Education

High schoolers exposed to nutritional education more likely to use third-party tested supplements

02-Feb-2024 By Claudia Adrien

As states continue to pass bills to restrict the sale of weight loss and muscle building supplements to minors, new research shows how a little education goes a long way.

SupplySide West 2023: What’s happening off the show floor

09-Oct-2023 By Asia Sherman

In less than three weeks, the dietary supplement industry will converge on the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas for several days of natural ingredients networking on the SupplySide West trade show floor.

Insights from Probiota 2023

Probiotic players must lobby for change as consumers want transparency and education, experts say

13-Feb-2023 By Nikki Hancocks

Consumers are keen to learn about probiotics and see the word on packaging, but EU regulation still leaves industry's hands tied with no harmonisation and poor institutional education.

Consumers "will pay more" for the health benefits of fermented protein

15-Dec-2022 By Nikki Hancocks

Not only do consumers perceive fermentation as providing positive health benefits, but they are also happy to pay up to 75% more to receive those benefits, according to consumer research.

Study calls for enhanced anti-doping education in sports science

31-Oct-2022 By Nikki Hancocks

Sports science students in Spain are gaining suboptimal knowledge of basic anti-doping rules and doping prevention strategies, researchers have warned.

NutraWomen Wednesday: Jen Palmer, ND, Dietary Supplement Education Consultant

28-Sep-2022 By Danielle Masterson

Jen Palmer is a naturopathic doctor with 20 years’ experience in the dietary supplement industry and integrative medicine profession.

Lief Labs launches Lief University

07-Jul-2022 By Danielle Masterson

Lief partnered with College of the Canyons (COC) to educate and develop its workforce.

Expo West: Our picks of the best supplements-specific education

24-Feb-2022

The big return to Anaheim is only a couple of weeks away, so we looked at the education session to pick out the key supplements-related session we’ll adding to our agendas.

News in Brief

Yakult and APC Microbiome Ireland launch gut-brain axis consumer guide

15-Oct-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

Yakult UK and Ireland has launched a guide to the gut-brain axis, in collaboration with APC Microbiome Ireland, after research revealed that just 29% of consumers have heard of this link.

Nutripedia app fights fake news about pregnancy and early life nutrition

13-Sep-2021 By Lynda Searby

A pilot study suggests that an app- and web-based approach could be an “inexpensive” and “high value” way of promoting accurate information on pregnancy and early life nutrition.

NutraCast: SCNM launches graduate degree program ‘for the industry, by the industry’

03-Sep-2021 By Danielle Masterson

Despite being a multi-billion dollar industry, there are no graduate degree programs from accredited academic institutions for executives in the nutrition business sector—until now. The Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences...

Physicians receive inadequate nutrition education, study calls for policy changes

27-Sep-2019 By Danielle Masterson

Poor diet is the leading risk factor for early death worldwide. Yet nutrition is insufficiently incorporated into medical education, according to a new report from the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC).