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Healthy Nation Coalition Details Persistent Failures of DGA
In an open letter to government officials, the Healthy Nation Coalition described the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) as a failed policy. The letter from concerned scientists, nutrition professionals and consumers is addressed to the Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. The letter asserts that these recommendations contribute to ...
Dr. Rita Bettenburg Receives Living Legend Award from NCNM and OANP
National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) and the Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OANP) recently honored Rita Bettenburg, ND, with the organizations’ highest honor, the 2014 Living Legend award. The award was conferred at a banquet held Dec. 6 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel. The award recognized Dr. Bettenburg’s outstanding leadership, commitment to ...
VRM Media Acquires “Fitness Trainer” Magazine
VRM Media (East Brunswick, NJ, www.vrmmedia.com), a leading provider of business magazines, websites and e-newsletters for the health and natural products industry, has announced its acquisition of Fitness Trainer magazine from the Mallarina Sales Corporation. Fitness Trainer (fitnesstrainermag.uberflip.com/t/47105), founded in 2012 by Robert B. Rose, is a digital business magazine for personal trainers and other ...
Cell Science Systems Launches Affordable Telomere Testing
Cell Science Systems, Corp. (Deerfield Beach, FL), one of the very few labs to offer telomere length testing, has launched its new version of this test at an affordable price. Knowing your telomere length is important because it directly relates to health and longevity. Telomere length testing has recently become of wider interest following a study ...
Vitamin D Council Introduces In-home Vitamin D Test Kit
It is estimated that 40 to 75 percent of all Americans are deficient in vitamin D, which has been linked to an increased risk to Alzheimer’s, cancer, cardiovascular, autoimmune, and other diseases. To help bring awareness and to test individual vitamin D levels, the Vitamin D Council has announced the release of vitamin D test ...
CRN and Skipta to Host Free Dietary Supplements Webinar
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has announced the next in its series of free webinars for pharmacists and nurse practitioners (NPs), presented in partnership with Skipta, the premier closed-loop social networking platform for health care professionals. These webinars, available to members of the Pharmacist Society and Generation NP communities, are part of CRN’s ongoing ...
President Obama Signs Sunscreen Innovation Act
On November 26, President Obama sign the Sunscreen Innovation Act (SIA) into law after is was passed in the House of Representatives on November 14. The bill is designed to address a regulatory backlog that is preventing U.S. consumers from having access to advanced, effective sunscreens that are widely available in the rest of the ...
The Many Benefits of Detoxification
Whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, we take in numerous toxins on a daily basis, according to Holistic Health News, and they can be in the form of household products, cigarette smoke, junk food, pesticides on vegetables, air pollution and a host of other unpleasant elements that we often ...
Report: Self-Acupressure Can Help Relieve Constipation
New research from the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine shows how Eastern and Western medicine can blend to find a solution to the common medical problem of constipation, reported Science Daily. In a randomized clinical trial, 72 percent of participants said that perineal self-acupressure, a simple ...
Free Dietary Supplement Webinar for Pharmacists and Nurse Practitioners
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) announced the next in its series of free webinars for pharmacists and nurse practitioners (NPs), presented in partnership with Skipta, the premier closed-loop social networking platform for healthcare professionals. These webinars, available to members of the Pharmacist Society and Generation NP communities, are part of CRN’s ongoing efforts to ...
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