March 17, 2005
Eat yogurt and create some wind
Pat Spears and Bob Gough (pictured above, left and center), of the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, met up with our CE'Yo Gary (above, right) in Colorado this week. Gary spoke about environmental sustainability and business consolidation at an event sponsored by the Denver-based Colorado Environmental Business Alliance/P3 Colorado.
Pat and Bob were representing NativeEnergy, an organization which sells renewable energy credit (REC) investments in sustainable energy projects as one way companies, organizations and individuals can "offset" their carbon dioxide emissions. Stonyfield has purchased shares of the RECs from the Rosebud St. Francis Wind Farm on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
In the photo above, the three are hovered about a new yogurt lid, coming soon to our yogurt cups, which will feature NativeEnergy.
March 11, 2005
Forget the Scope & TicTacs, pass the yogurt
At a big important convention this week--the International Association for Dental Research--researchers outlined the results of a study that seemed to indicate that eating yogurt could do away with halitosis--the dreaded bad breath.
Hurrah! While we here at Stonyfield are always on the lookout for all the good things yogurt can do for you, this one took us by surprise. Maybe we'll start producing a minty-fresh version. What do you think?
Okay, the study only included 24 people who ate 6 ounces of yogurt a day---(to which we say, "Hey, that's not nearly enough! We eat 6 ounces before breakfast!")-- for six weeks. In the end, they were shown to have lower levels of odor-causing compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide, in their mouths.
The study results suggest that the active bacteria in yogurt, specifically Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus, may have a beneficial effect on odor-causing bacteria in the mouth. (We have four more beneficial bacterias in our yogurts, but we won't get into that here.)
The study participants also had lower levels of plaque and the gum disease gingivitis. Now that's interesting.
We're not ready to make these claims just yet, but if you're interested, you can read up on all the good cultures in our yogurts here.
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