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Behind the scenes at Natural Products expo west - A "brutally honest" Health Ranger Review Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And that's what I'll share with you here: A behind-the-scenes look at expo west. Here's what you'll never read in the mainstream media. To get started, however, I do have to compliment the New Hope staff and show organizers. Even with some of the grumbling from vendors I'm about to reveal here, the show was, in my opinion, a huge success. It really is a must-see event for anyone in the industry, and the crowds were even thicker this year, meaning there's an increase in public interest in natural products. So kudos to the New Hope folks who put this together.

The inside scoop: Natural Health Products expo west industry event Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And the expo west organizers, I dare say, have sold out to the company with the most bucks. It's a credibility issue, and when you run a natural health products expo, your credibility gets sent to the dumps pretty quickly when your top sponsor is a bar loaded with refined sugars. Who do they think they're fooling with this? Maybe next we'll have cigarette companies sponsoring Lung Cancer conventions, too. I hope that the expo west organizers next year will make an effort to find sponsors that aren't so embarrassing to the natural health community.

Behind the scenes at Natural Products expo west - A "brutally honest" Health Ranger Review Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Just walking out of the Hilton hotel became an exercise in respiratory survival, and entering the expo west show itself required scrambling through a wall of smokers stationed just outside the main entrance doors. Whether you were trying to eat lunch under the sun, catch a taxi or return to your hotel, you were always fighting the cigarette smoke. It even wafted indoors any time someone opened a door to enter or leave the show building.

I inhaled so much smoke at expo west that I'm pretty sure visiting that trade show was the single most hazardous health experience I've had since last year's show. Sorta funny for a "health" show, huh? But it also just goes to show you how many people are in the industry for the profit, not the health. Some folks will sell you cancer remedies in between puffs on a cigarette. The solution to all this is simple. Ban smoking on all the sidewalks and walkways, create a designated smoking room in the basement, and make people go there to light up.

It's 3:15! The expo west trade show ends at 4:00pm on Sunday. But anxious exhibitors began fleeing the floor as early as 3:15. They started breaking down their booths, madly handing out remaining samples to overloaded trick-or-treaters carrying five bags of goodies, and packing up their literature. I, of course, was still trying to conduct some honest journalism, so I stuck with the plan until closing time. But by 3:45 -- still fiften minutes until exhibitors were supposed to close their booths -- I was stepping over booth parts like walking through a minefield.

All the smoke, the taxis, the disorganized Super Shuttle company and the crap products don't bring me down when I'm at expo west. But maybe that's because I'm high on raw cacao and maca the whole time, too. Superfoods really do work, and I found a chocolate bar made of 92% cacao. Plus, I munched on Incan Berries the whole time, and brought my own organic macadamia nuts from www.SouthKonaMacs.com (which wasn't at the show). I drank an egg protein breakfast by snarfing down cups of Jay Robb's new egg protein product (www.JayRobb.

Pangea Organics wins Best Skin Care Company Award at Natural Products expo west 2007 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Best Skin Care Company" award by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, following the Natural Products expo west 2007 trade show in Anaheim, California. Here, the Health Ranger offers a brief review of the company and product line: Pangea is flat-out one of the most eco-conscious personal care product companies I've ever had the pleasure of learning about. Headed by Joshua Onysko, Pangea goes way beyond the norm in creating eco-conscious, fair trade, health-friendly soaps and personal care products ranging from soap and shower products to skin cleansers, toners and creams.

Emerald Balance wins "Best New Superfood Blend" award at Natural Products expo west 2007 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Best New Superfood Blend" award by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, following the Natural Products expo west 2007 trade show in Anaheim, California. In this review, the Health Ranger offers a brief review of the company, its founder and product line: Jan Lovejoy, the founder of Emerald Balance, is one of the most genuine, open-hearted and truly compassionate people you will ever meet, and her love for helping people improve their health shines through her entire product line: X-Balance (superfoods for kids) and Emerald Balance (superfoods for adults).

Jay Robb egg protein wins "Best New Protein Supplement" award at Natural Products expo west 2007 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Best New Protein Supplement" award from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, following the Natural Products expo west 2007 trade show in Anaheim, California. In this review, the Health Ranger offers a brief review of the Jay Robb company, its founder and product line: Finding a good protein supplement is more difficult than you might think. First there's the choice of sweetener. Most of the popular protein products on the market are sweetened with refined sugars (obesity, anyone?), chemical sweeteners (toxicity) or sugar alcohols (diarrhea). But Jay Robb's protein products have no such sweeteners.

Behind the scenes at Natural Products expo west - A "brutally honest" Health Ranger Review Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: The Natural Products expo west trade show was held last weekend in Anaheim, California. I spent the show cruising the floor, interviewing vendors, sampling products and digging up new information to pass along to NewsTarget readers. (By the way, thanks to all the people who said hi to me at the show! It was nice to meet some NewsTarget readers in person.) If you read the mainstream media, everybody's happy, happy, happy about the show and the industry as a whole, but if you go there yourself and ask questions as an independent, skeptical journalist, you get the rest of the story.

The inside scoop: Natural Health Products expo west industry event Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Because as I learned from the expo west trade show, it's no longer an issue of not having access to health-enhancing products. All those products exist right now -- the very products that can prevent and even help reverse serious diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis and many more. The solutions are within your reach. It's just up to you to take the necessary action steps to benefit from them.

I hope that the expo west organizers next year will make an effort to find sponsors that aren't so embarrassing to the natural health community. Real health solutions exist right now I've got to shift gears here and cover one last point before wrapping this up. It's the number one thing I learned at the show, through interviewing all of these doctors, alternative health practitioners, product formulators, researchers and so on (from all over the world, by the way, not just the United States).

REPPED: I recently returned from the Natural Health Products expo west, where I learned some interesting things. One of those is that if you want to get the real hardcore health information, the hidden treasures of the natural healthcare community, you have to get face to face with the innovative small business owners, the pioneering doctors and researchers, and others who are pushing the envelope of health and nutrition.

Raw Spirit Festival Update: Amazing raw foods products and more Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Typical natural health events like the expo west trade show is stuffy and boring by comparison. If you wanna have fun, hang with raw foods people (or go live at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center for a few days www.TreeofLife.nu -- you'll have so much fun with Phillip the raw foods Jedi that you'll forget all about the cooked food you left behind!). I will, of course, be present at the event next year, and in the next few weeks, I'll be posting a way you can sign up for the event at a discount.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

California Gold Free organic soap, granola bars and a bottle of mint-infused water make their way into my canvas bag as I run the gauntlet of enthusiastic people lining the entrance to Natural Products expo west. Inside on the floor of the Anaheim Convention Center, the business opportunity of the 21st century is on full display in all its mad glory: more than 3,000 booths offering tiny bottles of natural shampoo, morsels of organic food and other flashy tricks that make it hard to focus in any one direction.

Tensions boiled to the surface at the 2005 Natural Products expo west at a panel about the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. During the Q&A session, angry questions flew at Morris Shriftman. What was Avalon using instead of parabens? Why wouldn't they share the formula for the alternative preservatives? How did they know the alternatives were safer? As the voices grew louder, Avalon CEO Gil Pritchard stood up from the middle of the crowd and addressed the room in a booming, very CEO-like voice. Avalon was just trying to do the right thing, he said, and if they didn't like it, tough.

Preview of seven amazing new natural health products to be featured on NewsTarget Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These are companies you'll never see sponsoring a big trade show like expo west, but they're the kind of companies that genuine natural health followers absolutely adore. Watch for these stories here on NewsTarget!

NewsTarget emerges as top truly independent natural health news site Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Let me share a true story of what happened at the most recent expo west trade show in Anaheim, California. It was on the last day of the show, and I was exploring the trade show floor, looking for some interesting new products to evaluate. I happened upon one company in a large booth selling a new food bar. The signs at their booth claimed their food bar was "ideal for diabetics," so I was interested enough to take a look. I sat down at a table at their booth and introduced myself as Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NewsTarget.com.

Ruth Shamai of Ruth's Hemp Foods unveils latest lineup of nutritious, hemp-based foods Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This is Mike Adams at Health expo west 2006 being joined by Ruth from Ruth's Hemp Foods. Ruth Shamai: Mike, I'm so happy to see you again. Mike: It's my pleasure. I always enjoy chatting with you. I understand you have several new hemp products this year. Shamai: We always try to bring something new to the shows and so this year we've done a few things. Last year you saw my hemp protein powders: 100% Hemp, Hemp Sprouted Flax and Maca. But we wanted people to be able to travel with them conveniently, and also offer a trial size so people didn't have to make a big investment.

Interview: Larry Pederson and the LiteBook portable phototherapy device Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, here at Natural Products expo west 2006. I'm joined by Larry Pederson, the founder of The Litebook Company and inventor and creator of the light therapy device called Litebook. Here to tell us about it is Larry. Larry Pederson: Yes -- nice to see you, Mike. It's my pleasure. Mike: Great to be speaking with you, Larry. Now, tell us about this product. How does it work and how can it help us be healthier individuals? Pederson:Well, it can help a lot of people. Basically, it's light therapy. Light therapy's been around for about 20 years.

Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods Dianne Onstad See book keywords and concepts

A sample of kamut was taken to the Natural Products expo west '86 in Anaheim, California, where serious commercial interest started and has grown steadily ever since. It has since been introduced to the natural food market, where it is gaining rapidly in popularity. Health Benefits pH 6.0. Kamut is a high-energy grain of greatet nutritional value than regular wheat strains; it is also easier to digest and more compatible with human physiology. It does have less fiber, though, because the huge size of the grain gives a lower ratio of hull to volume.

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