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Vital Proteins Responds To Industry Appetite With Release Of First Ever USDA Organic Powdered Bone Broth

- Committed to pushing the boundaries of clean collagen nutrition, Vital Proteins announces the launch of the first-of-its-kind USDA organic powdered bone broth. The industry trailblazing products – Beef Bone Broth Collagen (grass-fed, pasture-raised and unflavored) and Chicken Bone Broth Collagen (free-range and unflavored) – showcase the ever-evolving innovation of Vital Proteins' clean label collagen collection. The newly released, single ingredient Bone Broth Collagen powders are now available for purchase online in 20-serving canisters and single serving stick packs.

Leading with quality, Vital Proteins' Bone Broth Collagen (touting 9 grams of collagen per serving) is extracted from USDA organic grass-fed, pasture-raised or free-range bones that are simmered slowly for maximum nutritional potency. The result is a pure, nourishing collagen-rich powder packed with clean protein, natural chondroitin sulfates, and other vital nutrients – the same nutritional profile found in traditional bone broths. Unflavored and soluble in hot liquids, these expertly crafted bone broth powders are the perfect addition to any savory dish or drink.
Not just a clean source of protein, Bone Broth Collagen is a natural nutrient that helps to boost the immune system, support joint health, enhance skin hydration, and promote digestion and gut health – a head-to-toe wellness all-star and one vital building block toward looking and feel your best.
This spring/summer, the brand's collection of clean collagen nutrition continues to expand, adding to its lineup a trio of spa-inspired Collagen Beauty Waters, a pro series performance line, and its first foray into vegetarian-friendly products.
Vital Proteins' Non-GMO, gluten free and Whole30 Approved collagen-based elixirs range in price from $25 to $115. Shop the complete collection online through our website or at over 1,500 independent retailers across the country, including 300+ Whole Foods stores and 790+ Vitamin Shoppe retailers nationwide. For more information on where to find Vital Proteins, please visit our store locator.
About Vital Proteins®  
Founded on the belief that whole-food-based nutrition containing collagen is essential for one's overall health, fitness, and wellbeing, Vital Proteins® is dedicated to providing 100% natural, whole food proteins using sustainable, clean practices. The company produces a variety of collagen offerings made from pasture-raised, grass-fed cows, and wild caught, Non-GMO Project Verified marine collagen. For more information, please visit www.vitalproteins.com.
About Vital Proteins' Bone Broth Collagen (Unflavored Beef)  Crafted from USDA Organic bones, Vital Proteins' Unflavored Beef Bone Broth Collagen is sustainably sourced from grass-fed, pasture-raised cattle and simmered slowly to extract the maximum amount of nutrients. This simple antibiotic and hormone free formula results in a light, nourishing broth packed with collagen protein for overall digestive support, increased joint strength, and hair, skin and nail health. Per serving: 9 grams of protein, 390 milligrams of chondroitin sulfate, 50 milligrams of hyaluronic acid, 40 calories.
10 ounces, 28 servings: $65; Stick pack box, 20 servings: $65
About Vital Proteins' Bone Broth Collagen (Unflavored Chicken)  USDA Organic, free-range chicken bones are the single ingredient behind Vital Proteins' clean, antibiotic and hormone free Unflavored Chicken Bone Broth Collagen. A slow simmering process allows for maximum nutritional potency within a pure collagen protein formula for digestion and gut health, joint support and strength, and overall hair, skin and nail health. Per serving: 9 grams of protein, 267 milligrams of chondroitin sulfate, 50 milligrams of hyaluronic acid, 40 calories.
10 ounces, 28 servings: $59; Stick pack box, 20 servings: $59

CONTACT: For additional information on Vital Proteins, please contact Shannon Race at (224) 544-9110 ext. 7630 / shannon.race@vitalproteins.com.

The Best Foods for your Liver

Eat these regularly to take care of one of your body's most essential organs. 

Kale, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage are powerful brassica vegetables that contain high levels of sulfur, which supports your liver in its detoxification process and helps trigger it to remove free radicals and other toxic chemicals.

Dandelion is another good dark leafy green. One of its chemical components, taraxacin, is believed to stimulate the digestive organs and trigger the liver and gallbladder to release bile, which supports digestion and fat absorption.

http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/wellbeing/best-foods-your-liver?cid=socWB_20150725_49713556&adbid=10153580599654642&adbpl=fb&adbpr=165599879641

Vital Proteins Responds To Industry Appetite With Release Of First Ever USDA Organic Powdered Bone Broth

CHICAGO, April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Committed to pushing the boundaries of clean
collagen nutrition, Vital Proteins announces the launch of the first-of-its-kind USDA
organic powdered bone broth. The industry trailblazing products – Beef Bone Broth Collagen
(grass-fed, pasture-raised and unflavored) and Chicken Bone Broth Collagen
 (free-range and unflavored) – showcase the ever-evolving innovation of
 Vital Proteins' clean label collagen collection. The newly released, single
 ingredient Bone Broth Collagen powders are now available for purchase
online in 20-serving canisters and single serving stick packs.

Leading with quality, Vital Proteins' Bone Broth Collagen (touting 9 grams
 of collagen per serving) is extracted from USDA organic grass-fed,
pasture-raised or free-range bones that are simmered slowly for maximum
nutritional potency. The result is a pure, nourishing collagen-rich powder
 packed with clean protein, natural chondroitin sulfates, and other vital
nutrients – the same nutritional profile found in traditional bone broths.
 Unflavored and soluble in hot liquids, these expertly crafted bone
 broth powders are the perfect addition to any savory dish or drink.
Not just a clean source of protein, Bone Broth Collagen is a natural
nutrient that helps to boost the immune system, support joint health,
 enhance skin hydration, and promote digestion and gut health –
a head-to-toe wellness all-star and one vital building block toward
looking and feel your best.
This spring/summer, the brand's collection of clean collagen nutrition
 continues to expand, adding to its lineup a trio of spa-inspired Collagen
Beauty Waters, a pro series performance line, and its first foray into
 vegetarian-friendly products.
Vital Proteins' Non-GMO, gluten free and Whole30 Approved
collagen-based elixirs range in price from $25 to $115. Shop the
complete collection online through our website or at over 1,500
 independent retailers across the country, including 300+ Whole Foods
 stores and 790+ Vitamin Shoppe retailers nationwide. For more
 information on where to find Vital Proteins, please visit our store locator.
About Vital Proteins®  
Founded on the belief that whole-food-based nutrition containing
collagen is essential for one's overall health, fitness, and wellbeing,
Vital Proteins® is dedicated to providing 100% natural, whole food
proteins using sustainable, clean practices. The company produces a
variety of collagen offerings made from pasture-raised, grass-fed cows,
 and wild caught, Non-GMO Project Verified marine collagen. For more
 information, please visit www.vitalproteins.com.
About Vital Proteins' Bone Broth Collagen (Unflavored Beef)  Crafted from USDA Organic bones, Vital Proteins' Unflavored Beef Bone
 Broth Collagen is sustainably sourced from grass-fed, pasture-raised cattle
and simmered slowly to extract the maximum amount of nutrients. This
simple antibiotic and hormone free formula results in a light, nourishing broth
 packed with collagen protein for overall digestive support, increased
joint strength, and hair, skin and nail health. Per serving: 9 grams of protein,
 390 milligrams of chondroitin sulfate, 50 milligrams of hyaluronic acid, 40 calories.
10 ounces, 28 servings: $65; Stick pack box, 20 servings: $65
About Vital Proteins' Bone Broth Collagen (Unflavored Chicken)  USDA Organic, free-range chicken bones are the single ingredient behind
 Vital Proteins' clean, antibiotic and hormone free Unflavored Chicken Bone
Broth Collagen. A slow simmering process allows for maximum nutritional
potency within a pure collagen protein formula for digestion and gut health,
 joint support and strength, and overall hair, skin and nail health. Per serving:
 9 grams of protein, 267 milligrams of chondroitin sulfate, 50 milligrams of hyaluronic acid, 40 calories.
10 ounces, 28 servings: $59; Stick pack box, 20 servings: $59

New Data Shows Food and Beverage Company Health & Wellness Initiatives Reached More than 11 Million Americans in 2016

Scope and Impact Verified by City University of New York School of Public Health

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthy Weight Commitment
 Foundation (HWCF) today released new data showing the eleven food and beverage
companies participating in the Commitment to Healthy Communities (CHC) program
invested more than $30 million in community-based health and wellness initiatives that
 reached more than 11 million Americans in 2016.  The CHC data was reviewed and
 confirmed by the City University of New York School of Public Health (CUNY). 

"Food and beverage companies have a strong commitment to providing consumers
 with the products, tools and information they need to achieve a healthy diet and active
 lifestyle," said Becky Johnson, Executive Director of the Healthy Weight Commitment
Foundation.  "These year-one results are an impressive start, and will be used by CHC
and its member companies to expand the effectiveness of their investment in a healthier future."
"This data is very important because it provides a great baseline that will help us track
and improve the effectiveness of the private sector's community-based health and
wellness programs moving forward," said Terry T-K Huang, PhD, MPH, CPH and
 Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.  The year-one
results show not only progress and promise, but the need for continued work."
The 2016 data captures the scope and impact of health and wellness programs
 developed by CHC's participating companies. Report's Executive Summary shows:

• 11 food and beverage companies delivered 38 community-based health and wellness programs in 2016.
• Participating companies spent more than $30 million on community-based health and wellness programs in 2016.
• Those 38 programs reached 11.2 million Americans with tools and information to help them achieve a healthy diet and active lifestyle.
• 34,700 schools across America were reached with health & wellness tools and materials.
• Participating company employees conducted more than 50,000 volunteer hours.
• Participating companies donated 420 million total servings of food to local communities.
• The health and wellness programs facilitated 1.6 million hours of physical activity.

CHC is a novel approach designed to fully leverage the strengths of the public sector
(including academia) and the private sector in pursuit of a common goal — reducing the
 prevalence of childhood obesity within a generation. It was created by HWCF and CUNY
to evaluate corporate-community investment in healthful eating and active living programs
 and catalyzes multi-sector action toward collective impact on community health. 
The goal of CHC is to assess corporate programs and use scope and impact data to
 build a catalogue of best practices and concepts companies can use to move toward
implementation of impactful new and better programs.  An independent panel of experts
oversaw the development of CHC's framework for evaluating company strategies and
programs that promote healthy lifestyles in communities across the country. Some of the
world's largest and most recognized food companies are participating, including
General Mills, the Kellogg Company, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé,
 The J.M. Smucker Company, Campbell Soup Company and others.
"CHC is harnessing the collective strengths of the public and private sectors to
 develop a roadmap for addressing obesity and helping children and adults
 achieve a healthy and active lifestyle," concluded Ms. Johnson.

Read the full version of the CHC final report here.

About the Healthy Weight Commitment FoundationThe Healthy Weight
 Commitment Foundation (HWCF) is a broad-based not-for-profit organization
whose mission is to help reduce obesity, especially childhood obesity, by
encouraging positive and permanent lifestyle changes among school-aged children
 and their families. The Foundation develops and implements innovative and
collaborative educational, marketplace and community solutions with its coalition
of 300 corporate and not-for-profit partners.  Through its free, award-winning
Together Counts™ healthy lifestyle school curriculum, the Foundation has reached
 more than 44 million students in the U.S. As the first commitment to former
First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative and verified by the Robert
 Wood Johnson Foundation, the HWCF's food and beverage company members
 gave consumers more lower calorie options by removing 6.4 trillion calories
 from their products– surpassing their pledge by more than 400% three years
ahead of schedule. In 2016, they expanded their programming to Colombia,
Mexico and Brazil.

Contact: Sean McBride
202.309.3050
smcbride@dsmstrategic.com

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN BONE BROTH

Bone broth is a very nutritious food that you should be eating, if you have issues with allergies and skin problems. For hundreds of years, people in various cultures have relied on bone broth for its nutrition and ability to prevent a symptoms of leaky gut.

http://juicing-for-health.com/diy-bone-broth-to-alleviate-leaky-gut-syndrome

Waiting for emergency care - how long is too long?

New study sheds light on an old problem in Canada's hospitals and suggests that strategies to shorten wait times should be considered By Alan Katz and Jennifer Enns EvidenceNetwork.ca WINNIPEG, Man./Troy Media/ - Canada's emergency departments are very busy. Every year, Canadians make about 16 million visits to emergency rooms and more than one million Canadians are admitted to hospital through emergency departments. Given how complex it is to assess, treat and admit this large and variable population to hospital, it likely comes as no surprise that nearly all emergency department patients spend some of their time waiting. Emergency department wait times are a matter of concern for Canadians. We wonder if we, or our loved ones, will have to wait in pain or discomfort for hours before being seen. Or if a life-threatening condition could get worse while we wait. Most of us have been there: wondering what's taking so long and hoping they'll call our name next. No one likes waiting, especially for urgent care. Several research studies have explored the factors that contribute to wait times. A few studies have shown that emergency departments can become overwhelmed by the number of patients arriving for care. Emergency medicine clinicians and leaders often point to hospital overcrowding as the main culprit for longer waits because patients waiting to be admitted occupy stretchers that would otherwise be available to new patients. These observations highlight important opportunities to improve wait times. But one aspect of emergency care that hasn't been well studied is the time it takes to assess patients' conditions once they've been seen by a practitioner in the emergency department. How long patient assessment takes depends partly on how sick the patient is. But it can also be influenced by other factors, such as the need for blood tests, X-rays or consultation with other health-care specialists. So how long do we wait for care? A recent study led by Dr. Malcolm Doupe at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy provides a detailed picture of the many factors affecting Winnipeg's emergency department wait times - and studies the patient assessment period for the first time. The study team used the relatively new Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to track patients as they move through emergency from their initial assessment (triage) to treatment, and then to hospital admission or discharge. They found that Winnipeg emergency departments function moderately well in most instances, even though they're often at more than 100 per cent capacity during daytime hours. Across all types of emergency departments, half the patients had a visit time of 5.1 hours or less, and half stayed longer than 5.1 hours. With a national wait time average of 4.4 hours, there's clearly plenty of room for improvement. It was better news for urgent care. The study corroborated many findings from previous studies and found wait times were very short (median wait time of six minutes) for those who needed care immediately. For less urgent conditions, wait times varied and depended on how many higher urgency patients were receiving care, and how many other lower urgency patients were waiting. But the study's most striking finding was the importance of the diagnostic testing process in determining wait times. That's a new piece of evidence that will help us find solutions. Diagnostic tests are an essential part of an emergency doctor's work, but when tests and scans were ordered, wait times for other patients began to climb significantly. For example, Winnipeg's emergency departments had periods where up to 45 per cent of treatment areas were occupied by patients waiting for X-rays or other tests. During these peak periods, wait times for patients with moderate to less urgent conditions could increase from 15 minutes to as much as five hours. These findings indicate that new strategies to shorten wait times should be considered. Could processes within the emergency department be streamlined to reduce the time it takes to get tests done? Are diagnostic tests quickly available at all hours and at all emergency departments? Are community-based providers sending patients to emergency departments to access diagnostic tests that would best be done in doctors' offices? Bringing about improvements to wait times in emergency departments will require collaboration and new approaches between leaders and experts in emergency medicine. But there's no reason we can't get there. Patients deserve no less. Alan Katz is an expert adviser with EvidenceNetwork.ca and director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. He is a practising family physician and the Research Manitoba/Heart and Stroke chair in Primary Prevention Research. Jennifer Enns is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. She has expertise in population health, health equity and knowledge translation. © 2017 Distributed by Troy Media

Sick and tired (and in pain) over health-care wait times

The Canadian Institute for Health Information annual tracking of waits for priority procedures is a reminder of how little has changed and how far we have to go

NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN:
Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal 

By Bacchus Barua
Analyst
The Fraser Institute

VANCOUVER, B.C./Troy Media/ - The Canadian Institute for Health Information's annual tracking of wait times for priority procedures is out and the news is not good.

Contrary to the CIHI news release's sugar-coated headline that "Most Canadians receive priority procedures within medically acceptable wait times," the report is actually another reminder of how little has changed and how far we have to go.

While there's value in CIHI's measurement, its report focuses primarily on patient wait times for only five "priority procedures," and in a very limited sense. For example, the report doesn't include the time it takes to get an appointment with a specialist. And it uses remarkably long benchmarks for acceptable time frames (six months for hip and knee replacements, for example).

Even so, the report concludes that only three out of four Canadians received treatment within the medically recommended wait time. This means that one out of four Canadians - 25 per cent - did not receive treatment within the generous benchmarks used in the report. Worse, the situation has deteriorated since last year when "only" one out of five Canadian patients - 20 per cent - didn't receive timely treatment.

More bad news: the report's five-year trend analysis shows deterioration in access for three of five procedures (hip replacement, knee replacement and cataract surgery) since 2012. Only wait times for hip fracture repair have improved over the five-year period, although they were actually slightly worse in 2016 than to 2015.

In fact, the only legitimate silver lining is that 97 to 98 per cent of patients consistently received radiation therapy treatment within 28 days. So, thankfully, patients waiting for cancer treatment seem to receive therapy within four weeks (not including delays in seeing a specialist).

But what about everyone else?

While governments in Canada still don't generally report comprehensive and inter-provincially comparable information on wait times for most medically-necessary procedures, more detailed statistics are available. For example, the Fraser Institute's most recent annual survey of physicians in Canada found that patients could expect to wait 20 weeks from general practitioner referral to treatment for medically-necessary treatments across 12 specialties (including orthopedics, neurosurgery, urology and otolaryngology). This wait time was the longest ever measured by the survey and more than twice as long as the waits in 1993 (9.3 weeks), when the first national estimate of wait times was produced.

Worse, when compared to other universal health-care systems around the world, Canada consistently ranks last or next to last on several important indicators of timely access to care. For example, the U.S.-based Commonwealth Fund (in conjunction with CIHI) recently released the results of their survey of adults in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States - all countries with universal health-care systems (except, arguably, the U.S.). Canada ranked worst in terms of the ability to get a same-day or next-day appointment when sick, the wait for treatment in an emergency department, the wait to see a specialist and the overall wait for all elective surgery.

Yet in the face of this failure, patients in Canada have no recourse. Due to federal and provincial laws, it's extremely difficult for patients to escape these inordinately long wait times. Instead, they're often faced with the unhappy choice of waiting in pain while their situation deteriorates or leaving the country to access timely treatment.

Wait times have become the Canadian health-care system's defining feature. This despite years of spending increases and continued promises from provincial and federal governments to do something about it.

Nice headlines pretending otherwise do Canadians a disservice.

It's time we all got honest about health care and started exploring policy options to improve our system.

Bacchus Barua is an analyst at the Fraser Institute.

© 2017 Distributed by Troy Media

SMART CELLARS AT ENOLITECH FOR WINE-GROWING THAT LOOKS TO THE FUTURE

9-12 April 2017 alongside Vinitaly and Sol&Agrifood

THE 20^th EDITION SEES EXHIBITORS UP BY 30% FROM 15 COUNTRIES

The International Exhibition of Wine-Growing and Cellar Techniques & Olive-Growing and Olive Oil Technologies expands its range of services, especially as regards information technology, to optimise production cycles while also innovating the offering for traditional technical systems and proving that sustainability is no longer just a passing trend.

Verona, 27 March 2017 – An increase of 30% in exhibitor numbers compared to 2016 ensures that Enolitech 2017 will be even more impressive and complete as regards its offering of technologies, technical systems and services for the wine and olive oil sectors, joined this year by craft beers. The approximately 200 exhibitors attending this year from 15 countries could only be accommodated by expanding the Hall to almost 9,000 square metres gross.

Scheduled 9-12 April (www.enolitech.it) in conjunction with Vinitaly and Sol&Agrifood (for whose exhibitors it is a technical service event), Enolitech this year celebrates 20 editions. After accompanying the evolution of wine and oil sectors starting off from activities in the field, over time the show has expanded the service sector in keeping with the needs of companies. Innovations this year largely involve exhibitors and the products on show.

Companies taking part - including some of the most important in the sector - originate not only from Italy but also the United States, France, Italy, Austria, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Spain, Ukraine, China, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, San Marino, Serbia and Switzerland. The purpose of their attendance at Enolitech is to get in touch with operators from all around the world: there were 38,000 visitors in 2016 (21% international).

Some of the most innovative proposals include customised and turnkey solutions for wine cellars 4.0 designed as futuristic control rooms connecting machinery, people and systems to optimise production processes and improve business efficiency and profitability. Similarly, an expanding number of increasingly specialised management software packages is also available.

Even packaging is evolving and becoming increasingly important. Made using recyclable materials, designed to protect product quality during transport, easy to handle and adaptable to world-wide logistics to meet the needs of small and large companies alike.

Moving up the supply chain to vineyards and olive groves, organic fertilizers come to the fore; equally, all agricultural activities are by now increasingly environment-friendly thanks to the recovery of all processing waste, from pruning to silicon paper labels applied to bottles.

The range of resins and industrial floorings is larger than ever, with leading companies in the food industry increasingly turning their interest to wine and olive oil producers.

Technologies and technical systems see major space dedicated to filling equipment, stoppers in cork, glass or synthetic materials, and bottles - including designer proposals - ready for sublimation, with equipment to do so directly on site thereby making it possible to customise product packaging. The importance of image is confirmed by the presence of a large number of companies specialising in the production of labels, with attractive solutions that also "decorate" bottles, provide information to protect consumers and promote the product.

Enolitech provides operators in the horeca with the tools of the trade such as professional furnishing and utensils, as increasingly refined design for air-conditioned showcases for wine, delicatessen meats and cheese, blown and polymer glasses, corkscrews and ice buckets.

Having come massively to the fore in recent years within Sol&Agrifood, the International Quality Agro-Food Exhibition held alongside Enolitech and Vinitaly, craft beers are coming increasingly to the attention of suppliers of brewery technology, with growing attendance at the event in Verona.