SAN BRUNO, Calif., June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- If your tummy is going through tumultuous times, it may be of benefit to find a friend in the form of a yeast-based probiotic dietary supplement. Daily stress, struggles with a poor diet, stomach upsets from travel and illness can leave your digestive system vulnerable and in need of a friend to restore digestive strength.

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"Health minded people know that the benefits of probiotics come from live microorganisms, and most often associate them with probiotic foods like yogurt, yet there is little awareness that probiotic dietary supplements are also available for those looking for efficient options to help with digestive balance," said Kerry Neville, a registered dietitian in Seattle. "A yeast-based probiotic supplement like Florastor can help to promote digestive balance naturally so it makes good health sense to add one to your daily diet," said Neville.

Why Yeast-Based Over A BacterialBased Probiotic Supplement?

Probiotics help the good organisms in your intestines to grow and get rid of the bad organisms that can disrupt normal intestinal function. Probiotic dietary supplements are grouped into two categories: yeast or bacteria, which interact differently within the body. Probiotic supplements containing bacteria are made up of different strains which are good for different tasks, so their effects may vary.

"The gut holds approximately 70-80% of the body's immune cells, so promoting digestive health has a powerful influence on optimizing overall health," added Neville. "I recommend Florastor, a friendly, yeast-based probiotic supplement, because it can withstand the harsh environment of the stomach, while many bacteria-based probiotics are destroyed by acids in the stomach before they even reach the intestines. Florastor, unlike bacterial probiotics supplements, are not compromised by antibiotic use and are more consistent in increasing the production of immunoglobulin A (IgA), the primary antibody which promotes health and helps defend against infection."

About Florastor Supplements

Florastor is the world's most widely used probiotic and is unique because it is the only yeast-based probiotic available in major retail pharmacies throughout the United States. Florastor contains active Saccharomyces boulardii lyo, a friendly yeast found naturally on the skin of the tropical fruits, lychees and mangosteens. Florastor has versatile options appropriate for adults and children as young as two months. Available in capsule form or dissolvable, kid friendly packets (both 250 mg,) Florastor is an easy way to ensure digestive health for the whole family. Florastor is available in many major retail pharmacies. For more information and for a store locator, visit http://www.florastor.com. Florastor and Florastor Kids are manufactured by Biocodex, a globally recognized and trusted pharmaceutical company. Florastor has been studied and trusted since 1953 and is the number one probiotic worldwide. Florastor is recommended by doctors around the world and has been promoting intestinal health in adults and children for over 50 years.

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MINNEAPOLIS, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Demonstrating how it can help food and beverage manufacturers, restaurant and food service operators and school nutrition experts develop products that address the nutritional needs of children, Cargill will showcase new ingredients and ideas for creating breakthrough products at the 2012 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Food Expo, June 26-28, 2012, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Visitors to the booth (#1721) can learn more about Cargill's solutions and technical expertise which enable the formulation of great tasting kid-friendly products that contain less sodium, calories and fat, and more whole grains, fiber and protein:

Other featured concepts, targeted to mom and dad, include:

Additionally, to help customers better understand the changing regulatory environment as it pertains to childhood nutrition recommendations, Cargill Regulatory Senior Scientist Kristen Dammann, Ph.D. and registered dietitian, will conduct live presentations in the booth on Tues., June 26, at 1:30 p.m. and Wed., June 27, at 11:00 a.m. These sessions will provide an overview of policies, regulations and recommendations such as the new standards for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program, Menu Labeling, Guidelines for Food Marketed to Children, and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and how they are impacting the food industry.

Cargill also will host a press conference (exclusively for members of the media) at the booth on Tues., June 26, at 1:00 p.m. to discuss new ingredient innovations, including:

If you are interested in attending, please contact Niki Larson at niki_larson@cargill.com.

About Cargill Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services.Founded in 1865, the privately held company employs 139,000 people in 65 countries.Cargill helps customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and is committed to applying its global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges wherever it does business.For more information, visit Cargill.com and its news center.

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By Duane D. Stanford - 2012-06-11T17:46:47Z

Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) has an image problem on Wall Street.

Ever since Greenlight Capital Inc.s David Einhorn dialed into a May 1 earnings conference call asking for more disclosure, investors have shunned shares of the nutritional and weight-loss supplement maker. The influential hedge-fund managers query hit right at Herbalifes marketing Achilles heel: how to keep track of inventory when much of it is sold from thousands of distributors homes and car trunks. Einhorn had dredged up skepticism that has long plagued direct sellers from Avon Products Inc. (AVP) to Tupperware Brands Corp.

Herbalife executives say they thought theyd put such concerns behind them, especially since their products increasingly are sold in so-called nutrition clubs -- shopfronts where customers can drop by to sample products and exchange weight-loss tips. These operate more like traditional retail stores, which are easier for investors to understand.

There is enough insecurity in the direct-selling model that the stock reacted significantly with the questions Einhorn raised, Chief Financial Officer John DeSimone said in a telephone interview. Its an indication we need to do a better job of educating Wall Street as to how the model works.

On the call, Einhorn asked why Herbalife stopped giving a breakdown of three groups of distributors it had previously provided. He also asked for an explanation of financial incentives given to supervisors who sign up new distributors. DeSimone, who told Einhorn he stopped providing the data because it didnt seem valuable to investors, agreed on the call to resume the disclosures.

Investors werent assuaged. Herbalife plummeted 20 percent the day of the call, on the way to its largest three-day decline since the shares began trading in December 2004. Before Einhorns query, Herbalifes share price had hit an all-time high on April 23, spurred on by a 26 percent sales surge in 2011. The shares, down 36 percent from April 30 through June 8, rose 0.1 percent to $45.10 at 1:41 p.m. in New York.

Einhorn declined to comment.

Herbalife executives will try to reassure investors by demonstrating the benefits of nutrition clubs, DeSimone said.

That should help because you can go into these nutrition clubs and see the sales channel and measure it, said Scott Van Winkle, a Boston-based analyst with Canaccord Genuity Inc.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

GOOD nutrition in the first three years of a child is crucial to ensuring his health and success in adulthood, according to a study that began in 1980 in Metro Cebu.

Anthropologist Linda Adair of the University of North Carolina, citing the results of the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS), said proper nutrition from infancy to early childhood adoes not only affect the physical growth of a child, but also his performance in school and his career as an adult.

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The CLHNS looked into the pregnancy of 3,327 women in 33 barangays in Metro Cebu between May 1, 1983 and April 30, 1984. The study traced their childbirth and the way they raised their children.

The results of the CLHNS, which was conducted by US and Philippine researchers, were presented during a forum yesterday on childhood and health, organized by the Consortium of Health Orientated Research in Transitioning Societies.

Fr. Dionisio Miranda, University of San Carlos (USC) president, said studies like the CLHNS are good bases for drafting health and nutrition policies. But he said many issues raised in the forum have not been addressed by policy-makers yet.

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Dr. Florentino Solon, former Cebu City mayor and Nutrition Center of the Philippines founder, said the results of the study should be presented in a format that policymakers can understand.

He said that in Cebu City, 500 children under the age of five die every year for various reasons.

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HOUSTON, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Labrada Nutrition, a Houston-based sports supplement and nutrition company, is about to make an even greater impact on fighting America's obesity epidemic. This month mega retailer Wal-Mart will begin offering select Labrada Nutrition Lean Body to Go! 14 oz. Ready-to-Drink Protein Shakes in several flavors, available nationwide. The full rollout of the Lean Body to Go! products will be completed July 3. The national offering of the shakes means approximately 14 million people* will have access to better nutrition at the Wal-Mart value price, daily. And the real buzz, at least from Labrada's perspective, is the opportunity to work with the world's largest retailer in such a powerful way.

Lee Labrada, CEO of Labrada Nutrition and best-selling author of The Lean Body Promise, says having the opportunity to work with Wal-Mart means potentially touching millions of new people every year. As the former Fitness Czar for the City of Houston, credited with helping the city shed its "fattest city" title, he is hopeful it could mean a positive dent in the most recent sobering statistics regarding the nation's rising obesity epidemic.

"Recently, the American Journal of Preventative Medicine released a study predicting a 42 percent obesity rate by 2030," says Labrada. "As a father, husband, businessman and athlete, this is deeply concerning to me, especially when the study only included adults, and the number is likely to increase when children are included. But I hope with larger distribution channels for great nutritious products, the door will open to more people giving a healthier lifestyle a try and that it will stick."

The secret to changing the obesity patterns in America will hinge on people making better lifestyle choices, and part of it is knowing how to read labels properly, researching what is in foods before consuming them, and overall, being better stewards of our own health.

"It's not always easy to make wise food choices when you're on the go," says Labrada. "So Labrada products are a great alternative when whole foods are not available or when someone is looking to boost their protein intake to help support the muscles, weight loss, and metabolism. I'm certainly in favor of anything that helps people learn how to eat, space out their meals, and utilize responsible portion control."

The nutritional breakdown of the Lean Body to Go! 14 oz. Ready-to-Drink Protein Shakes Wal-Mart will carry is superb: 25 grams of high quality protein, zero grams of sugar, lactose-free, and only 190 calories.

Labrada Nutrition products have won numerous taste and quality awards over the years and continues setting higher standards. Labrada continues to be on the forefront of new product development and remains active in community outreach. Currently all lines of Labrada Nutrition products are distributed nationally and internationally in health food stores, fitness centers and gyms and other fine retail outlets. They can be found on the Web at http://www.labrada.com.

About Lee Labrada

Lee Labrada is president and CEO of Labrada Nutrition, a best-selling author and IFBB Hall of Fame athlete. He is also one of the most celebrated bodybuilding legends of all time. Lee is the former Fitness Czar for the City of Houston, credited with helping Houston shed its "fastest city" title. He has appeared on the covers bodybuilding and fitness magazines and has been featured on CNBC, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and ESPN.

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BAIS CITY, Negros Oriental, Philippines -- It was three o'clock in the morning when father and son sipped coffee made from toasted rice as they broke the steamed cassava cake they called "balanghoy." The flicker of flames from a gasera barely made out their faces. Hostile terrains made it difficult to install power lines. As the five-year old thin boy finished first, he asked leave so he could prepare the rice seedlings. Putting on a mantle on his head, he slipped on an old shirt that was his father's. "I'll wait for you at the ricefield, Tay." He ought to have been in school but his father needed help. His thin legs dug through the miry field as he bent his back burrowing the seedlings into the fresh, muddy earth.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon when a father sipped brewed coffee and his son hot chocolate at a cafe in a highly urbanized community. The five-year old boy, who was obese for his age, had ordered chicken with rice and a mound of potato fries saying he was hungry. As he forked on his food, and some he took with his fingers, crumbs of rice fell on the table and some on the floor. "Are you done, Son?" the father asked, seeing that his son hardly finished the rice serving. "I'm done, Dad," said the son licking on the gravy with his fingers, "just have the waiter wrap this leftover rice so I can give it to the dogs."

Is what we are planting sensitive to what we are eating? Is our agricultural production sensitive to put food always in the home? As insensitive as a five-year-old obese boy who wastes rice to drop on the floor or throws leftover rice to the dogs while a five year old boy in the barrio breaks his back to plant rice to feed a hungry nation, this country could be hanging on a limb with disparities between nutrition and agriculture on the issue of FAITH putting food always in the home.

In rare deliberations, some 20 government nutritionists, nurses, doctors and health practitioners engaged in lively but piercing discussions raising the concern that the agriculture blueprint of the country may not match with the nutrition blueprint of the Filipino diet. In the second regional management conference that the National Nutrition Council 7 held in Bais City on May 30 to June 1, nutrition action officers said that there continues to be a prevalence of poor nutritional levels based on the age for weight and height for weight parameters. They pointed at a disparity that the agriculture industry may not be producing enough food of what is nutritionally ideal. They said that while nutrition action officers can promote the food pyramid, getting this on the dining table of the average Filipino home maybe cumbered when the supply side of nutrition, which is agriculture, is insensitive to the Filipino diet.

Before the reaping

Hostile terrains in priority and governance may have come between nutrition and agriculture all this time. It may have come belated before each agency realized that nutrition-sensitive agriculture is the impetus for lactating mothers to have the proper diet and food that gives nourishment foundation in milk production. It may have been overlooked by both agencies that nutrition-sensitive agriculture is critical in promoting micro-nutrient based diets and healthy food lifestyles when fruits and vegetables are readily available, accessible and cheap.

In precipitating and moving for nutrition-sensitive agriculture, this year's Nutrition Month theme is "Pagkain ng gulay ugaliin, araw-araw itong ihain" on the rationale that the best way to have nutrition-based diet is to produce agricultural harvests that are sensitive and responsive to nutrition-based menu.Nutrition action officers in the region observed that on economies of scale, more definitive levels of collaboration may yet be needed between the nutrition council and the agriculture department.

While the agriculture department can claim to have increased annual production output and more efficient logistics food chain, such harvests do not equate to being nutrition-sensitive. In other words, it is one thing to have increased agriculture output and another to have nutrition-sensitive production.One factor that was blamed for the disparity is that agriculture in this country is generally export-based. Agricultural lands are traditionally dedicated in producing crops for export and not necessarily for the consumption of the average Filipino family. There are not so much lands dedicated to vegetable and fruit production. And if there are, the best pick, the best mangoes, the best carrots, the best potatoes, the best lettuces are either exported or sold to big hotels and restaurants while the "crumbs" and rejects are sold at local flea markets or grocery stores. This tends to make agriculture un-FAITHful that is fruits and vegetables become expensive making Food-Always-In-The-Home prohibitive for dining tables of marginalized families. While nutrition is no respecter of social status, lopsided agriculture can discriminate when nutritionally-ideal food like fruits and vegetables are expensive.

Another is, agricultural lands these days are either converted into subdivisions and residential communities while others turn into war zones displacing thousands of farmlands and farmers. Until there is a principled resolve to armed hostilities and until there are definitive reforms and enforcement to land use, hunger and malnutrition continues to be real. There continues to be prevalence of malnutrition even in agriculture-based economies either because there are not enough lands for agriculture and agricultural lands are planted to export commodities hence neglecting and leaving out basic nutrition-based produce.

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