Diet and Nutrition


The Fifty-million-dollar Diet

For the past 10 years Harold Katz has helped people shed unwanted fat. All those losses add up to healthy profits for Nutri/System.  Read story

Airborne Settles Lawsuit

The Inc. 500 firm will reimburse consumers who bought its pills to prevent colds.  Read story

Chew Chew

Vitamins packaged like Life Savers are now marketed at the cash register.  Read story

GreenTree Vs. MotherNature.com

In " What Level Playing Field? " from the May 1999 issue, Inc. staff writer Marc Ballon...  Read story

Where's The Salt?

Americans, addicted to fast food but obsessed with looking trim, can now order instant gratification -- hold the guilt. A new restaurant chain, D'Lites of...  Read story

Slim Pickings

INC. 100 veteran Harold Katz and his franchisees thought they had a formula for perpetual growth. Then their customers cut them down to size.  Read story

The Granola Guys

Jason Osborn and Jason Wright started Feed Granola Co. out of their New York apartment. Today their healthy snacks can be found on the shelves of Whole Foods...  Read story

Gut Check

Are you a victim of the Entrepreneur 15? That's the weight many entrepreneurs gain their freshman year of running a company.  Read story

In Business For Yourself, By Jerome Goldstein. Charles Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth Ave., New York, Ny 10017; 176 Pp., $12.95.

Small-format guidance through entrepreneurial snares, particularly in regard to off-the-beaten-track enterprises such as waste recycling, alcohol fuel, an...  Read story

Indiana University:
A Jolt of Energy, Minus the Crash

Zac Workman became a connoisseur of energy drinks at an early age. At the end of each day, after five hours' practice for his high school swim team, he wo...  Read story

The Language of Business

Apart from traditional accounting, a CEO works out his own equations for success.  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: J. Darius Bikoff

It's hard to explain the necessity of a $50,000 refrigerated car trunk.  Read story

How Would You Sell a Virtual Makeover?

Where should ModiFace market its online makeover tools, including HairMixer and WeightMirror?  Read story

Aerosol Yogurt

New business information on yogurt-based whipped cream.  Read story

Doughnut Figures

Rankings of corporate America's favorite varieties of doughnuts.  Read story

Battle of the Network All-Stars

The secrets of HSN's top marketers.  Read story

Unbridled Growth

For five years, Herbalife International's health and diet pitch has made it one of the fastest-growing companies in American history. Now a series of investi...  Read story

A Besieged Brewery Fights Back

Rock Art Brewery is embroiled in a trademark war with the beverage giant Hansen over the name of the brewery's Vermonster beer.  Read story

Repeat Sales: Identify Your Best Customers

The marketing strategy of health-food producer is examined and explained by its advertising director.  Read story

Ask Andy Berliner

Andy Berliner co-founded Amy's Kitchen with his wife, Rachel, in 1987. Amy's had $240 million in revenue in its 2008 fiscal year and has 1,700 employees.  Read story

My Body Is a ... Profit Center

Lee Labrada's corpus really is his temple.  Read story

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - Jason Wright, Feed Granola

#28 JASON WRIGHT #29 JASON OSBORN FEED GRANOLA CO. Ages: 29 (Wright) and...  Read story

Benefits: Getting Personal

A quick look at a company that offers its employees a series of seminars that range from investments to fitness.  Read story

Obese Employees Cost Companies More

A new study suggests that investing in wellness programs may pay off on the bottom line.  Read story

Whatever You Do, Don't Call it a Search Engine

New question-answering sites, such as Wolfram Alpha, seek to differentiate themselves from the Googles of the world.  Read story

Web Awards 2000: ROI

Low-cost start-up, strong revenues, and fast growth are some reasons that DirectWireless.com and Affordable Supplements landed second and third place, respec...  Read story

Is the Atkins Brand Toast?

Why the Atkins diet is getting plumped up with product.  Read story

Big Plans

United Sciences of America sets out to harness the power of multilevel marketing.  Read story

Applicant of the Week: Attack! Marketing and Promotions

Three friends use guerrilla marketing techniques to take their agency to the next level.  Read story

Big Bucks From Little Franchises Grow

A successful franchisor enriches himself, but a good one, someone like Harold Katz, enriches others as well. The Nutri/System formula perfected by Katz h...  Read story

The Education of a Big-Company Man

Jim Kilmer's years at H.J. Heinz didn't prepare him for company-building as well as he had expected.  Read story

Herbalife Offshoots

Congratulations on Curtis Hartman's article about Herbalife International ("Unbridled Growth," December 1985). Unfortunately, despite the current focus on...  Read story

Benefits;

Type of health program, % of managers claiming from most common to least: program boosted morale: Smoking control ...  Read story

The Best Gifts for Work-Life Balance

Don’t take the adage, “All work and no play …” for granted. These gifts blur the line between home and office, so you can take care of business, but ...  Read story

Inc. 500 Alumni: Where Are They Now?

Each year since 1981, Inc. magazine has named the fastest-growing small privately held companies in America. When companies first make the In...  Read story

10 Tips for Avoiding Burnout and Inviting Balance

Breathe deeply - Have you ever noticed your breathing when you' re feeling stressed or moving at warp speed? It' s probably shallow and ...  Read story

Applicant of the Week: MonaVie

How this producer of health drinks has gotten the attention of celebs like Rachael Ray, and is saving the rainforest one acai berry at a time.  Read story

Pop For Pampered Pets

After a hard day chasing cars, your pooch comes home, all tired and sweaty, and finds a tepid bowl of tap water. No wonder he bites you. If humans can hav...  Read story

Is Japan An Open Market?

The answer to this question used to be a flat no. Until recently, most Japanese would have freely acknowledged that their government nurtured domestic in...  Read story

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William Danforth had the right product for turn-of-the-century St. Louis when he began making feed for horses and mules. But whole wheat cereal for humans...  Read story

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