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Protect Your Health and Buy Vani Hari’s Important New Book FEEDING YOU LIES

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After writing about the organic food industry for nearly a decade, I have come to learn one thing — there are many powerful corporations that will do whatever it takes to get you to continue eating their unhealthy products.

Why?

Money.

These products can be easily produced, are highly profitable and provide little to no nutritional value to consumers.

Given the profits at stake and with sales of these unhealthy foods rapidly losing market share to organic ones, these major corporations employ highly sophisticated and often very manipulative tactics that the average consumer is unaware of or cannot identify.

And that is why Vani Hari’s Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry’s Playbook and Reclaim Your Health is such a must-read.

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Top 5 Non-Food Products of Natural Products Expo West 2013

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Even though food is a huge component of Natural Products Expo West, it is not the only category that is exhibited there.

Supplements also have a very big presence, but what really fascinates me are a lot of the non-food items. So, what I like to do after each trade show is present to you some of the most memorable and compelling household items that I come across.

Here are my Top 5 Non-Food Products of Natural Products Expo West 2013.

CLEARLY FILTERED WATER PITCHER

Filtered water is a very hot topic because the quality of our water supply is so abysmal and contains toxic chemicals such as fluoride, chlorine, and atrazine.

Many people ask me about Britta and while it is better than no filter at all, I don’t believe that it is ideal by any means.

At Expo West, I came across a company called Clearly Filtered, a competitor to Britta, yet its results seem to be superior.

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In Los Angeles for Expo West, Documenting My Meals on the Road

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The biggest trade show of the year in the organic food industry, Natural Products Expo West, starts tomorrow in Anaheim, CA and I am here covering it. Needless to say, this is a very exciting event and 55,000 people are expected to attend.

Since I get a lot of questions about how I eat organic on the road, I will be documenting all of my meals for everyone to see.

This is what I took on the plane.

ORGANIC SPINACH SALAD WITH SUN-DRIED TOMATOES FROM ORGANIC AVENUE

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Top 5 Organic Food Products from Expo West 2017

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As I do after each Natural Products Expo West, I name my top 5 organic food products of the show.

This year, it was especially difficult to choose just five. Not only did this year’s Expo West have nearly 2,800 vendors, but the quality of products from organic food companies has never been better.

To get my full recap of Expo West and to learn about the key trends at this year’s show, be sure to sign up for a FREE trial of Organic Insider (no cost, no obligation, no credit card required) and I’ll send it over to you.

Here are My Top 5 Organic Food Products from Natural Products Expo West 2017.

NUTIVA’S ORGANIC MCT OIL


If you are familiar with MCT oil, popularized by the Bulletproof coffee craze, and are an organic food person, you are also aware that there has been no organic MCT oil on the market. Until now.

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Top 5 Non-Food Products from Natural Products Expo East 2012

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The other day I put up my Top 5 Organic Food Products from Natural Products Expo East 2012.

However, food was not the only thing that captured my attention at the show. The personal care and cooking products were incredibly impressive and innovative.

Here are My Top 5 Non-Food Products from Expo East 2012.

VERMONT SOAP ORGANICS – TOOTH SALT

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you know that the only fruit/vegetable wash I recommend is by Vermont Soap Organics. It’s the best.

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