Nature's One Connections

Many Learning and Behavior Problems Begin in Your Grocery Cart

Did you know that the brand of ice cream, cookie, and potato chip you select could have a direct effect on the behavior, health, and ability to learn for you or your children? Numerous studies show that certain synthetic food additives can have serious learning, behavior, and/or health effects for sensitive people.

The Feingold® Program (also known as the Feingold Diet) is a test to determine if certain foods or food additives are triggering particular symptoms. The Feingold diet is basically the way people used to eat before "hyperactivity" and "ADHD" became household words, and before asthma and chronic ear infections became so very common.

Retailer Food Survey Protects Food Sensitive Customers

The Native Sun Natural Foods Market is dedicated to providing their customers with the most accurate information about the type of ingredients used by food manufacturers.  Their goal is to promote foods and even household products that are organic or as natural as possible. This retail store identifies the products they carry by asking manufactures to complete its food survey. As a result of the survey completed by Nature’s One®, the retailer carries all three of our Baby’s Only Organic® formulas (Dairy, Lactose Free and Soy).

Native Sun Natural Foods Market is based in Jacksonville, Florida and voted 2008 Natural Food Retailer of the Year by WholeFoods Magazine.  The store concept was conceived when owner, Aaron Gottlieb, was diagnosed with chronic fatigue.  His condition was so severe that he found himself sleeping 18 hours some days. Aaron put himself on a healthy, organic diet and now feels better than ever.

Cornucopia Institute: Action Alert

April 6th, 2010

Next week, as early as Tuesday, April 13, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a sweeping overhaul of federal food safety law – S. 510. The House food safety bill passed last year (HR 2749) included several measures that threaten small-scale organic producers, including a registration fee of $500 and blanket application of complicated monitoring and traceability standards — regardless of one’s farm size.

There’s no doubt that industrial agriculture needs better oversight. But, family-scale local and organic farms are probably the safest in the nation –they are part of the solution, not part of the problem — and need to be protected!

Now is your chance, as a supporter of sustainable family farming, to help fix these problems! Senator John Tester (D-MT), a certified organic farmer himself, is proposing an amendment to S. 510 that would exempt small-scale farmers and food processors from the most burdensome regulations.

We need your help TODAY, please call your U.S. Senators in support of these proposals.

Prominent Brands Using "Organic" in Their Name When Products Don't Qualify

Nature’s One® works closely with it's organic certifying agency, OneCert™ to insure our products meet or exceed USDA organic certification regulations. OneCert™ conducts a certification “renewal” each year at our manufacturing plants and warehouses. Our brand name Baby’s Only Organic® is true to the organic ingredients used in our formulas. OneCert™ is a USDA-recognized certifying agency that firmly applies all of the rules.That is why Nature’s One® is proud to be associated with OnceCert™. For example, unlike Earth’s Best® Infant Formula, Similac® Organic and Vermont Organics™, we don’t use life’s DHA™ (DHA & ARA) fatty acids ingredients in our formula.  This ingredient is produced using hexane solvent, acid and bleach. We encourage you to read the article below to learn more and maybe support the Cornucopia Institute; they are the leading organic watchdog group in the United States. 

Cornucopia, WI—"While the organic label is the gold standard of eco-labels on food packages, one major loophole in the federal organic standards remains—which an organic industry watchdog is asking the USDA to close. Companies are tightly regulated in terms of their use of the word “organic” on food packaging, but some businesses are deceiving customers by using the words “Organic” or “Organics” in their company name on food that does not legally qualify as organic." <READ MORE>

http://www.cornucopia.org/2010/04/organic-industry-watchdog-asks-usda-to-crack-down-on-labeling-abuses/

 

 

NAPNAP 2010

Nature's One^® staff attended NAPNAP's 31st Annual Conference on Pediatric Healthcare in Chicago May 14th- 17th. We thoroughly enjoyed interacting with the pediatric nurse practitioners and were encouraged by their positive response to our organic pediatric medical foods, particularly PediaSmart^® Complete Organic Nutrition™.  You may visit us at www.NaturesOne.com for additional product information.

 

 

Synthetic Oils Could be Making Babies Sick

Organic Watchdog Asks USDA to Overturn Bush-Era Illegal Shenanigans

April 21st, 2010

Cornucopia, WI – For years, the USDA’s National Organic Program has failed to enforce federal organic standards that prohibit the use of certain unapproved synthetic substances in organic infant formula and other organic foods. The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based food and farm policy research group, is taking action to rein in the practice with the re-filing of a formal legal complaint with the USDA calling for the removal of the additives from organic infant formula.

The additives, DHA and ARA, are nutritional oils grown from fermented algae and soil fungus, and are being added to most conventional as well as organic formula brands. They have been linked to serious illness in some infants.