Lifestyle

Whole Foods Market is looking to help consumers easily build up resistance to illness by promoting a variety of products that naturally bolster the immune system.

Consumers now can sip their way to a healthier, glowing complexion with Yogi Skin DeTox.

How’s this for an incentive to shape up? TEEKANNE Herbal Wellness Teas’ “Win a Wellness Weekend” sweepstakes offers three winners and guests the chance to spend a “rejuvenating wellness weekend” in Las Vegas, capped by the opportunity to spend some time with tennis great Steffi Graf.

Women’s Health, a New York-based women’s lifestyle publication published by Rodale Inc., launched a new application for the iPhone and iTouch it developed to help consumers achieve their weight-loss goals.

The latest way to better digestive health from Boulder, Colo.-based NextFoods is GoodBelly BigShot 50, a supercharged dose of 50 billion live and active cultures that features the powerful probiotic strain Lactobacillus Plantarum 299v (Lp299v).

As part of its outreach at the American Dietetic Association (ADA) Food and Nutrition Conference in Denver this week, ConAgra Foods has unveiled a new education and awareness-building effort, in the form of a “100 Calories Less” pledge.

Recent studies indicate that Americans of all ages are failing to get their daily recommended servings of fruits and veggies — despite the fact that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can help maintain a healthy weight and reduce the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers (State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables, 2009).

A high-profile lineup will headline Hy-Vee’s Whole Health Experience, a symposium of the latest trends in nutrition, weight loss and physical fitness, on Nov. 8 from noon to 6 p.m.