Third party certifications offer a great way for health food brands to connect with customers and grow their brand loyalty. Below, we outline ten different ways that health food brands can best take advantage of their certifications.
[vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content" equal_height="yes" content_placement="middle" bg_type="image" bg_override="1" parallax_content="parallax_content_value" first_background_type="image" first_background_image="85138" css=".vc_custom_1678387506110{background-color: #26366c !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1587031246731{margin-right: -50px...
[vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content" equal_height="yes" content_placement="middle" bg_type="image" bg_override="1" parallax_content="parallax_content_value" first_background_type="image" first_background_image="85138" css=".vc_custom_1675844602185{margin-top: -270px !important;background-color: #203670 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}" el_class="hide-on-mobile"][vc_column width="1/3"...
[vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content" equal_height="yes" content_placement="middle" bg_type="image" bg_override="1" parallax_content="parallax_content_value" first_background_type="image" first_background_image="85138" css=".vc_custom_1675785497164{margin-top: -270px !important;background-color: #25366b !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}" el_class="hide-on-mobile"][vc_column width="1/3"...
The ketogenic diet is best known as a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet commonly used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy in children. Despite a ketogenic diet therapy's ability to suppress refractory epilepsies for over a century, the underlying mechanisms of the ketogenic diet remain enigmatic. While the exact ketogenic diet mechanisms of action are not yet known, several hypotheses have been proposed to explain its anticonvulsant effects. Keywords: Epilepsy, ketogenic diet, metabolic...
Introduction Imagine the following scenario: You wake up on a cold winter morning feeling lethargic and slightly feverish and notice a tingling in your throat. On your way to work, you decide to pop into an urgent care clinic where the doctor, after a 10-minute checkup, prescribes a course of antibiotics for a supposed throat infection. With no laboratory tests and trusting the doctor's advice, you took the 6-day course of antibiotics. Might this be ultimately leading to the growing problem of...
In elementary school, the first environmental lesson you probably learned revolved around the importance of “the three R´s:” reduce, reuse, and recycle. Given the fact that U.S. children make up only 3.7 percent of children on the planet but have 47 percent of all toys and children’s books, the lesson of “reducing” the amount of stuff we purchase and own is probably pretty relevant to most young people in the United States and other “developed” countries. However, given the fact that the...
Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, most people probably didn’t have dozens of bottles of hand sanitizer sitting in their family medicine cabinet. You might have occasionally used hand sanitizer when you visited the doctor´s office or maybe during a trip overseas. On a day-to-day basis, most people probably washed their hands after using the bathroom, and then never thought twice about other types of hand sanitization. With the onset of COVID, however, hand sanitizer...
A few decades ago, most health recommendations were characterized by a general “germ phobia.” We knew that specific pathogens caused severe disease, so the obvious response was to combat those germs by every means possible. What followed was the complete sterilization of our lives, a collective overdose of antibiotics that has led to severe antimicrobial resistance, and a focus on hygiene that tried to mimic the sterile conditions of a surgery ward. Fast forward a couple of decades, and we are...
According to recommendations made by international diabetes guidelines, the therapy of type 2 diabetes mellitus entails both pharmaceutical and lifestyle changes [1, 2, 3] Nutritional recommendations frequently emphasize cutting back on excess carbohydrates and restricting fat intake to 20–35% of total calories, with a particular emphasis on reducing saturated fats. Conversely, some diets advocate substantially reducing your intake of carbohydrates while increasing your intake of fats, which...
