Natural product industry fund provides scholarships, networking for HBCU students
The Organic & Natural Health Association (https://organicandnatural.org/)’s partnership with the Williams-Franklin Foundation (https://www.wmsfranklinfoundation.org/) will open more opportunities in the natural products industry for students and graduates of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU). Specifically, Organic & Natural Health committed to help raise US$50,000 for the Williams-Franklin Foundation--a nonprofit that provides scholarships, networking and mentoring opportunities to HBCU students with extreme financial need--during the next five years. While Organic & Natural Health started the partnership, this is an industry-wide initiate.
In this podcast, Karen Howard, CEO and executive director, Organic & Natural Health Association, and Brian Terry, national sales manager, Nordic Naturals (https://www.nordicnaturals.com/consumers/), join Sandy Almendarez, senior content director, Informa Markets, to discuss the importance of this program and the beneficial ripple effects it will have to improve the natural products industry.
29 Mar 2021
CBD—the professional, and the personal
ToddCast Episode 5:The medicinal value of hemp CBD has been proven with FDA approval of a CBD isolate drug. Even so, the forces aligned against its widespread use remain. Sean Murphy, founder of Hemp Business Journal and now with WAFBA producing the NoCo Hemp Expo in Denver (and online) March 25-27, https://www.nocohempexpo.com/ (https://www.nocohempexpo.com/) talks with Insider senior editor Todd Runestad about:
Murphy’s young son, Atlas, born with a terminal brain condition—and how, even in the cannabis capital of Colorado, he has been unable to legally use CBD to help.
What the leading hemp companies are doing to stay ahead sustainably.
The opportunities for hemp beyond medicinal—nutritional, textiles, biomaterials.
12 Mar 2021
HEAP takes a leap at vitamin D deficiency in BIPOC community
Health Equity & Advocacy Project (HEAP) just launched, its mission to educate and inspire Blacks and other melanin-challenged populations to get their vitamin D levels up to healthy. Their lives may depend on it.
The merging of #BLM with COVID has created a moment where the Black community’s health outcomes with the pandemic is worse than most—as is vitamin D blood levels, and a slew of published research over the past year has shown at least a correlation between vitamin D deficiency and worse COVID-19 outcomes. Brian Terry, national sales manager at Nordic Naturals, saw opportunity. He sat down with Insider senior editor Todd Runestad to discuss:
That an incredible 82% of Blacks are vitamin D deficient, compard to 63% Latinx and 31% White. What can vitamin D do to help peoples’ health status?
Why supplementation is the only realistic solution.
Terry is a Black man in a White industry. What has his experience been—are natural products people really full of peace and love?
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