| Health Nutz Wellness Center holds grand opening ribbon cutting
The new Health Nutz Wellness Center in Beaumont recently held a grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting.The store specializes in organic foods and produce. It also carries organic beauty products, vitamins and herbs. In the near future a deli and juice bar will be in full operation. Get Healthy classes will be starting up in March. $1 a minute chair massages are available on Fridays and Saturdays.The health store tagline is, “It's not just our name - it's who we are!"Owners Suzanne and Michael Hathaway started to explore a healthier lifestyle when Suzanne was diagnosed with leukemia. Michael was looking for any way possible to help his wife recover from bone marrow cancer.The couple studied different avenues of lifestyle changes and came upon the vegan approach. Michael had aches and pains that didn't fit his age.
Fighting world hunger
Fire in barrels, cardboard hovels, tens of thousands of paper clips linked together and 30 hours without food helped teens at All Saints Lutheran Church come to a deeper understanding of hunger and homelessness. To raise money for World Vision, a Christian relief organization, All Saints youth went without food for 30 hours last weekend. World Vision estimates that about 29,000 children die every 30 hours because of malnutrition and starvation. One of the projects of the All Saints overnight fast was to link 29,000 paper clips into a chain to help the teens grasp the magnitude of that number. The 11 youth who participated raised $1,300 for World Vision, an amount that will be matched by other donors, said All Saints Pastor Keith Cook. "It's pretty amazing what can be done," Cook said.
Fast Food Chains Pull Calorie Data
New York diners curious to know how many calories are packed into the hamburger they just bought from White Castle or Wendy's are out of luck. The two popular fast food restaurant chains pulled posters listing calorie counts for menu items from the walls of their New York City restaurants and thus will avoid having to comply with a new mandate approved by the Board of Health that will affect thousands of New York restaurants. The rule, which goes into effect July 1, will require about 10% of city restaurants to post calorie counts beside food items listed on their menus. The measure affects mostly chain and fast food restaurants, but only those providing calorie information to customers on or after March 1. By removing any calorie information from their New York City restaurants before the legislative deadline, Wendy's and White Castle won't be held to the same standard as other fast food restaurants in the city.
Good tastes, better cause
From seafood to Chinese, the Taste of Jackson had it all Thursday evening at the Carl Perkins Civic Center. Jackson area residents were able to taste foods from about 40 restaurants all under one roof, including Outback Steakhouse, one of the first restaurants to participate in the event, and newcomers such as Market Place. .
Want A Healthy Colon? Eat A Rainbow!
Many Americans are aware of which foods are heart-healthy, but they often don't think about cooking for their colons. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in men and women in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, so it is just as important to understand how to choose colon-friendly foods. Lynn Goldstein, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., from the Jay Monahan Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has assembled her key tips on the best food choices for a healthier colon:
Choose Non-Red, Non-Processed Meat Sources of Lean Protein
-- Choose poultry, fish, eggs, soy products, beans, and whole grains for the healthiest protein sources.
-- Limit your red meat intake to special occasions like the summer barbecue or a great steak restaurant.
jojoBAR(TM) to Be Placed in More Than 200 Shaws Supermarkets
SAN DIEGO, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Just a year removed from its international debut at the 2006 Natural Products Expo West trade show, the gourmet organic food bar jojoBAR is set to become available throughout one of the largest supermarket chains in the Northeast, the bar's inventors announced Friday. According to jojoBAR co-founders Justin Hai and Dr. David Barold, the bar will be available in over 200 Shaws supermarkets, a chain located in the New England region, by the spring of 2007. This distribution deal comes less then one year after its introduction. By the spring of 2007 the gourmet organic food bar will be available in over 800 stores, up from 150 in '06. "It's been an amazing year," said Hai. "A year ago we were handing out samples to anyone who would take them.
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