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  • Particularly in Southern California-which Shurtleff and Aoyagi identify as the health-food movement's most important early hub-adults embraced "living foods" with the goal of retaining a youthful vitality, inspired by best-sellers such as Gayelord Hauser's

    Slate Magazine Daniel Fromson 2011

  • Particularly in Southern California-which Shurtleff and Aoyagi identify as the health-food movement's most important early hub-adults embraced "living foods" with the goal of retaining a youthful vitality, inspired by best-sellers such as Gayelord Hauser's

    Slate Magazine Daniel Fromson 2011

  • Nasopure is now sold in some 600 health-food stores and brings in about $500,000 in annual sales—"nothing to sneeze at," as Dr. Solomon likes to say.

    The Art of Selling a Yucky Product Colleen DeBaise 2011

  • These days, the yoga-practicing health-food nut is much more passionate about fighting for social justice than about scouring Wall Street for evidence of chicanery, say friends and colleagues.

    Top Cop Cut From a Different Cloth Mary Pilon 2011

  • By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as bouncy, round-faced Kathy, with gleaming freshly washed hair and enviable teeth, eager to please and no more interesting than a health-food ad.

    Dave Astor: An Appreciation of Margaret Atwood Dave Astor 2011

  • And—for the true carnivores among us—why was no place found for steak tartar raw shaved beef with a garnish of egg, onion, capers and, sometimes, caviar, a staple in most of Europe and still featured in American restaurants unintimidated by the health-food crazies?

    Classics Made New Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011

  • Nestl é, the world's largest food and drinks maker by sales, has for years pushed to broaden its health-food platform by creating new products such as nutrient-enriched yoghurts or drinks.

    Nestl Goran Mijuk 2010

  • Since his start selling herbal botanicals from a health-food shop in the 1970s, Mr. Smith, 62, has honed his knowledge of what good tea leaves taste like.

    The All-Star Alchemist of Top-Shelf Tea Nancy Keates 2011

  • Health Warrior's supplier, Pharmachem Laboratories, said orders have skyrocketed in the past year as health-food connoisseurs and amateur athletes have increased the demand for the seeds.

    The NFL's Top-Secret Seed Reed Albergotti 2012

  • The grocery, Wild Olive Market, opened about a year ago in space formerly occupied by a 99-cent store and an African fabric shop, is one of a flurry of new arrivals on its historic stretch of East 125th Street: Sade Skincare, a cosmetics shop; Island Salad, a health-food café; and the Brownstone, a clothing boutique, are among its neighbors.

    New Stores Give a Lift to East 125th Street Melanie Lefkowitz 2011

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