Articles by Shari Barbanel
Vitamin D Council Introduces In-home Vitamin D Test Kit
It is estimated that 40 to 75 percent of all Americans are deficient in vitamin D, which has been linked to an increased risk to Alzheimer’s, cancer, cardiovascular, autoimmune, and other diseases. To help bring awareness and to test individual vitamin D levels, the Vitamin D Council has announced the release of vitamin D test ...
OTA Gears Up Far-Reaching Strategy to Boost Organic Exports
If Taka Yamaguchi has his way, athletes competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be eating organic—an ambitious plan that more than 100 of Japan’s top grocery retailers, food importers and distributors learned about at a recent Organic Trade Association (OTA) sponsored seminar in Japan. Yamaguchi, executive officer of Organic Japan, was part ...
UAS Labs Acquires Micropharma and Cardioviva Probiotics
UAS Laboratories, LLC (Wausau, Wisconsin, USA) has announced the acquisition of certain intellectual property assets of Micropharma Limited, Montreal, Canada, whose researchers have developed the award-winning probiotic strain, Lactobacillus reuteri NCIMB 30242 offered under the mark LRC and protected by two families of registered patents. The LRC strain has been shown to support healthy cholesterol ...
President Obama Signs Sunscreen Innovation Act
On November 26, President Obama sign the Sunscreen Innovation Act (SIA) into law after is was passed in the House of Representatives on November 14. The bill is designed to address a regulatory backlog that is preventing U.S. consumers from having access to advanced, effective sunscreens that are widely available in the rest of the ...
New Way To Detox? ‘Gold of Pleasure’ Oilseed Boosts Liver Enzymes
University of Illinois (U of I) scientists have found compounds that boost liver detoxification enzymes nearly fivefold, and they’ve found them in a pretty unlikely place—the crushed seeds left after oil extraction from an oilseed crop used in jet fuel. “The bioactive compounds in Camelina sativa seed, also known as Gold of Pleasure, are a ...
The Detox Challenge
Detoxing and cleansing the body is nothing new. People have been doing it for centuries for religious and cultural reasons. Detoxing can be traced as far back as 400 B.C.E. when practitioners of ayurvedic medicine often recommended diets that cleansed the body of impurities by eliminating various food groups and emphasizing a plantbased diet. Further, ...
IMMUNO GUM Now GMO-free Certified
IMMUNO GUM (Orange County, CA), the world’s first product designed to bring six key ingredients to support the immune system in chewing gum form, recently announced that all flavors of its gums have been officially certified by Gum Based Co. as non-GMO products. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), are plants or animals that have been genetically ...
Beyond Flu Season
For people of all ages, immune health is more than a seasonal category.From the young child who gets a cold at daycare, to the business professional who doesn’t have time to stay at home with the flu, the immune health category is important for people of all ages. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Protein Balance Can Help Achieve Maximum Muscle Health
Most Americans eat a diet that consists of little to no protein for breakfast, a bit of protein at lunch and an overabundance of protein at dinner. As long as they get their recommended dietary allowance of about 60 grams, it’s all good, right? Not according to new research from a team of scientists led ...
Pump It Up!
It is no secret that building and maintaining muscle mass is incredibly important to the human body. The skeletal muscles work with the bones to allow the body to move and give it strength and power. According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), strength refers to the muscle’s ability to generate force at ...
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