Exercise Shown to Improve Sleep Patterns Over Time
Those who suffer from sleeping disorders and insomnia* have heard it a million times “If you work out more, you’ll be able to go to sleep easier”. The large majority of insomniacs who actually have...
View ArticlePersonal Health is No Longer Personal or Private
From Iconoculture: WHAT’S HAPPENING Yesterday’s “my health, my business” model of personal health management is beginning to head down a more public road. While many consumers still aren’t...
View ArticleStressed-out public school students get New Age relief
From Iconoculture: WHAT’S HAPPENING As consumer health fast becomes every category’s business, cars come equipped with vitamin-enhanced air filters and airports offer yoga rooms. Public schools are...
View ArticleNational Yoga Month Inspires Change in Consumers and Business
Yoga is one of the most ancient and popular exercises in the world. Its practice spans back thousands of years and has many denominations and variations. What is relatively new is National Yoga Month,...
View ArticleHealth Food With Manly Packaging Attempts To Lure New Demographic
As men take greater responsibility for grocery shopping and meal preparation in their households, food makers are trying to get them to buy products that they would have previously avoided like the...
View ArticleHalloween Time Means the Beginning of Holiday Indulgence
It’s that time of year again when we as society tend to let loose for the holidays. The first of these holidays to throw us off track from our healthy eating habits is Halloween. A new study by the...
View ArticleVegetables Shift to Center of the Plate
LongHorn Steak House went decades without serving so much as one Brussels sprout. Nor, for that matter, a slice of butternut squash. But this year, its new Brussels Sprouts Au Gratin has emerged as...
View ArticleHandheld Device Helps Consumers See What’s in Their Food
We have previously highlighted devices that make managing one’s health both more personal and mobile (see Advances in Consumer Health Devices Changing Personalized Health Care). One example of such...
View ArticleCalifornia Cosmetics Lovers Can Get Transparency About Toxicity Online
It’s been a long time coming, but the country’s first state-run cosmetics database has finally gone live online. Mandated by law in 2005, the California Safe Cosmetics Program Product Database allows...
View ArticlePutting Tiredness to Rest: Consumers Purchasing More Calming Household Products
For many Americans, getting a full night’s rest can be a challenge. Tiredness is listed as Americans’ number two health concern, right below stress. According to the National Sleep Foundation, 41% of...
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