsequent customer destocking effect negatively impacted company performance, Cognis reported ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/06/02/cognis-q1-sales-volume-down-18-as-customers-destock-inventory/ Dietary supplements are taking a beating in the mainstream press these days, but a new study funded by the Natural Products Foundation provides more positive fodder about the economic benefits provided by the supplements industry. According to the study, the dietary supplements industry contributes about $61 billion annually to the ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/05/28/supplement-industry-adds-61-billion-to-us-economy/ In a May 18 Sports Illustrated cover feature titled “Supplements: The Dangerous Obsession with Improved Performance,” David Epstein and George Dohrmann do their best to deliver a knock-out punch to the sports supplement industry and the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), which the writers say is the basic ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/05/19/sports-illustrated-slams-supplements-and-dshea/ Mainstream press coverage of the dietary supplement and healthy food and beverage markets has been anything but positive this week, and the growing barrage of negative news could be a sign of things to come for the U.S. nutrition industry—particularly if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/05/14/from-abc-news-to-sports-illustrated-nutrition-industry-falls-under-fire/ Network-marketing companies doing business in the nutrition industry have seen an increase in the recruitment of new distributors, though many of the top companies are reporting downward sales trends for 2008 and the first part of 2009. Companies have capitalized on people looking for new ways to save money or ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/05/12/network-marketers-increase-recruiting-efforts-to-offset-slowing-sales/ When Barack Obama was asked by a licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist during an April 29 town hall meeting how complementary & alternative medicine will fit into his healthcare agenda, the president said he is an advocate for doing what works. “I think it is pretty well documented through scientific ... http://blog.nutritionbusinessjournal.com/nbj/2009/05/05/if-the-science-is-there-obama-says-he-will-back-complementary-alternative-therapies/