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Research Findings for Metabolic Syndrome

Dear Friends Emerging science supports therapeutic roles for berries to prevent and reduce metabolic syndrome. Add any of our berry collection of supplements to decrease risk markers – to every mea...

Healthy Aging?

Dear Friends As it stands, chronic degenerative diseases are prevalent, not only in the Western world, but also in countries that adopt our dietary habits. In fact, children born in the U.S. today ...

Coronary Heart Disease

Dear Friends The number one cause of death for men and women in the US is Coronary Heart Disease (CHD).  And, the leading cause for CHD is Metabolic Syndrome. One-quarter of the American population...

Crohn’s Disease

Dear Friends Crohn’s Disease is thought to result from a complex interactions between environmental factors, the gut microbes, the genetic background of the patient, and their immune system. It is ...

The Power of Diversity in our Diet

Dear Friends, Diversity  seems to be a particularly pungent word for this day and age.  Consider the following: (1) Appreciation for cross-cultural diversity as our world becomes smaller and smalle...

Brain Food for 2015

Happy New Year Everyone! Brain food! Remember there’s 15% off all our products until January 7th, 2015.  Just use the coupon code HOLIDAY15 at checkout to apply our seasonal savings gift. Why berri...

Attention! The Therapeutic Food Recipes for Health.

Last week we began sharing our collective recipes—yours and ours—that we have shared and exchanged over the last decade. Last week we brought new research to help out in the Colds and Flu season (f...

Good Probiotic for the Cold & Flu Season

Since the cold and flu season is upon us, let me share a large study that examines probiotics use to shorten the duration of a cold! King et al.’s (2014) meta-analysis research on the effectiveness...

The Power of Good Probiotics

When we think of food as medicine, right at the top of this list should be the health building power of fermented foods.  Our gastrointestinal microbiome thrives with the support of friendly, healt...

Eat Your Greens

Cruciferous vegetables are packed with phytochemicals that have health giving power.  In last week’s Forward Thinking we discussed how cruciferous vegetables prime our immune system and thereby pro...