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Growing awareness of the connection between mind, body and spirit makes a concept like Pharmaca all the more relevant. What Pharmaca is trying to do is play a very important role that's somewhere between being a retailer and a health care provider...
When the last Farm Bill passed in 2002, organic was still getting its act together. Cut to present day, and the difference is dramatic. Now the industry and its agent, the Organic Trade Association, have adjusted to the category's Oscar-winning...
Consumers rarely follow the minutiae of federal legislation, in large part because it's a slow process, and not very exciting at that. So, there was little public awareness greeting the Food and Drug Administration's announcement that best...
Priced out of Organic, yet still wanting to tap into the red-hot specialty meat market, retailers like Don Rellstab increasingly find themselves stuck in the middle. That may sound like a tough position. But for Rellstab, manager of Pennington...
The health care services at Ukrop's Super Markets rival those offered by many medical facilities. Stores offer one-on-one nutrition counseling; screenings for glucose, osteoporosis and blood pressure; diabetes education; and classes keyed in to...
At nearly $15 billion in U.S. sales last year, bottled water can be found everywhere. So can the bottles and that's what has environmentalists fighting to reduce the approximately 38 million plastic containers that are discarded every year. Smart...
Functional beverages are moving beyond the taurine- and caffeine-fueled performance quaff to more sophisticated formulations that target specific health conditions. It's a milestone in an already booming functional foods market: Naked Juice just...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a report this summer stating it would begin looking into the need for regulations governing nanotechnology. The agency currently provides no oversight, though the technology is already used in...
Never before have consumers had so many icons, symbols and logos devoted to improving their eating habits. Sensible Solutions, low-fat, SmartSpot, gluten-free, and all the other branded and generic guidance is meant to make healthful shopping...
Antibiotic free is the buzzword for a lot of poultry producers venturing into the natural chicken market. But the term is almost old hat at Bell & Evans, the pioneer that put natural chicken on the map. At Bell & Evans' headquarters in...