• Salt Industry Shaking Away Criticism

    Updated: 2010-05-31 12:55:33
    A lengthy piece by Michael Moss of the New York Times this weekend, covers the decades long history of salt wars. The bottom line: The salt industry is working overtly and behind the scenes to fend off public-health attacks on salt, using a shifting set of tactics that have defeated similar efforts for 30 [...]

  • Make Your Flying Calories Count

    Updated: 2010-05-31 11:43:08
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Make Your Flying Calories Count May 31, 2010 06:00 by

  • The Red Tent

    Updated: 2010-05-31 03:42:08
    The Red Tent

  • Candy Expo Showcases Healthy Snacks. Indeed?

    Updated: 2010-05-29 01:23:35
    In a sign of the times, the Sweets & Snacks Expo earlier this week in Chicago focused on healthier treats. Saleswomen for Hershey Co. handed out Reese’s Minis, chocolate-peanut butter cups the size of marbles, which they touted as ideal for portion control. Nearby, staff members for candy behemoth Mars chatted up their [...]

  • Snack Bar Smackdown: Clif vs. Lara

    Updated: 2010-05-28 12:49:28
    Yesterday we compared Kellogg’s Fiber Pus to Larabar. Despite the high amount of fiber in Kellogg’s bars, the clear nutrition winner was Larabar, with a short, understandable ingredient list and no added sugar. Many readers asked about Clif bars, so here today is a comparison between Clif Banana Nut Bread and Lara Banana Bread, two very [...]

  • Energy Usage of Functional Training

    Updated: 2010-05-28 11:20:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Energy Usage of Functional Training May 28, 2010 05:20

  • Fit Links: Diet Destroyers, How To Cheat and More

    Updated: 2010-05-27 16:00:00
    : , En Español AOL.com MAIL That's Fit Main Diet Diet Diet Reviews Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot Jonny's Take Best Life with Bob Greene Fitness Fitness Workouts Fit or Fiction Fit After 40 Fit Family Fit Travel Guys' Guide Men's Fitness Running Walking We Tried it Yoga Your Personal Trainer : Joe Dowdell Celebrity Celebrity News Interviews Biggest Loser Success Motivation Success Motivation Success Stories Good , Fat and Hungry America Takes It Off Experts Jonny Bowden Joe Dowdell Bob Greene Liz Neporent Tanya Zuckerbrot Tweetmixx Send Feedback Fit Links : Diet Destroyers , How To Cheat and More Posted on May 27th 2010 10:00AM by Martha Edwards Filed Under : Fitness Print Fit Links : Diet Destroyers , How To Cheat and More There are hundreds of wonderful sites on healthy living to be

  • Satiation, Satiety, and How to Feel Satisfied!

    Updated: 2010-05-27 15:12:00
    , , Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Satiation , Satiety , and How to Feel Satisfied May

  • Comparing Kellogg’s Fiber Plus Bar to LaraBar [Inside the Label]

    Updated: 2010-05-27 12:27:22
    The healthy snackbar segment is huge and growing. It seems that manufacturers have figured out a way to dress up candy bars as healthy, and fill our craving for an anytime, anywhere treat. To be fair, there are many decent products out there, but some are not much more than glorified Snickers or Twix bars. Let’s [...]

  • Eating Healthy. But Only Half the Time

    Updated: 2010-05-26 01:03:26
    Did you know that for every dollar we Americans spend on food, about 50 cents go to grub consumed outside the home? That’s right, half of our eating money is spent in restaurants, fast food chains, coffee shops, airport and mall food courts, etc… So even if you are vigilant at the supermarket about the foods [...]

  • Fit Links: Guilt Free Treats, Low-Cal Cocktails and More

    Updated: 2010-05-25 16:00:00
    : , En Español AOL.com MAIL That's Fit Main Diet Diet Diet Reviews Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot Jonny's Take Best Life with Bob Greene Fitness Fitness Workouts Fit or Fiction Fit After 40 Fit Family Fit Travel Guys' Guide Men's Fitness Running Walking We Tried it Yoga Your Personal Trainer : Joe Dowdell Celebrity Celebrity News Interviews Biggest Loser Success Motivation Success Motivation Success Stories Good , Fat and Hungry America Takes It Off Experts Jonny Bowden Joe Dowdell Bob Greene Liz Neporent Tanya Zuckerbrot Tweetmixx Send Feedback Fit Links : Guilt Free Treats , Low-Cal Cocktails and More Posted on May 25th 2010 10:00AM by Martha Edwards Filed Under : Fitness Print Fit Links : Guilt Free Treats , Low-Cal Cocktails and More There are hundreds of wonderful sites on healthy

  • Study: Organic Not More Nutritious. So What!

    Updated: 2010-05-25 12:24:15
    The organic and conventional food camps have another new study to argue over. This one is published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: A “disappointingly small” number of well-designed studies have looked at whether organic foods may have health benefits beyond their conventional counterparts’ … Those trials showed no strong evidence that [...]

  • Imagining and creating new value in the form of creativity – what CEO’s (and your health brand customers) want

    Updated: 2010-05-25 11:56:50
    According to a new survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM’s Institute for Business Value, CEOs value “creativity” as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future. That’s creativity—not operational effectiveness, influence, or even dedication. Coming out of the worst economic downturn in their professional lifetimes, when managerial discipline and rigor [...]

  • Problems on Some Browsers

    Updated: 2010-05-24 20:52:19
    We apologize to our readers who use Safari, Internet Explorer, or some other browsers. For reasons our webmaster is trying to find out, you cannot see the comments or the right-hand navigation bar on these browsers, though the blog works fine on Firefox. We hope to have this fixed within 24 hours or less. (If anyone [...]

  • How VitaminWater XXX Uses its Ingredient List to Market Health

    Updated: 2010-05-24 12:22:13
    Ever enterprising beverage marketers will persuade normally rational people to buy colored sugar water for personal consumption, convincing them that said liquid is gloriously rich in health benefits and in some cases also uber-hip. Vitamin Water XXX is a classic example. Named for its “triple antioxidants” formula of acai, blueberry, and pomegranate flavors, the xxx signage [...]

  • The Beverage Industry Against Soda Taxes – Mom n’ Pop Shops, “Bribes”

    Updated: 2010-05-23 16:49:23
    It seems like soda tax propositions are popping up like mushrooms after spring showers across the country. And everywhere they do, the beverage industry is there, like a wild boar, ready to stomp them down. Last week, Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter wanted to raise $77 million annually from a tax on sugary soft drinks. A local [...]

  • The Real Reason Red Meat is Dangerous to your Health?

    Updated: 2010-05-22 01:12:58
    Not all red meats are created equal. Better phrased – not all red meats affect our health equally. These are the findings published recently in Circulation, the scholarly journal of the American Heart Association. Turns out that processed meats are far more likely to increase your chances of diabetes and heart disease, when compared to [...]

  • Mystery: Why Have Kids’ Peanut Allergies Tripled in a Decade?

    Updated: 2010-05-21 12:38:46
    A study published in the May 12 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, provides an alarming statistic: ...[a] research team surveyed 5,300 households in 2008 and discovered that 1.4% of children were thought to have peanut allergies, more than three times the 0.4% rate found when a similar tally was [...]

  • Not-So-Happy Meal

    Updated: 2010-05-20 14:16:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Not-So-Happy Meal May 20, 2010 08:16 by Rachel Huber MPH

  • Creating new value: five steps for health brands to earn social currency

    Updated: 2010-05-19 18:51:12
    The real title of this Fast Company article written by Ben Paynter is Five Steps for Consumer Brands to Earn Social Currency. It is based on a Vivaldi Partners/Lightspeed study of social media efforts that create true value for organizations and their customers. But there are good insights here for health brand marketers to consider [...]

  • The Truth about Acai Berries

    Updated: 2010-05-17 16:09:01
    Acai berry is actually a very powerful fruit that is good for you, but don't consume it thinking it will help you lose weight faster. Consume acai berry to help you fight off the free radicals that are damaging your body that may lead to serious diseases.

  • Fat Acceptance as Grieving: Jeanne Courtney’s NOLOSE Workshop

    Updated: 2010-05-17 06:22:53
    Lynne Murray says: I just heard of a brilliant insight and an intriguing approach to overcoming fat phobia as a grieving process from Jeanne Courtney, MFT, therapist at Feminist Therapy Associates, who will be presenting a workshop at the NOLOSE conference which will be held June 4-6 in Oakland, California. NOLOSE stands for National Organization for [...]

  • May 16, Growing Algae

    Updated: 2010-05-17 00:19:06
    Growing algae for food, biodiesel, fertilizer and cosmetics is an exciting adventure.

  • Outside category insights and ideas for health marketers: interviews with CMO Of The Year nominees

    Updated: 2010-05-14 03:11:36
    Every year, The Chief Marketing Officer Institute awards their “CMO Of The Year.” Nominees are evaluated in several categories of performance, including market orientation and customer intimacy, accountability for results, commitment to innovation, and overall contribution to the success of their company. Here (on COM.com) are interviews with each of the 10 finalists for 2009, who [...]

  • Go Nuts?!?

    Updated: 2010-05-13 17:00:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Go Nuts May 13, 2010 11:00 by Rachel Huber MPH RD Eat em

  • Fit Links: How Marriage Is Making You Fat, Salt Sinners and More

    Updated: 2010-05-11 16:00:00
    : , En Español AOL.com MAIL That's Fit Main Diet Diet Diet Reviews Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot Jonny's Take Best Life with Bob Greene Fitness Fitness Workouts Fit or Fiction Fit After 40 Fit Family Fit Travel Guys' Guide Men's Fitness Running Walking We Tried it Yoga Your Personal Trainer : Joe Dowdell Celebrity Celebrity News Interviews Biggest Loser Success Motivation Success Motivation Success Stories Good , Fat and Hungry America Takes It Off Experts Jonny Bowden Joe Dowdell Bob Greene Liz Neporent Tanya Zuckerbrot Tweetmixx Send Feedback Fit Links : How Marriage Is Making You Fat , Salt Sinners and More Posted on May 11th 2010 10:00AM by Martha Edwards Filed Under : Diet Weight Loss Print Fit Links : How Marriage Is Making You Fat , Salt Sinners and More There are hundreds of

  • Playbook for growing healthier and more prosperous brands

    Updated: 2010-05-10 14:15:44
    Here are six consumer-focused strategies important for growing healthier and more prosperous brands. The common denominator is that each of these brands are doing something special in ways that mean something special to their audiences. It’s that simple, and that complicated. 1. From assembling followers to growing participants (PatientsLikeMe) 2. From capturing customers to liberating [...]

  • American Children and Adults "Constantly Consuming" Foods and Beverages

    Updated: 2010-05-06 14:51:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG American Children and Adults Constantly Consuming Foods

  • Tasty Fat Girl Art

    Updated: 2010-05-06 07:11:34
    Lynne Murray says: Marianne Kirby at the Rotund shares some literally tasty fat girl art Y’all, that is CAKE. I get as frustrated as anyone even as I laugh and laugh and laugh at the way fatties are portrayed as being obsessed with cake (I prefer pie, she remarked sardonically) but this cake is so freaking cool. [...]

  • Is your healthcare organization a BRAND-LED business – creating greater value outside and inside?

    Updated: 2010-05-05 01:55:28
    Both Aster and Healthcare Marketing Report announced the results of their 2010 healthcare advertising award competitions this week. The timing coincided with a discussion with a prospective client who wants to more sharply define their brand idea. Because they’re not quite sure if the organization is really delivering on their messaging; or, more importantly, if [...]

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