T he U.S. Food and Drug Administraton (FDA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) don’t regulate every food label out there, which is where third parties step in and certify products, with standards that may even exceed government organizations. Types of Certifications Organic. This is a certification regulated by USDA...
What’s Selling is a monthly review of the best-selling products determined from unit sales at six natural products stores around the country, rotated from a base of selected stores. The intention is to provide indications of sales trends. If your store is interested in being included in our What’s...
If you’ve seen the documentary “What the Health” on Netflix about the healthcare, pharmaceutical and food industries, you probably found yourself saying “What the [insert desired word here].” In Michael Moore style, the producers did a good job of showing what corruption and dark marketing can do to us as...
Combing through the WholeFoods Magazine archives while writing a tribute to Stanley Jacobson, I hit pay dirt with a statement he made in 1985 during his run for the presidency of the National Nutritional Foods Association (now NPA). “This industry has been largely responsible for turning the health ‘fad’ into...
We have been discussing the importance of niacin with Dr. Andrew Saul. So far we have discussed niacin’s important, but lesser known roles including mental health, arthritis, and learning and behavior disorders. As important as these functions of niacin are, there are two more widely known functions of niacin. When...
Watching Wall Street hammer major food-retailing stocks immediately after Amazon’s June announcement to buy Whole Foods Market, I can understand why you — an independent natural products retailer — may have felt a shiver down your spine. Since then, those grocery stocks have recovered most of their losses as investors...
When consumers see that a product is certified, they may be led to believe that this automatically makes the food healthy. When it comes to products that are certified halal or kosher, the focus is not on health but on religious requirements that must be met in order for food...
What’s Selling is a monthly review of the best-selling products determined from unit sales at six natural products stores around the country, rotated from a base of selected stores. The intention is to provide indications of sales trends. If your store is interested in being included in our What’s Selling...
To coincide with the new, 10th anniversary, updated and revised edition of "The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth," I’ve decided to use this column to give you a preview of some of the foods that are new to the updated edition. The new edition has also been updated to include...
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