For Your Health

Help For Your Sore Throat
A new product that aims to conquer sore throat pain is Organix Organic Cough and Sore Throat Drops, the first over-the-counter, certified organic cough and sore throat drops. It’s from the makers of Cold-EEZE, an all-natural zinc cold remedy lozenge. Also new from the company is Cold-EEZE Immune Support Complex 10, a dietary supplement made of a proprietary blend of 10 herbs, vitamins, and zinc.

Also created to calm a scratchy throat, Simply Gargle Salt Water Rinse is a premixed portable rinse that combines salt water with a blend of vitamins, herbs, antioxidants and astringents. Each 0.4 fluid ounce dose is packaged in a small, portable, hermetically-sealed ampoule.

Lower Your Cholesterol
New to the arsenal of functional foods that fight cholesterol are Unilever’s Promise Activ Supershots, the first mini drinks with natural plant stanols— ingredients clinically proven to help actively remove cholesterol as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol. With two grams of plant sterols per serving, Supershots are available in three flavors.

Meatless Alternatives
To help you cut down on your meat consumption, ND Labs has created a soy-enhanced product to replace some or all of the meat in your meals: chickened flavored vegetarian strips that can be used in sandwiches and stir-fry dishes. They’re kosher, Halal suitable, vegetarian, and vegan. www.ndlabs.com

Water with Flavor
Infused with antioxidant rich herbs, Ayala’s Herbal Water, in six flavors, is all natural and free of calories, artificial additives, and preservatives. Created by a pediatrician, Ayala’s Herbal Water offers an alternative to sugary or artificially flavored beverages. www.herbalwater.com

Boosting Digestive Health
The LiveActive Movement is a lifestyle-based approach to digestive wellness. People with digestive problems can log onto to an interactive Web site, liveactivefoods.com, and take the LiveActive Gut Check, a web-based tool designed to assess habits promoting digestive health through a series of simple questions. Then, get help from the Everyday Plan, with tips on how to maintain good gut health. As part of the movement, Kraft has introduced LiveActive, a new line of products designed to aid digestive health, including LiveActive Cottage Cheese from Breakstone’s/Knudson and LiveActive Natural Cheese Snacks from Kraft., with probiotic cultures.

For Clear Ears
Surely you’ve been warned, don’t put anything—like cotton swabs, for example—in your ear. But if you suffer from chronic ear wax build-up or blockages, you can use a natural alternative created by Murine—the Earigate Ear Cleansing System. Developed by an ear, nose, and throat specialist, it prevents ear wax build-up through the use of a reverse-spray action of isotonic, desalinated natural sea water to loosen and rinse away ear wax from the inside out, avoiding pressure on the inner ear’s sensitive membranes. www.murine.com

Tooth Protection
Sensodyne’s PRoNamel toothpaste protects your teeth against the acid wear that comes from exposure to foods and beverages such as fruit, sodas, orange juice, and wine, which gradually soften and erode the protective layer of enamel. That acid wear can both cause painful tooth sensitivity and change the texture and appearance of your teeth. Sensodyne ProNamel is formulated with high fluoride availability to re-harden enamel and make it more resistant to acid attacks.

Functional Water
Vital Lifestyle Water has a variety for almost every purpose. For vitality, there's citrus starfruit. For Calm, Guava. For energy, Dragon Fruit. To boost metabolism, Acai Berry. They’re specialized formulas designed to provide the benefits of vitamin water without the calories and sweeteners. Made of 100 percent purified water, natural herbal supplements, vitamins, and all-natural fruit sugars, the drinks have 15 calories per serving and contain no artificial sweeteners, colors, or flavors.

Drink Water, Not Sugar
Hint Water, simply and naturally flavored water, was created by a mother of four looking for a healthful alternative to beverages loaded with calories, artificial sweeteners, and preservatives. Hint offers nine fruity flavors of enhanced water.
www.drinkhint.com

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