The Story Behind The Why We Buy
The more consumers know about the food they buy and eat, the healthier their food choices. Tell them the truth about food as medicine and they’ll begin to heal themselves.
Read MoreTag: Public Health Policy
The FDA Wants To Make Cherries, Walnuts Into Illegal Drugs
Consumer awareness about their food is outstripping companies’ ability to obscure the full story about what we eat. As a result, markets are rapidly changing to higher nutritional value foods
Read MoreWhole Grains Health Shift For School Lunches
Parents who remember their school lunches may be jealous but this is great news for kids.
Read MoreHalf Of Americans Sweet On Sodas
Diet soda users as a group experienced 70% greater increase in waist circumference compared with non-users.
Read MoreBerkeley Residents Buying Fewer Sugary Drinks and More Water Thanks to Soda Tax
Sometimes it takes an adult approach to public health policy over private profit. The early results show we’re on the right track.
Read MoreBig Fat Lies Fifteen Years Later
Fifteen years later and coconut oil, butter and saturated fats are back. They’re better understood and better appreciated. Find out what all the fat frenzy has led to and how fat can help you lose or maintain your desired weight.
Read MoreHealthy Aspirations and the Disconnect From Health Actions
Nielsen points out the disconnect between what we say we want for our health and what we actually do to ensure we have it.
Read MoreIndustrial Strength Six Sigma Health Care
Patient queues might be shortened by 91 percent while consultation time could be reduced to about a third of the time through application of six sigma techniques.
Read MoreThe Food Safety Fight Coming To Your Natural Products
If you’ve ever wondered about food safety in the natural products category this interrview explains some of the ways your natural products manufactures are coming to terms with food safety. As always, it’s more complicated than you would expect, but it’s worth taking a look at the landscape of how natural products remain natural and safe
Read MoreHealth Care Cost Savings Through Supplementation
We’re all used to hearing stories about how nutritional supplements are a waste of money or even dangerous. Now we have a study that breaks down how many billions could be saved and points out just how effective nutritional supplements can be in the move toward national wellness.
Read MoreGenetically Modified Foods Proposed as Trigger for Gluten Sensitivity
Speculation is warranted where the American food supply is concerned. One more reason to have food labeling laws and transparency in safety testing.
Read MoreStop The Trans Pacific Partnership Now
You’re reading this post via the internet. Thanks to Wiki Leaks we know that the TPP would:
Criminalize some of your everyday use of the Internet,
Force service providers to collect and hand over your private data without privacy safeguards, and
Give media conglomerates more power to fine you for Internet use, remove online content—including entire websites—and even terminate your access to the Internet.
Create a parallel legal system of international tribunals that will undermine national sovereignty and allow conglomerates to sue countries for laws that infringe on their profits.
