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Should We Take Any Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic?
The power of the “eat more” food environment can overcome our conscious controls. Food and beverage companies frame body weight as “a matter of personal choice.” Even when we aren’t distracted, the power of the “eat more” food environment may sometimes overcome our conscious controls of overeating. One look around the room at a dietician…
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King Kongin Energy Drinks | Prepared Foods
King Kongin LLC entered the energy drink market with the launch of King Kongin, an all-natural coffee substitute made with 100% natural ingredients. Available in four flavors — Sparkling Blue Raspberry, Sparkling Peach Mango, Sparkling Watermelon Strawberry and Sparkling Candy — the King Kongin lineup has zero sugar, calories and carbs, containing premium natural ingredients…
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UC seeks toddler volunteers for milk study – Food Blog
UC researchers will study effects of whole milk and low-fat milk on toddlers’ health and development. Researchers to study whether whole or low-fat milk is best for toddlers San Francisco Bay Area toddlers who drink cow’s milk are being sought to participate in a 12-month study by UC Nutrition Policy Institute, a part of University…
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Best Robin Sharma Quotes -The STRIVE
Napoleon Hill is one of the most influential authors of the past century, and it’s all because he set out to discover exactly how ordinary everyday people (like us) could go about finding success and riches in our lives. Part of his success stemmed from the following his own advice. Advice that he was more…
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Red Bull Sugarfree Watermelon, Strawberry Apricot
Red Bull expanded its offerings in its zero-sugar lineup, launching two new Red Bull Sugarfree Editions. The Red Bull Red Edition Sugarfree with the taste of Watermelon and the Red Bull Amber Edition Sugarfree with the taste of Strawberry Apricot will join the original Red Bull Sugarfree and Red Bull Zero in this expansion of…
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The 411 on Statins
The cholesterol-lowering statin drug Lipitor has become the best-selling drug of all time, generating more than $140 billion in global sales. This class of drugs garnered so much enthusiasm in the medical community that some U.S. health authorities facetiously proposed they be added to the public water supply like fluoride is. One cardiology journal even…
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New York is Suing One of the Country’s Largest Meat Processors for Greenwashing
JBS USA is one of the largest meat processors in the world, self-reportedly generating 32 billion pounds of product each year. A few years ago, JBS announced that it would “achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.” Typically, this is understood to mean reducing as much pollution as possible, while undertaking climate benefitting measures to…
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Top 25 Quotes From The Science of Getting Rich
‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ has been ranked as one of the best Personal Finance books of all-time. And with over 30 million copies sold in over 90 different countries its fair to say that the book has been well received. The author of this best-selling book, is none other than Robert Kiyosaki, who has a…
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Bloom Nutrition’s Bloom Sparkling Energy Drinks
Bloom Nutrition unveiled Bloom Sparkling Energy, the brand’s first ready-to-drink (RTD) canned beverage. “Our mission is to help everyone bloom into their best selves, and energy consistently comes up as a key concern for Bloom consumers,” said Mari Llewellyn, co-founder of Bloom Nutrition, in a statement. “We heard our community’s demands for an energy drink…
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The Stroke Risk of Vegetarians
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke in vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk. “When ranked in order of importance, among the interventions available to prevent stroke, the three most important are probably diet, smoking cessation, and blood pressure control.” Most of us these days are doing pretty…