Future Foods Will Cater to Personal Health
from CNN
Wouldn't it be great if you knew which foods you should be eating based on your own personal health profile? We know that certain foods are bad for people with particular conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes. Advising a generally healthy person on foods that will prevent future disease, on the other hand, is far more complicated, and represents one of the challenges for scientists working in food science. More
Book Your Hotel Room Today for Natural Products Day
from Natural Products Association
Excitement is building for the Natural Products Association’s 12th annual Natural Products Day, Tuesday, March 24, in Washington, D.C. It’s a great way to establish valuable relationships with the legislators who represent you in Congress, particularly the more than 65 new members of Congress. There’s still time to register for Natural Products Day, but hotel rooms are filling fast and time is running out to take advantage of the group discount at our event hotel, L’Enfant Plaza Hotel. Call (800) 635-5065 to make your hotel reservations by February 27, 2009. For full details and to register online for the event, visit www.naturalproductsassoc.org/site/PageNavigator/npd_registration. More
Natural MarketPlace Announces Senator Tom Harkin
from Natural Products Association
The official show of the Natural Products Association is taking place July 9-11, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV. The Saturday SuperSession features Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate panel that funds medical research, health care and education initiatives. Visit www.naturalmarketplaceshow.com for details and to register today!
| Whom Do You Admire? Nominate Them
The nomination period for the 2010 Natural Products Association awards is open until Tuesday, March 31. If you wish to nominate a company, individual, or yourself for one of the awards, download the nominations packet at www.naturalproductsassoc.org/awardnominations and return the submission form and any supporting materials to the association. Nominations are being accepted for the Burton Kallman Scientific Award, the President’s Award, the Rachel Carson Environmental Award, the Statesman/Stateswoman Award, the Industry Champion Award (formerly the Crusader Award), the Clinician Award, and the Socially Responsible Retailer Award. Don’t miss this opportunity to give recognition to the peers you admire for their contributions to the natural products industry. Have any questions? Call (202) 223-0101 ext. 104.
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Healthy Competition for the Top FDA Post
from The Washington Post
The Obama administration, though a tad slow on nominations this month, is moving with some dispatch to fill the post of Food and Drug Administration chief. After all, the FDA has a huge part of the action when it comes to ensuring that the food we eat and the drugs we take are safe. And we've just tallied nine deaths and hundreds more sickened from bad peanut butter. More
Young Adults' Health is Static or Even Declining
from USA Today
Young adults today aren't any healthier than 10 to 15 years ago, and in some cases — obesity, for one — they are significantly less so, says a federal report on the nation's health released. The annual report, from the National Center for Health Statistics, is based on the most recent data available from a variety of health sources. More
Stimulus Bill Enacted with Obama's Signature
from Modern Healthcare
President Barack Obama has signed a $787 billion economic stimulus bill that promises to make a "down payment" on health care reforms by investing billions of dollars to boost health information technology, hospital pay, Medicaid assistance to states and research projects. Obama signed the measure during a trip to the Denver area and said that "7 million Americans who lost their health care along with their jobs will continue to get the coverage they need, and roughly 20 million more can breathe a little easier, knowing that their health care won’t be cut due to a state budget shortfall." More
Seven Smart Ways to Trim Your Company’s Budget
from Inc.
Among the tips offered in this slideshow: "Take an honest look at what revenue is likely to do over the next year. Then, reduce it by 10 percent and adjust your business plan to that revenue number," says Keith McFarland, founder of McFarland Strategy Partners, and the author of The Breakthrough Company (Crown). "Don't take the coward's way out by making across-the-board cuts. Figure out where your core leverage points are in your business model and make sure these are adequately funded. More
The Best Way to Manage Customer Relationships
from Forbes
Just as your seventh-grade English teacher told you to "keep it simple, stupid," so should you apply the same K.I.S.S. principle to managing customer relationships. Not that you'd know it by all the customer relationship management, or CRM, software being peddled in this tough economy. What a waste for small companies. More
Consumers Cut Food Spending Sharply
from The Wall Street Journal
The bad economy is hitting America right in the stomach. Consumers have cut back sharply on food spending, shunning restaurants, opting for generic products over brand names, trading in lattes for home-brewed coffee and shopping for bargains. That is hurting sales and profits at many food processors, grocery chains and restaurants. More
How to Motivate Employees to Do More With Less
from Chief Learning Officer
With leaner workforces, slower sales and tighter budgets, managers and executives need to motivate their employees to do more with less, according to Suzanne Bates, author of the newly published book, Motivate Like a CEO: Communicate Your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to Act! "Managers and executives must find non-monetary ways to keep their teams motivated, and to inspire them to achieve goals and objectives with fewer people and less funding," Bates said in part. More
NIST Develops Multivitamin Reference for GMP Compliance
from NutraIngredientsUSA
A new reference material for assessing the amounts of vitamins, carotenoids, and trace elements in dietary supplements has been developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The certified reference material, named Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3280 for multivitamin/multimineral tablets, was created in collaboration with the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health. More
Wal-Mart, Kmart Stock Up on Organic Jeans
from GreenBiz
Wal-Mart and Kmart are adding full lines of organic jeans made by Washington-based Greensource to their private label clothing lines. Greensource provides T-shirts, jeans and other apparel made from a variety of greener sources, including organic cotton, bamboo and recycled polyester. More
Cellphone Makers Start Offering ‘Green’ Models
from The New York Times
Is it better to save the earth, or to save money? As the world economy drops further into crisis, more cellphone users may be confronting that choice. Until now, there have been few models available of so-called green, or environmentally friendly, mobile phones, so consumers have been able to dodge the question. More
Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Are a Viable Cost-Reduction Solution in a Downward Economy
from IndustryWeek
The environment was a very hot topic last year. In fact "going green" and "carbon footprint" were two of the 10 most overused words of 2008, according to Lake Superior State University's annual list. No industry or business sector is immune to the demand by consumers for products and services that are more eco-friendly, environmentally free and biodegradable. More
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Warning: That Mascara May be Hazardous to Your Health
from The Detroit Free Press
Now we're really getting personal. We're focused on your private place ‒ the bathroom. That's generally where you use all that soap, shampoo, lotion, deodorant, perfume, shaving cream, lipstick, eye shadow, hair gel, hairspray... It all gets applied to your body, including all the chemicals within. More
Too Much 'Joy' in Cookbook Calories?
from WebMD Health News
Calorie counts in several classic recipes have crept up over the years, and it may be time for those recipes to go back to the future. That's according to Brian Wansink, PhD, of Cornell University and Collin Payne, PhD, of New Mexico State University. "The serving size and calorie composition of classic recipes needs to be downsized to counteract growing waistlines," Wansink and Payne write in a letter published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. More
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Product Showcase: Nature’s Dog by Canus
Goat’s milk is a natural solution for our canine companions too. That’s why Canus created Nature’s Dog all-natural dog products. The new line of products includes a goat’s milk shampoo and soap bar, alcohol free goat’s milk wipes and all-natural health treats rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals. Go to www.canusgoatsmilk.com.
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Product Showcase: ProDHA
Nordic Naturals ProDHA is an excellent way to ensure adequate intake of DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid that is essential for brain, visual, and nervous system function. ProDHA is encapsulated in small, easy-to-swallow, 500 mg soft gels, and provides 50% DHA and 10% EPA. Perfect for adults and children over 7 years of age, and for pregnant and nursing women, ProDHA is available in both unflavored soft gels and great-tasting, natural strawberry-flavored soft gels, while providing the same industry-leading purity and freshness as all Nordic Naturals products. Visit www.nordicnaturals.com.
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Service Showcase: 3LINX - Bi-Coastal Order Fulfillment Solution
3LINX provides reliable and cost-saving order fulfillment (pick/pack/ship) and logistics services to manufacturers and retailers in the natural products industry. Our bi-coastal distribution centers located in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Las Vegas, Nevada, ship orders later at significant freight savings, all with real-time visibility online. Call 610.391.3100 or visit 3LINX.COM for a no obligation analysis.
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