Now in its third year, the conference will convene experts from industry, academia, and government to explore the changing food and beverage landscape. The conference will address key market drivers such as greater consumer health awareness and the potential for premium pricing-both of which fuel growth in the functional foods market. Sustaining this growth will hinge on manufacturers’ ability to focus on food qualities, market effectively, target the appropriate segments, and align with the wider consumer health agenda.

Highlights of Wellness 10 are as follows:



Wednesday, March 24

Gainers & Waners: Up-and-Coming Markets and Messages
What are the current health and nutrition trends in today’s market? Keynote speaker and Food Technology contributing editor Dr. A. Elizabeth Sloan of Sloan Trends, Inc., will provide an overview of the up-and-coming functional food and beverage opportunities, discuss a trend-tracking system separating sustainable trends from fads, and explore product positioning within the functional foods arena.

Consumer Panel: Let’s Hear It from the Moms
Listening to the needs and wants of consumers is fundamental to success in any industry, and the health and wellness marketplace is no exception. Join Lu Ann Williams of Innova Market Insights for a thought-provoking, moderated discussion from a panel of primary household shoppers in the Chicago area. Gain insights into how these consumers make healthy food choices for their families.

Learning about Connected Innovation
In today’s competitive marketplace, how can you accelerate the innovation efforts already taking place within your company by tapping into the vast experience that exists outside of your company? In this session, Dr. Mike Antinone, a senior R&D manager of Connected Innovation at General Mills, will discuss business rationale, best practices, potential challenges, and new tools that will allow you to move from a model of invention to one of connection.

Thursday, March 25

Change the Food to Change the Consumer? Applying Behavior Change Theory to Healthful Food Product Development
How do you reconcile the need to change consumers’ nutrition behavior with developing successful wellness related food products? The key is to understand what motivates a consumer to adopt a new behavior. This session’s leaders, Dr. David Allison of University of Alabama at Birmingham and Dr. Kantha Shelke of Corvus Blue LLC, will explore how behavior change science can be applied to food product development to create an environment that is conducive for healthful behaviors and to encourage the purchase of wellness products.

Functional Foods in a New Era of FDA Enforcement
Functional foods continue to be a rapidly growing segment of the consumer food market. However, the sale of these products must be approached with increased caution because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sharply increased its enforcement activities. Through practical examples of currently marketed products, Anthony Pavel, an attorney with K&L Gates LLP, and Shanon Trueman, an analyst at Nerac, Inc., will discuss the application of FDA regulations of these foods and applicable advertising law principles. In addition, participants will gain a firm grasp of FDA’s increased focus on enforcement and gain a better sense of the types of data needed to support health claims for functional foods.

Reformulating Products to Nutritionally Improve Foods Targeted to Children
Addressing childhood obesity continues to be a public health priority. As a key player in the solution, the food industry is offering healthier choices for children. At this session, Adelaide Geik, a registered dietitian at Edelman, Elaine Kolish of the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, and Dr. Yeonhwa Park of the University of Massachusetts will discuss case studies that demonstrate how each sector has addressed such challenges. In addition, participants will learn how food scientists might participate in national policy discussions involving the food supply and food accessibility and how they affect children.

Future of Food & Health: Consumer Attitudes about Food in the Age of Health Care Reform
Reducing the cost of health care has become a major priority for the government, employers, and consumers. Food and nutrition will likely play a key role in future discussions about how to reduce health-care-related costs. Dr. Roger Clemens of the University of Southern California, Jessie M. Pavlinac of Oregon Health & Science University, and Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak of the International Food Information Council will offer insights into Americans’ top health concerns and their attitudes toward foods that provide benefits beyond basic nutrition. In Thursday’s closing session, opportunities for new technologies as a means to reduce the risk of disease, such as nutrigenomics, will also be discussed. Research and business strategies that assist in helping consumers achieve optimal health will be presented and the possible evolution of health care toward a prevention model will be explored.

Source
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

Democratic leaders stated the purpose of the summit was ‘to put a face on gridlock”, namely that the Republicans would be shown as obstructing the passage of the Healthcare reform bill. For weeks the Democrats and the press have been describing the republicans as the party of ‘NO’. The Republicans at the summit gave their ideas on healthcare reform that were less sweeping and more piecemeal than those in the Democrat bills. Though the over all inclination of the republicans has been to scrap the current bills and start the whole process over.

President Obama’s spokespersons indicated that Obama had avoided a trap that the Republicans were setting for him. (Though it’s hard to fathom why he should fear a trap as Obama was the one who called for the summit.) To any objective observer the whole summit idea was to try to place the Republicans in a defensive position, and to blame them for not passing any Healthcare reform bill.

On Wednesday, President Obama Called for final, ‘last ditch effort’ to pass a healthcare reform bill. In his latest proposal Obama has included some republican ideas:

Eliminating fraud, waste, and inefficiencies from the healthcare system

Reduce medical malpractice lawsuits

Encourage individual Health Savings Accounts (HSA)

Obama also indicated that he would support the reconciliation process in order to prevent a Republican filibuster of any bill that comes out of the compromise committee sessions. The reconciliation process has only been used in the past to pass bills to reduce the Federal spending. The reconciliation process has never been used to pass a major social policy bill, or a bill that is overwhelmingly opposed by the American public. Trying to use the reconciliation process to pass a major social issues bill is a risky political maneuver.

The passage of the bill is far from certain. The Democrats in the Senate do not have the 60 votes they need to pass legislation, which is why the reconciliation process is being utilized. In the House, passage may be even harder. Many Democrats have seen the political winds in America shifting, and fearing for their jobs, some are rethinking their position on healthcare.

The Republicans have vowed to use every procedural process they can to delay or stall the healthcare reform bill. There is also disagreement between the House and Senate Democrats on the language in the final bill.

The importance of this bill passing or not passing cannot be overstated. Politicians on both sides of the aisle realize the importance of this bill as indicated by the following statements:

“Whatever it takes to get health care done,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said of the president’s schedule.

Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to use “every option available.”

“We’re going to scrub the bill thoroughly,” said Mitch McConnell (R-Ky)

John A, Boehner(R-Ohio) said Obama “voiced support for a partisan scheme to jam the bill through Congress.”

Political analysis:

The whole Healthcare reform issue has become purely a political issue. Political analysts from all perspectives see the Democrats committing political suicide in order to pass a healthcare reform bill this session. The political climate in America is shifting more toward the conservatives, and it appears that many current Democrat representatives will not be re-elected this November in any case. The Democratic leadership is asking members to vote for the Healthcare reform bill as a lasting legacy for the Democrat party. The leaders know that once this bill is passed, even though the republicans may regain control of the House and Senate in November, the die will be cast and it will be almost impossible to roll-back the reforms. The Democrats will have ensured the changes in American society that they have been working toward for over 70 years. Once the government has control of healthcare in the country, then they can control almost all aspects of American life. When the government is paying for healthcare then the government can tell you what to eat, how much to exercise, and make decisions on whom receives healthcare or not based on political ideology. The passage of this bill will change life in America as we know it. That is why it appears that Democrats are willing to committee political suicide for the passage of the bill.

Vitamin D enhances the activity of the corticosteroid dexamethasone more than ten-fold in cells taken from asthma patients.

National Jewish Health pediatrician Dan Searing, MD, and his colleagues measured levels of MKP-1, a protein essential for the anti-inflammatory effects of corticosteroids, in cells that had been cultured with dexamethasone alone or with vitamin D and dexamethasone. MKP-1 levels were significantly higher in cells cultured in vitamin D and 10nm concentrations of dexamethasone, than in cells cultured in 100nm concentrations of dexamethasone alone.

The findings suggest that vitamin D supplementation in asthma patients could improve control and/or allow for lower medication doses. The researchers are developing a clinical research protocol to evaluate vitamin D supplementation in asthma patients.

Oral Immunotherapy Shows Promise for Egg Allergy

Early results from the Consortium of Food Allergy Research (National Jewish Health, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Mount Sinai and the University of Arkansas) suggest that children with egg allergy can be desensitized by giving them oral immunotherapy with egg-white solid. Fifty-five children received daily oral immunotherapy for 44 weeks followed by an oral food challenge with egg. Fifty-one percent of children receiving immunotherapy safely consumed 5 grams of egg white, while none of the 15 patients receiving placebo treatments did. Researchers will continue to follow the children to see if they remain egg-tolerate long-term.



What is the Best Step-Up Asthma Therapy for Children?

For children whose asthma is not well controlled and on low doses of inhaled corticosteroids, a long-acting beta-agonist may be the most effective of three possible add-on therapies, according to research by National Jewish clinician-scientists and their colleagues in the Childhood Asthma Research and Education Network.

Almost all the children responded positively to at least one of the three step-up therapies, but different medications worked better for different children. About 45 percent of the children responded best to the long-acting beta agonist salmeterol, 28 percent responded best to the leukotriene receptor antagonist montelukast, and 27 responded best to doubling the dose of the inhaled corticoteroid fluticasone. Read more.

Marker for Steroid-Resistant Asthma Identified

In a featured poster presentation, Elena Goleva, PhD, described how she and her colleagues found high levels of the protein uteroglobin in the airways of steroid-resistant asthmatics compared to the airways of steroid-sensitive asthmatics. The uteroglobin was secreted from clara cells, which are found in the small airways and help protect the airway epithelium by secreting a variety of products. Uteroglobin is known to inhibit the enzyme phospholipase 2.

The higher uteroglobin levels were also detected in plasma, which could make it a measurable marker of steroid resistance. Steroid resistance is a common problem in asthma, and an effective marker could help physicians settle on an effective treatment sooner.

Exhaled Nitric Oxide for Asthma Diagnosis and Assessment in Children

There has been ongoing controversy regarding use of nitric oxide as an effective tool for asthma diagnosis and assessment. Joseph Spahn, MD, and colleagues reported that exhaled nitric oxide is associated with physician diagnosis of asthma, days per week with daytime symptoms, asthma severity, and need for steroid bursts. They conclude the exhaled nitric oxide is a useful tool for diagnosis and assessment of pediatric asthma in an outpatient clinic.

Source:
William Allstetter
National Jewish Medical and Research Center

The President’s Food Safety Working Group has emphasized the need for improved metrics for evaluating the government’s efforts to prevent foodborne illness. The workshop will focus on current methods for evaluating food safety progress, the methodologic and data challenges involved, and the potential for improved metrics.

“Being able to draw links between what we’re doing to keep the food supply safe and the frequency of human illness is crucial for gauging the effectiveness of our programs – what changes are needed, and in what areas,” said FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods Michael Taylor.

“To make our food safer, we must know as quickly as possible which foods are making people ill and why,” said USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety Jerold R. Mande. “This meeting will help us develop the specific measures we need to see which policies work best to improve food safety.”

The public workshop will include explanations, by CDC, of how rates of foodborne illness are estimated for various purposes; for example, to determine overall rates of foodborne illness and rates for specific pathogens. FDA, FSIS, and a state representative will describe other measurements they use to gauge the success of policies and other interventions for reducing foodborne illness.

“The data we collect and analyze can provide critical insights to guide our food safety programs; all stakeholders should understand how this information is best applied to advance food safety in the United States.” Dr. Rima Khabbaz, Deputy Director of Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Source
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

The Honey Cayenne pepper diet is a cleansing program program that dictates only liquids, no solid foods for 10 days. This is also the reason for the often shorter name “10 Day Diet”, which is indicative of the fact that you can loose 10 annoying pounds in 10 days. The system flushed you body by using a series of “cleaning drinks” which are salt water, purified water, and a lemon pepper tea beverage. The lemon pepper beverage is the component which contain the detoxifying agents that help you to loose weight by cleaning out your system.

Now the implementation of the diet is very simple, first stop by the market and pick up the things that you will need. The items needed are very simple, Water, Lemon Juice, Honey and Cayenne Pepper. Every day and every night for the next ten days make up your “tea” of honey, lemon cayenne and your preference of water to taste and drink it up. Make sure that you continue you mini meals and regular exercising and soon you will start to see the pounds melt away. Men can see the weigh loss in their most difficult body areas quickly proven that they honey cayenne pepper diet works for men.

You want to make sure that you are eating meals as otherwise you run the risk of only loosing water weight. Water weight is not easy to keep off as simply drinking water is enough to put it back. Your body need water to operate and if you start to remove the water from it it will stop functioning as it should. Me who work with their bodies on a daily basis need to be sure to drink enough water to compensate for their sweating and stressful activities, otherwise they may suffer from dehydration, this is the only special consideration of the honey cayenne pepper diet working for men.

You may be under the impression that you cannot eat anything at all while on the honey and cayenne pepper diet, but the truth is that you must eat while doing this diet to get the maximum results. Researchers agree that in oder to get the most form any hyper load dietary plan you have to have a healthy amount of protein and enough carbs to account for the massive boost that your metabolism is going to go through. Egg white sin the morning (loose the yolk and you loose the calories and the cholesterol) is a great way to start, keep it going with nuts and whole grain snacks throughout the day and finish up with a pasta that has lots of veggies and lean meat in the sauce. See its simple to get the fuel you need when using the honey and cayenne pepper diet.

The Cayenne pepper diet is a cleansing program that dictates only liquids, no solid foods for 10 days. This is also the reason for the often shorter name “10 Day Diet”, which is indicative of the fact that you can loose 10 annoying pounds in 10 days. The system flushed you body by using a series of “cleaning drinks” which are salt water, purified water, and a lemon pepper tea beverage. The lemon pepper beverage is the component which contain the detoxifying agents that help you to loose weight by cleaning out your system.

The main advantage of the cayenne pepper diet is that it can help you to stay away from food. Its was never meant to be used as a weight loss tool but it has found a strong popularity as such. After a day on the diet you should not feel any hunger or desire for food. Most users say that they have no interest in snacking.

When you do not eat a balanced diet you can end up feeling tired and worn down, with the cayenne pepper diet your body will go through spurts of energy and you will find that you are not feeling weak at all. Your body will be going through a full system detox, the bursts of energy you are experiencing are due to the excess fat in your body being burned at an accelerated rate. This is the best benefit of the cayenne pepper diet. Some cleansing diets do a partial detox but this system cleans out everything.

If you are looking for ways to lose weight, the cayenne pepper diet is a method that you need to try out. There are plenty of other benefits that you can receive when you take the time to follow the “10 day diet”. Cleaning out your body on a regular basis will allow you to live a longer and fuller life. The cayenne pepper diet has now become a fad diet that shows you the results that you want to see. The only way for you to determine if this particular diet works or not, is to give it a shot and find out for yourself. All you have to lose is 10 short days and a few possible pounds.

Any cleansing diet that is an extreme fast or starvation diet can have unintended negative effects. Most of these cleansing diets are not really cleansing diets at all. They are actually rapid weight loss diets. We are speaking, here, primarily of the juice diets. A juice cleansing diet generally advocates no solid food intake what so ever, and here is where the potential for danger lurks. Your body needs to take in certain nutrients and vitamins to maintain life and stay strong. A juice cleansing diet may maintain that they provide all of the nutrients and vitamins you need to sustain your body through their starvation regimen, and they probably do, but just barely. It is arguable as to whether you need to add the extreme element of starvation for a cleansing diet to be effective.

There are many cleansing diets that have no starvation element at all. These sorts of cleansing diet, that make a substitution of organic fruits and vegetables for processed foods, dairy, meat, and fatty foods, represent no possible danger to the dieter. This sort of cleansing diet seeks to stop your intake of toxins by creating a healthy diet, instead of a poison and impurity fueled one.

Solid foods, in the form of organic fruits and vegetable, pasta, rice, beans, and herbs are encouraged in this sort of cleansing diet. A colonic may be included in the regimen of a cleansing diet to safely clean your colon. The addition of this element to a solid foods cleansing diet will not hurt you. The addition of a colonic to a starvation type cleansing diet could introduce another element of danger to an already rigorous regimen.

The duration of a cleansing diet is also an important element in considering if a certain regimen is safe for you. Going on a fast, like a juice cleansing diet, may be perfectly all right for a couple of three to four days, but the longer you remain on a starvation type cleansing diet, the more potential risk you add to the equation. A cleansing diet using solid foods as its feeding basis can run up to two weeks, maybe more, safely.

With a cleansing diet offering solid foods, you are halting the intake of toxins from certain foods by eliminating these foods from your diet. With a fasting form of cleansing diet, you are halting the intake of toxins by removing all solid food from your diet.

The key to any diet, as anything else you undertake in life, is moderation. If a cleansing diet seems too extreme or bizarre for you, it probably is not right for you. That is not to say that it wouldn’t work just fine for someone else. We are not talking about anyone else here. We are talking about your personal safety here, which has to do with your comfort level. The rule should be, if it makes you uncomfortable, don’t do it. Try another kind of cleansing diet, instead.

You may be under the impression that you cannot eat anything at all while on the honey and cayenne pepper diet, but the truth is that you must eat while doing this diet to get the maximum results. Researchers agree that in oder to get the most form any hyper load dietary plan you have to have a healthy amount of protein and enough carbs to account for the massive boost that your metabolism is going to go through. Egg white sin the morning (loose the yolk and you loose the calories and the cholesterol) is a great way to start, keep it going with nuts and whole grain snacks throughout the day and finish up with a pasta that has lots of veggies and lean meat in the sauce. See its simple to get the fuel you need when using the honey and cayenne pepper diet.

Also make sure that you are getting a proper amount of exercise everyday. This too is easier than you might think. Simple things you can do to get more movement in your day are take the stairs instead of the elevator at work, if you cant do it the whole way then get off the elevator one or two floors short and walk the rest of the way up. Park as far from the door as you can and walk across the parking lot, again if its too far at first then only park halfway away and gradually move further out. When printing your documents, choose printer on another floor or on the other side of the offices instead of using the one at your desk in fact if you can just remove the printer from your cubical not only will it eliminate temptation but will also free up more counter space at your desk. You can also GO talk to a coworker about your work rather than calling them on the phone or sending an Email or IM. Carry your own grocery bags and load them into the car rather then letting the bag boy do it and when you get home take them up yourself rather than letting the doorman handle the task.

Simple weight training can be done at home using a less than 50 dollar dumbbell set and 30 minutes three times a week, do it while watching the news or your favorite sport on TV, even something as simple as hanging the clothes out to dry rather than using the dryer is a great way to get more movement sunlight and fresh air into your life, not to mention lowering the utility bill.

Make sure that you are drinking plenty on the honey and cayenne pepper diet or you might experience some minor discomfort, you also need to make sure that you are getting enough fiber in your diet. You need to try to get 64 ounces or more of water in to your diet every day just to cover your bodies needs. You may want to up this amount while on the honey and cayenne pepper diet if you are uncomfortable.

You are now fully equipped to get started with the honey cayenne pepper diet! If you are hungry make sure to keep your proteins simple and eat them as needed. These proteins will give you great boosts of energy so make sure to take advantage. This diet is a diet that lasts less than 2 weeks long, which is nothing considering what you are going to be losing! Get on board so that you too can become one of the thousands of people that have seen success with the honey cayenne pepper diet.

At the same site you can access the menu planner module which you can use to keep track of your daily intake of food. You will also find tips there on how to properly intake the different food types.

The following are some tips about eating healthy:

1. Eat plenty of whole grain, because they have more nutrients and vitamins.
2. Eat different kinds of vegetables. The nutrition we get from vegetables varies with the kind of vegetable. This is why it is important for you to rotate the vegetables that you include in your daily diet.
3. Of course, you should take in plenty of fruits and calcium.
4. Avoid fatty meat.
5. Drink plenty of liquids to keep your intestines moving

With your food pyramid in hand and the tips above you should be in a better position to select the 1200 calorie diet menu that will work best for you and that will not be harmful for your health.

Nevertheless, it is always advisable to consult with your doctor or nutritionist first before actually beginning on your 1200 calorie diet menu. Remember, for dieting to be effective, the diet menu has to be taken for some period of time. Having the wrong menu to go on with can result in severe avitaminosis and starvation. You should also be aware that there is a psychosis called anorexia nervosa which makes a person want not just to diet, but to starve himself for some compelling psychological reason.

If you are allergic or intolerant to some foods, it is also wise to consult your nutritionist for possible substitutes for that food that may be included in your 1200 calorie diet menu.

1200 calorie diet menus can also be made from national foods. Such recipes may be availed of at the health and nutrition sites of the respective countries. Since these recipes will have been approved and endorsed by a good nutritionise, they are probably safe choices for dieting. But make sure that the ingredients needed will be available at your local market.

No matter what source you get your 1200 calorie diet menu from, always use your food pyramid to determine whether the ingredients in that menu will be giving you the correct amount of nutrition and calories that you need for staying in slim and healthy. Your food pyramid is a necessary reference for any dieting that you are doing now or are planning to do in the future.

The first thing that you need to do is weight yourself. This might be a bit painful for you, but it will allow you to find out how much weight you should be losing. For most people 30-40 pounds is usually the average amount of weight loss desired. The cayenne pepper diet has been designed to help you lose 10 pounds in 10 days. This may seem incredibly unrealistic but you might be surprised at how your body reacts to the honey cayenne pepper diet!

Once you are weighed in you need to get your ingredients. Honey, cayenne pepper, water and possibly lemon juice will be needed and mixed up together. This mixture is what will allow you to get through 10 days and see the weight loss you are looking to see. This mixture will be taken with you wherever you go. You should also carry around a regular bottle of water throughout the day. This will help to keep you hydrated and on the go!

You need to try and eat protein while on this diet as well. Some people would prefer to simply fast for ten days and clean out altogether. This can be great if you gradually start eating food after the diet. Those who try to have full meals after the honey cayenne pepper diet will deal with bloating and just feeling weighed down all over again. In order to avoid this make sure that you start out with soup or light foods. For those who want to eat while on the diet, stay away from snacking on chips, crackers and other fat loaded foods. Ensure that you eat a balanced diet of good proteins and raw fruits and vegetables. This helps to keep everything moving along within your body.

Losing weight is not as difficult as everyone makes it out to be. If you want to get down a size the honey cayenne pepper diet is going to be able to help you out immensely. There are so many tools and tips that you can find that will help you become even more successful with this diet. All you need to do is follow instructions and make sure that you remember what you are trying to do here. Slimming down is a great health choice to make, so start right now. All you need to spare is 10 days out of your life and you could start to reap the benefits of cleansing the body in order to lose weight. The honey cayenne pepper diet has been proven to be an effective cleansing weight loss method so check it out now!