Quality health-care products

By Annie Wei

The increasing demand for health supplements has led to every local pharmacy, supermarket and department store packing their shelves with a selection of vitamins, herbal medicines and related products. With so many choices, one may feel quite overwhelmed – especially when there are too many even for the stores’ staff to keep straight.

But the World Health Store, owned by Australian Drew Campbell, is a nice alternative. Customers have just as many choices, but the store’s staff members are all trained nutritionists or have sports backgrounds and can help customers find exactly what they need.

Ivy Leung, the store’s marketing director, said their most popular product was a water ionizer (6,850 yuan) that filters harmful particles out of tap water and neutralizes its pH level. Related products like shower filters (365 yuan), which last a full year, are also nice.

The store has a wide collection of imported health supplements from Lifestream International, a New Zealand brand. Its Bioactive Spirulina, at 835 yuan, is not cheap, but it’s “nature’s richest food” for its ability to detoxify heavy metals, Leung said. “You no longer need to take multivitamins.”