Bigger, Brighter, Blemish-Free, and No Nutrient Density
February 21, 2023
Nutrient density in food items we eat is an extremely important issue that is beginning to pop up on the radars of consumers around the country.
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10 Ideas to Use your Third-Party Certifications
February 21, 2023
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.
Bee Free: A Health Food Brand Born to Help Win the Fight for Autism
February 21, 2023
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Certified Paleo Standards 2023
February 8, 2023
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Grain-Free Certification Standards 2023
February 7, 2023
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Ketogenic Diet Mechanisms of Action
February 2, 2023
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...
Antibiotic Resistance and the Human Microbiome
February 1, 2023
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...
Upcycled Food: An Innovative Way to Combat Food Waste
January 28, 2023
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...
Hand Sanitizers, Antimicrobials, and the Human Microbiome
January 28, 2023
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...
Gut Health 101: Gut Bacteria, the Gut Microbiota, and your Health
January 28, 2023
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...