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OmniActive’s “Lutein for Every Age” Initiative Highlights Children’s Eye and Brain Health
As a new school year commences, parents and caregivers have the pivotal task of ensuring children succeed, as early educational achievements lay the foundation for future accomplishments. For most, this means arranging tutors, scheduling doctor’s appointments, and encouraging participation in extracurricular activities to maximize children’s learning potential. Yet, many do not recognize nutrition’s integral role ...
Formulating Nutraceuticals for Children
The children’s vitamin market was first pioneered in 1960 by Miles Laboratories, the original creators of the One-A-Day chewable multivitamin, Chocks. Realizing the benefit of marketing to children, a licensing agreement was made with Hanna Barbera and the Flintstones Chewable Multi-Vitamin was born in 1968, later expanding into gummies and adding various other recognizable kid-friendly ...
NPA Responds to Report of Increased, Unintentional Pediatric Melatonin Ingestion
Over the past decade and particularly since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of melatonin supplements to address sleep issues has increased significantly by both adults and children. On Thursday, June 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a 10-year study that found a sharp increase in the use of ...
Vitamin Angels Advanced Goal to Reduce Barriers to Access Essential Nutrition for Pregnant Women Globally in 2021
Vitamin Angels, a public health nonprofit working to improve nutrition worldwide, focused their efforts in 2021 on reducing the barriers to accessing essential nutrition that underserved pregnant women and children face in the U.S. and around the world. As a result, Vitamin Angels program partners were able to extend their health and nutrition services further than ever ...
Vitamin Angels US Announces Program Partnership with Vitamin Angels UK
Vitamin Angels US, a public health and nutrition organization delivering evidence-based nutrition interventions to nutritionally vulnerable, underserved populations globally, has announced a program partnership with Vitamin Angels UK. Together, the organizations will provide supplemental food packages, free of charge, to select nurseries serving children in the U.K. who are at nutritional risk. “One in four ...
Formulating for Generation and Gender
No two individuals are exactly alike, but at certain stages, we tend to share common health concerns, characteristics and traits. Of course “one size does not fit all,” which is why years ago, multivitamins branched out from just being formulated for “adults” and for “children.” Formulating for generation and gender makes simple sense. But there ...
Screen Time Exacerbates Impulsive Behavior in Children
Some parents can believe that when their children are preoccupied with their tablets or TV that it may be a blessing – no rowdy behavior, or running around knocking over lamps. However, a new study showed that too much screen time can have a deleterious effect in kids. A study recently published in Pediatrics shows ...
Kids Today
Children face different challenges in 2020 and beyond. Here are some ideas on how to formulate for children to help them grow into a healthy adulthood. It can certainly be said that children tend to be naturally enlightening, as they perceive their world and the people in it in such refreshing ways. And when children ...
Why Formulate a Children’s Vision Support Supplement?
According to new research, ophthalmologists are seeing a significant increase in children with dry eye and eyestrain from too much screen time. Digital eyestrain is an increasing problem among children. They can experience dry eye, eyestrain, headaches and blurry vision, too. While symptoms are typically temporary, they may be frequent and persistent. A new study ...
Obesity in Childhood and Adulthood Shown to Increase Risk of Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis
The results of a study presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) suggest childhood and adult obesity increase the risk of developing hip osteoarthritis (OA) and knee OA, but not hand OA. Obesity and OA are two interconnected health care problems affecting a large proportion of the adult population worldwide, however studying ...
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