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Can Retailers Impact Parents and the Childhood Obesity Epidemic?
As I begin to formulate my thoughts for this column, I find myself thinking about my 6- and 7-year-old boys Nick and Noah. I also think about spending my entire childhood overweight. I think about what I experienced from both a physical and psychological perspective, and I don’t want my boys to ever have to ...
Regaining Control
Expanding waistlines and staggering statistics have consumers actively seeking natural options to help get their blood sugar in line.According to the American Diabetes Association, 23.6 million children and adults have diabetes—7.8 percent of the US population. Of these, 5.7 million do not know they have the disease.Each year, about 1.6 million people aged 20 or ...
Good, Clean Living
No matter how healthily we may live our lives, exposure to toxins is unavoidable, making natural, gentle cleansing programs a necessity.Throughout history, nearly every recorded culture has, in some form or another, relied upon the natural cleansing power of herbs and other botanicals to remove toxins from the body and restore vibrant health and energy. ...
Catering to Kids
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), supplements are rarely needed in middle childhood.This is because, it explains, the body needs vitamins and minerals in only “tiny amounts,” and most of the time, a balanced diet can usually present these in sufficient quantities.But the problem is often that youngsters aren’t eating balanced diets, even ...
Immune Support: The Best Defense
Powerful as it is, the immune system cannot fend off every germ pthat comes its way. According to a Harvard Medical School Special Health report entitled “The Truth About Your Immune System,” nearly 53,000 people in the United States die of influenza or pneumonia annually, making those diseases together the eighth leading cause of death. ...
The Importance Of GMP Compliance
In essence, the Dietary Supplement Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) Final Rule 21 CFR Part 111, issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) June 2007, requires that the proper controls be in place for dietary supplements during manufacturing, packaging, labeling and holding operations. The move was supposedly in response to concerns about substandard dietary ...
The Green Scene
Recent studies show that today’s vegetables aren’t as healthy as those of yesteryear.Now is the time for shoppers to fill this nutritional void with a green foods supplement.It Used to be that simply eating vegetables gave people the nutrients they needed to attain good health. But according to a recent study coming out of the ...
An Ounce Of Prevention
There are those people with good, even excellent health coverage. These very fortunate few have the luxury of selecting who treats them, where they receive treatment and often a multitude of options from which to choose from. Then there’s everyone else,” offered Jayson Kroner, health and fitness editor with NOW Foods (Bloomingdale, IL), noting that ...
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