Content about Dietary supplement

NEW YORK If there’s a huckster swindling supplements as the latest cure-all, turns out it’s not a supplement they’re swindling after all. If not an illicit pharmaceutical outright, it’s at the very least a mismarketed snake oil, and this band of supplement associations is helping to stamp those hucksters out.

NEW YORK Improved sight lines, updated and provocative signage, space for a retail clinic operation — all are elements incorporated into the modern drug store prototype, Duane Reade or otherwise. And all hold significance with today’s over-the-counter supplier.

NEW YORK The most significant piece of news to come out of this (outside of the fact that CRN’s popular “Life…supplemented” campaign will continue) is the proposed survey of registered dieticians, nurse practitioners and pharmacists. Because while prior surveys of doctors and registered nurses that teased out exactly how many of those healthcare practitioners supplement themselves, and recommend that they’re patients do so as well, is important, more important will be measuring the response from this survey.

NEW YORK News such as this really showcases how far the dietary supplement has come in just a few short years. This NAD program was formed and supplemented by the Council for Responsible Nutrition and has proved so popular that the association is looking into extending the program.

NEW YORK It is critical that the dietary supplement industry extol the benefit and value associated with supplementing for health and wellness, especially as today’s legislators determine what health care will look like tomorrow, and how patients will be incentivized into being more proactive around the pursuit of preventative health behaviors.