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Jodi Rich is the Publisher of Natural Products Marketplace Magazine. She has been working in the Natural Products Industry for almost five years and has an extensive background in sales, marketing, and promotions. She graduated with a communications degree from Arizona State University, which isn't surprising because she's quite a talker. She embraces a healthy lifestyle by mastering crazy yoga poses and spending all of her hard earned money on the latest and greatest products from SunFlower Market.

Steve Myers managing editor, has been in the natural products industry since 1997, spreading news and information, and wielding his trusty red pen. Despite a degree in English literature from Arizona State, he is a closet science geek and is attracted to the blips and bleeps behind natural health. "Invincible" in college, Steve later realized pizza and beer does not make a healthy diet, and figured some serious diet change and natural remedy were order--especially liver detox.

02/08/2010

Another Reason to Drink Beer?

We beer drinkers are always happy to have a healthy reason to justify our pastime. There is the antioxidant flavonoid xanthohumol from beer, and then Karlsberg (the German brewer, not the Dutch Carlsberg) even tried to make a healthier beer to draw in more women drinkers. Its functional brew, named Karla Well-Be, was fortified with soy lecithin, folic acid and other vitamins, and it was lower in ...
02/03/2010

Natural Products Tradeshow: Minus the Sore Feet

Natural Products Marketplace announced some very exciting news this week.   We will host a Virtual Event for retail stores on Sept. 14 and 15 ...
01/27/2010

Natural Products Industry Steps Up to Support Haiti

The Natural Products Industry has stepped up to support Haiti.  Find out how your store can become more involved in relief efforts.
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01/20/2010

"Rolling Back" the Plastic Bags

It was announced this week that three northern California Walmart stores are officially charging extra for plastic bags at checkout.  Sounds like it’s time to think green and bring your own bag! ...
01/13/2010

Battle over Soy Infant Formula

A veteran product of natural foods stores, soy is recent an embattled nutrient, taking hits over its role in breast cancer and infant formula. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) created a fourteen-member committee to evaluate the risk of soy infant formula. In its most recent gathering on the subject, the panel voted to issue ...
01/05/2010

Lose Weight; Make $$$

Chances are you know someone who is pledging to lose weight as their 2010 New Year's resolution. Good news, 2010 maybe the easiest year to hold those resolutions.  Now, you can get paid to lose weight.
12/22/2009

Roasting and Toasting the Holidays

For many of us, the holidays are for enjoying family, friends and good food. The omnivores among us are really in heaven, able to at least indulge in free-range meats and organic dairy-based baked goods (maybe some omega-3 eggs?); but vegetarians and vegans are bit more limited in their holiday choices. One product I recently sampled may help these herbivores enjoy an adequately special feast.
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