Last week, I was having a conversation with the owner of a health food store in the Mobile, AL, area regarding Google Analytics. He wanted to know what he should be paying attention to amongst all of the various reports available. I understand that with 50+ reports it can get...
An estimated 23 million U.S. adults are largely following a vegetarian-inclined diet, according to a study of approximately 6,000 consumers by MMR Research Worldwide. And not surprisingly, the majority of vegetarians use dietary supplements. In fact, vegetarians are 27 percent more likely to buy vitamin and mineral supplements than...
For all the conversation about diet and nutrition, including greater awareness about the value of consuming whole foods, we nonetheless face a public health crisis that is as urgent as the former polio epidemic and as vicious as the outbreak of the 1918 influenza pandemic. I refer to the 29...
When more than 14 million Americans suffer from a chronic skin condition—a malady too few of us can spell or name—we have a public health crisis. The redness that marks this illness should color many companies with embarrassment because products continue to contain chemicals that harm the skin, aggravate...
From village medical practitioners in centuries past to today's commercial laboratories, elderberry is part of a long heritage of healing. As a traditional cure for colds and influenza, it goes back to ancient Greek and Roman times. It's long been a mainstay in homemade remedies. But elderberry (Sambucus nigra)...
When it comes to judging the severity of food allergies, here is some straightforward advice: Look at your skin, and forget about your taste buds. For, no matter how delicious or repulsive certain foods may seem to be, regardless of the signals your tongue registers to your brain about eating...
Your body is constantly regenerating itself down to every cell. Each month you renew your skin, every six weeks you have a new liver, and at any one time you have a mixture of old and new bones. So how healthy will these new body pieces and parts be?...
The Life Insurance Agent as the Champion of Personal Wellness Personal wellness is no longer the exclusive domain of doctors, nurses and nutritionists as this national conversation goes well beyond the four walls of a physician's office. With so many chronic conditions impacting the cost of medical treatment, a different...
Curious to know why—despite the rows of prescription medications, pills, powders and over-the-counter cosmetics and creams—your medicine cabinet is most likely not the single greatest concentration of chemicals in your home? If so, allow me to lead you on a guided tour of your residence, where we will enter...
NY NOW Gift ShowI walked the NY NOW Gift Show on January 31 to February 4 looking for a common thread. It wasn’t obvious. I saw a lot of do-it-yourself products like iKen watches , Wolf clocks and Hella Bitters kits and thought, “maybe,” but it wasn’t enough. I had come straight from...
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