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Posted on May 8, 2014 by Margaret Schlachter
  Chia seeds and all things chia have exploded onto the market after the book Born to Run popularized them when talking about the diets of the Tarahumara people. Today chia is everywhere and with good reason, it’s awesome. OK I am biased but really it’s great stuff. If you haven’t......
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Posted on March 11, 2014 by Margaret Schlachter
For years I prided myself on NOT drinking coffee, then I started to train again and mornings got earlier and nights got later. An early morning cup of coffee now sets the mood for the day whether it be a daybreak run or marathon day of writing articles. Recently, I......
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Posted on October 17, 2013 by Margaret Schlachter
Epic Bars Be Epic. Eat Epic. The final of the new products showcased at Hunter Gatherer were a new bar called Epic Bar. Not your traditional protein bar filled with a bunch of items you can’t pronounce their names. Instead an Epic Bar is filled with meat, nuts and dried......
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Posted on October 16, 2013 by Margaret Schlachter
These days, chia seeds, coconut, goji berries and hemp seeds are to the nutrition industry what buzz words like productivity, mechanization, and streamline are to business. It use to be only a few specialized stores sold items such as this, whereas today they can be found in almost every grocery......
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Posted on October 14, 2013 by Margaret Schlachter
Recently at Hunter Gatherer – Survival Run and Ultra marathons I had the opportunity to try out a few products. The first of which was Emergen-C. Actually a product which is already around the house, but had a chance to become reacquanted with the product. I first learned of Emergen-C......