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Product review: Read this before buying the AeroGrow AeroGarden countertop herb garden Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: There's a new countertop herb garden device on the market called "AeroGarden," and it's being sold by catalog companies, online retailers and even some home product stores. Marketing text written about the AeroGarden device claims the unit, "...uses aeroponics, a form of gardening tested by NASA and used to grow crops in space where plant roots are exposed to a fine mist of nutrients." (Source: Hammacher Schlemmer catalog, Spring preview 2007, page 50). Editor's note: The AeroGrow company has responded to the initial publication of this article in a concerned, constructive manner.

Amazon.com's extraordinary emphasis on the user experience drives their continued success Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Many online retailers are flat-out incompetent in their use of shopping-cart technology. They will actually delete your shopping cart within minutes if you don't complete your order right away. It's a very simple programming trick to preserve the shopping cart and I don't know why more online retailers don't do it. Getting to know you Amazon.com also understands customer profiling without invading customer privacy. In other words, Amazon.

Consumer fraud alert: Swiss Diamond non-stick cookware made with same chemical as Teflon Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Comments found on various online retailers through a Google search for "Swiss Diamond cookware.") The pans are also characterized as, "One of the most durable cookware lines on the market today. Their superior non-stick coating is able to withstand the abuse of metal utensils and dishwashers." The NextTen catalog (www.NextTen.com) specifically implies that Swiss Diamons pans contain no Teflon: "Ordinary non-stick surfaces can't handle those high cooking temperatures. They start to break down and degrade on some stovetops.

Amazon.com's extraordinary emphasis on the user experience drives their continued success Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's a very simple programming trick to preserve the shopping cart and I don't know why more online retailers don't do it. Getting to know you Amazon.com also understands customer profiling without invading customer privacy. In other words, Amazon.com will suggest books and products that might interest you based on the things you purchased already -- yet you'll never get spam or a bunch of junk mail from Amazon.com that's off topic. You'll only get information from Amazon.com that is relevant to you as a customer based on your purchasing behavior.

I can't tell you how many other online retailers have lost my business simply because their search function was flat-out horrible. You type in what you're looking for and, even when they carry that product, their built-in search engine can't even find it. So, if you really want a good-quality search function, then go to Amazon.com. I think it's the best online retailer in the business. Shopping cart wizardry Amazon.com's shopping cart is quite a marvel of modern technology.

It gives you options that most online retailers can only dream of, such as the ability to group your items into as few shipments as possible, or have them shipped as quickly as possible even if it means shipping them separately at additional cost. That's a wonderful feature and it gives the customer choice of convenience versus cost. I also love Amazon's prime program, which is a program where you pay a flat annual fee to get free second-day shipping on (almost) everything you order for the next year. I must have saved hundreds of dollars on shipping by now thanks to that program.

It's not only a cost-saving feature for users who buy a lot of products online, it's also a great customer loyalty function for them, because now, if I'm comparing two different online retailers who carry the same product, I'm always going to choose Amazon.com because the shipping is going to be free. Most likely, when I buy one product with Amazon, I won't stop there. I usually pick up some other recommended items at the same time. Amazon vs. J&R Let me give you a specific example of one case in which I specifically chose Amazon.com over a consumer electronic retailer, J&R.com .

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Campaign of terror against health websites In the year 2000, the FDA began terrorizing health websites and online retailers via email. Using taxpayer funds, the FDA would seek out sites selling nutritional supplements then send them threatening warning letters that accused them of violating federal labeling laws. In such letters, the FDA would quote text from each targeted website, then claim such text was a health claim that caused their supplements to be magically and instantly classified as drugs. If you sell garlic and tell people it causes bad breath, that's just an herb.

Revealed: The best new raw food bars Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And in my opinion, they make most of the food bars found at retail (even at most health food stores) look like candy bars. Of course, it won't be long before these bars also appear in retail, so watch for them there! None of these bars have any of the following unhealthful ingredients: Refined sugars Trans fats / hydrogenated oils Artificial additives, colors or preservatives Dairy or soy products Here's the list: (Oh, by the way, in case you didn't already know, none of these companies paid me to be listed here. These are all independent, unsolicited reviews.

Amazon.com's extraordinary emphasis on the user experience drives their continued success Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Amazon's search function is right on target and it's amazing what it can find just from a few keywords entered into the search box. If you think about it, when you enter a search term, you know that you're looking for a particular piece of information -- such as an author's name, a book title or a DVD title -- but the Amazon.com search engine doesn't know that at all. It has to take a guess based on its inventory to try to find what it thinks you want, and given that the Amazon.

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