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Raw Food Diet Debates

by Cheryl Myers | February 27, 2015

One could conclude that raw food predates cooking and, therefore, was the diet of necessity for our earliest ancestors. There is evidence that control of fire by humans may have occurred 400,000 years ago, and some experts would push that date to one million years. Cooking foods expanded the utilization of starchy, hard-to-digest foods and […]

Potassium Salts Aid Bone Health

by Cristina Goodwin | February 27, 2015

Latest research from the University of Surrey has found that the potassium salts (bicarbonate and citrate) plentiful in fruit and vegetables, play an important part in improving bone health. For the first time, the results also showed that these potassium salts reduce bone resorption, the process by which bone is broken down, therefore increasing their […]

Building Bones

by Cristina Goodwin | February 27, 2015

Building strong bones and even reversing bone damage can be aided with a balanced diet and a variety of specialty supplements. As people pass through their 20s, 30s and 40s into middle age, bone health seems to tip in favor of bone mineral loss––especially if the diet is inadequate or physical activity is lacking, according […]

High Family Stress Can Impact Child’s Immune System

by Shari Barbanel | February 27, 2015

High family stress can lead to the child’s immune system being affected, as a research group at the School of Health Sciences at Jönköping University and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Linköping University in Sweden shows in a study being published in the American periodical Journal of Immunology. Our immune system has the task […]

Stop Stressing and Relax

by Shari Barbanel | February 27, 2015

With stress and anxiety on the rise, consumers are turning toward the natural sector to help them relax. To say that Americans are stressed out is putting it mildly. According to research from the American Institute of Stress (AIS) and the American Psychological Association (APA), in 2014, 77 percent of people regularly experience physical symptoms […]

FDA: What is the meaning of ‘natural’ on the label of food?

by Daniel Breeman | February 27, 2015

From a food science perspective, it is difficult to define a food product that is ‘natural’ because the food has probably been processed and is no longer the product of the earth. That said, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not developed a definition for use of the term natural or its derivatives. However, […]

Men’s Sexual Health: The Testosterone Connection

As men age, there is often a decline in levels of testosterone. Research1 indicates that testosterone levels in men fall progressively with age and that a significant percentage of men over the age of 60 years have serum T levels that are below the lower limits of young adult men (age 20-30 years). Some studies2 […]

A Defining Moment

by Daniel Breeman | February 27, 2015

As the industry pushes for a definition of “natural” to call its own, who will lead the charge? If it says “natural” it must be true, right? It’s no secret that the term “natural” carries a rather broad meaning in the natural products industry. And because of this, confusion among retailers, suppliers, manufacturers and certainly […]

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