There’s a full-scale war being waged against natural-health advocates. It’s revving up as more health care practitioners embrace natural-healing modalities and the general population realizes the benefits of healthy preventative-care living. That’s not good news for the medical industrial complex. And it is retaliating by launching attacks against the effectiveness and legitimacy of natural health...
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There is a trend line that grows more distinct and owns a measurable niche in this world — and in the next few years, it will grow even stronger. It can’t be found anywhere in the existing paradigm. But if you glance outside the paradigm, you will find legions of physicians embracing whole health and...
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Ethnic home cooking goes suburban…
Cook Vietnamese pho with imported rice sticks, grab some fermented soybeans, or just purchase some banana flower or Korean bean sprouts. The reviews are in: Oriental Pantry is a hit in Minot, a North Dakota city of 47,000 that has seen a 17 percent population increase since 2010. This is a city where Asians were...
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Supermarkets must act fast. Ethnic markets are already saturating larger American cities like Baltimore. Thanks in part to millennials and their adventurous palates, they’re now showing up in smaller cities with quietly growing immigrant and millennial populations. Look for chain supermarkets to begin expanding ethnic options, which, in turn, may raise prices of groceries at...
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Drawing Points
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Winter retreat for mind, body and spirit
Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute have announced an exhilarating and unique weeklong retreat designed to explore the powerful trends that will unfold in the year ahead — all while enjoying the tranquil and healing resources of a beautiful 30-acre setting in Southwest Florida. “Prepare for 2016” features Celente, natural health powerhouse Gary Null, institute analysts and health and well-being experts — all charged with...
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Demographers still don’t get new aging
Living longer is no guarantee of living well. As the Trends Research Institute has forecast for years, marketers, retailers and developers of health care products for the aging fall short of maximizing the purchasing power of the huge boomers/seniors population. Why? Their focus is almost exclusively on coping products and services. As we forecast in...
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Artful Aging as a dynamic trend line will emerge slowly, but emerge it will. The next big wave will come with the rise of wellness and longevity centers focused on combining gentle, more holistic and natural-health practices to enhance quality of life beyond coping. Creative “scenes” also will emerge inside these sophisticated, smaller cities, attracting...
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Faster, cheaper light-based telecom
Digital telecommunication runs on light: Computers’ electrical signals are translated into pulses of light that travel through fiber-optic cables. A research team based at the technology university ETH Zurich has made a translator that’s 100 times smaller than today’s devices — and simpler and faster. The result: Computers, and possibly an Internet, that would use...
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The discovery broadens possibilities for light-based computing and promises stark energy savings at a time when engineers envision every object in the world communicating over the Internet.