USANA Earns ConsumerLab.com Certification for The Essentials

USANA Health Sciences Consistently Demonstrates the Quality of its Products through Third-Party Testing

SALT LAKE CITY, June 21, 2011 USANA Health Sciences, Inc. announced today that its popular multivitamin, The Essentials®, has been independently tested and approved by ConsumerLab.com, LLC, a company that tests health products for strength, purity and disintegration to determine whether the product is what it claims to be. ConsumerLab.com is among several independent testing companies that have given USANA the stamp of approval on its rigorously tested products.

"We are proud to say that this and several other USANA products have consistently passed ConsumerLab.com's tests with flying colors," says Dan Macuga, USANA VP of Marketing and Public Relations. "When you work as hard as we do to source the purest possible ingredients and maintain strict quality control and production standards, it's important to obtain third-party certification to help demonstrate your commitment to making effective, reliable products."

ConsumerLab.com verified that both supplements in The Essentials®, a dual-bottle regimen composed of Chelated Mineral® and Mega Antioxidant®, met its testing criteria for ingredient quality and quantity, met US Pharmacopeia standards for disintegration, adhered to FDA labeling requirements and did not exceed California Prop 65 levels for lead contamination, a hot-button issue within the supplements industry.

"We've found that by separating the minerals from the vitamins, we can actually increase the amount of nutrients that are absorbed by our bodies," says Dr. John Cuomo, USANA Executive Director of Product Development. "Separation of the vitamins and minerals allows for greater stability of the tablets, allowing USANA to deliver more potent combinations that will maintain label claim longer than many other products."

Known for keeping health and nutritional companies honest about their product claims, ConsumerLab.com has tested over 3,000 products since 1999. Many products that ConsumerLab.com selects for testing fail. In fact, a recent study showed 1 in 3 vitamins tested by ConsumerLab.com was improperly labeled – typically because the product did not contain the amount of nutrients claimed in the label.

USANA is NSF-certified as following FDA Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), as well as certified by government agencies around the world. USANA's NSF "Certified for Sport" products are used by both professional and Olympic athletes, and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) recently conducted their own testing of USANA products, which are now the only health supplements approved for WTA player use.

"Since we manufacture over 90% of our products in-house, we take third-party verification very seriously, as it's a direct reflection of our extensive research and manufacturing processes," says Jim Brown, USANA VP of International Operations, "USANA was recently the #1 Rated Overall Merchant Based on Customer Satisfaction in ConsumerLab.com's 2011 survey of its readers. That we are getting praise from both independent testing companies and our customers really means a lot to us."

Diabetes prevalence worldwide has more than doubled since 1980, study finds

By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times

The occurrence of Type 2 diabetes worldwide has more than increase two-fold since 1980, ascending from an approximated 153 million three decades before to about 347 million in 2008, investigators described Saturday. About 3 million killings every year are exactly ascribed to the infection, which is initiated by the body's incompetence to competently use insulin secreted by the pancreas. About one in every 10 men round the world and one in every 11 women bears from the disorder, the investigators composed in the periodical Lancet. The investigators resolved that about 70% of the boost was due to aging of the community and the residual 30% was due to the increasing incidence of fatness, which is a foremost risk component for diabetes.

A group directed by epidemiologists Majid Ezzati of the School of Public Health at Imperial College London and Dr. Goodarz Danaei of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston assembled fasting body-fluid sugars from 2.7 million persons worldwide for their analysis. Fasting body-fluid sugars are assessed after a individual has not consumed for 12 to 14 hours and are a good assess of that person's proficiency to metabolize sugars. A grade underneath 5.6 millimoles per liter is advised usual, a grade overhead 7 millimoles is diagnostic of diabetes, and a grade between 5.6 and 7 millimoles is advised pre-diabetic. Over the 30 years of the study, the mean grade for men increased from 5.3 millimoles per liter 5.5, while the lever for women increased from 5.2 millimoles per liter to 5.4.

Extrapolating from their community, the investigators resolved that between 314 million and 382 million persons had diabetes in 2008, with the most probable number being 347 million. A preceding study utilising less unquestionable procedures had approximated that the world had 285 million diabetics in 2010.

"Diabetes is one of the large-scale determinants of morbidity and death worldwide," Ezzati said in a statement. "Our study has shown that diabetes is evolving more widespread nearly universal in the world. This is in compare to body-fluid force and cholesterol, which have both dropped in numerous regions. Diabetes is much harder to avert and heal than these other conditions."

The group discovered broad variations round the world. The utmost development was in the Pacific Island nations. In the Marshall Islands, for demonstration, one in three women and one in four men have diabetes. Glucose grades and diabetes were furthermore especially high in south Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. Among high-income nations, the increase in diabetes was somewhat little in Western Europe and largest in North America. Diabetes rates were largest in the United States, Greenland, Malta, New Zealand and Spain, and smallest in the Netherlands, Austria and France.

Of the 347 million persons with diabetes, 138 million reside in China and India and another 36 million in the U.S. and Russia. The district with the smallest glucose grades was sub-Saharan Africa.

The study was financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization.