Farmmi Participates in Shanghai International Health, Wellness and Fitness Expo
LISHUI, China, Nov. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Farmmi, Inc. (“Farmmi” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: FAMI), an agriculture products supplier in China, today announced its participation in the Shanghai International Health, Wellness and Fitness Expo (the “Expo”), which was held from November 25 to 27, 2020. The Expo, the largest of its kind in Asia, included edible fungi in its featured products.
The Expo covered a total exhibition area of 54,000 square meters, with 452 national and international brands, gathering 43,076 domestic and international buyers.
Ms. Yefang Zhang, Farmmi’s Chairwoman and CEO, commented, “While we have done an excellent job closing sales opportunities in the new virtual world of 2020, it was exciting for us to get back in front of customers and partners at the Expo. The organizers put necessary safety controls in place to ensure the health of attendees. We thank them for their efforts in making this such a successful expo for all participants.”
“With the improvement of living standards, people are becoming more particular about their health and diet. Farmmi is benefitting from inclusion and wider adoption of edible fungi, which are now a standard part of the new healthy diet structure. Low calorie bacteria with high protein, low fat and high efficacy are now recognized worldwide as nutritional, health foods,” continued Ms. Zhang. “As a leading agricultural products supplier, processor and retailer of Shiitake mushrooms, Mu Er mushrooms, other edible fungi, and many other sought-after agricultural products, Farmmi has the scale and strict controls to build upon customer demand growth worldwide.”
Ms. Zhang concluded, “The Expo, which emphasized technology and innovation, served as an important platform for our company to meet customers, promote products, carry out industry exchanges and seek cooperation opportunities. This is fully in-line with our strategy to seek out and execute on increased business opportunities in both the domestic China market and worldwide.”
About Farmmi, Inc.
Headquartered in Lishui, Zhejiang, Farmmi, Inc. (NASDAQ: FAMI), is a leading agricultural products supplier, processor and retailer of Shiitake mushrooms, Mu Er mushrooms, other edible fungi, and many other sought-after agricultural products. The Company’s Farmmi Liangpin Market serves as a trading platform for Chinese geographical indication agricultural products and is a large platform for consumers to access locally sourced agricultural products. For further information about the Company, please visit: http://ir.farmmi.com.cn/.
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The Fitness and Wellness Industry’s Latest Advice: Give Yourself a Break
Life must be in a rough patch when even the fitness and weight-loss folks are telling people to take it easy.
With cocktail parties and celebratory dinners largely canceled by the pandemic, many purveyors of well-being aren’t issuing their usual holiday missives urging customers to resist second helpings, dodge the cookie tray or mind the nightcaps. Instead, weight-loss programs, fitness apps and lifestyle brands are emphasizing ways that users should be kinder and gentler to themselves.
“A lot of people aren’t celebrating Thanksgiving with the broad family they’re used to, so they’re looking for other moments of joy,” says Mindy Grossman, CEO of WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers. “Part of that is showing them what they can do for themselves.”
Last week, WW launched a new program called myWW+, which includes app tools that allow users to more closely track their mindset and sleep, in addition to their food intake and exercise. Earlier this year the company started a hydration tracker for users to record how many ounces of water they drink each day.
The idea behind these new wellness goals? Letting people find some type of success even when eating and exercise don’t go well. During the shutdown’s early months, 36% of Americans gained weight, with women putting on an average of 10.7 pounds and men 15 pounds, according to a WW survey of 1,004 U.S. adults in May.
29 Fitness and Wellness Gifts for Anyone Who Can’t Stop Streaming Online Workouts
We know it’s hard to find the right gifts for your loved ones, so we’ve compiled a ton of fashion and beauty-focused gift guides tailored to a range of interests and budgets. Check out our latest below and find more right here.
Good health is the greatest gift you can give in 2020, but it’s not so easy to wrap up in box and send to your college roommate. You can, however, send endorphin-boosting gadgets and sweat-friendly sets that will help your friends feel less stressed and more energized. Ahead, we’ve rounded up an assortment of fitness and wellness gifts, from weighted wrist bangles that will intensify your virtual Pilates class to a meditation class with Black Girl Om Founder Lauren Ash. They tend to the body and the mind so that whoever uses them will experience a much-needed sense of calm and happiness going into the new year. Shop them all in the gallery below.
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The Word & Brown Companies Recognized for Top Ad Campaigns by Graphic Design USA Health + Wellness Awards
Graphic Design USA has awarded The Word & Brown Companies seven awards in its 2020 Health + Wellness Design Awards competition including two for best advertising campaign. This year’s contest drew a record 2,500+ entries from organizations across the country, with just 10 percent selected as winners in this premier design showcase.
“We are very excited to earn this national recognition for our work, especially for our advertising campaigns,” said Polly Neves, Executive Vice President of Marketing at The Word & Brown Companies. “We scored the second highest number of wins in the Health + Wellness competition this year, a credit to our small, but talented marketing team’s creativity, as well as our agency collaborators, Modera Inc. and Idea Enablers.”
The Word & Brown General Agency won an award for its 2020 advertising. The 2020 campaign allows Word & Brown to distinguish itself from competitors by focusing on its decades-long commitment to service and the passion of the people delivering it to brokers and their customers. The ads spotlight different aspects of Word & Brown’s offering in a light and fun way – a break from traditional insurance advertising.
CHOICE Administrators won a Health + Wellness Design Award for its “California Different” ad campaign, which launched in 2019. The ad series celebrates and recognizes the differences of each CaliforniaChoice and ChoiceBuilder insurance broker, small business owner, and member. The company coined the phrase, “what makes you California Different” as an overarching theme to both their external and internal communications. Learn more here.
Other winning GDUSA entries for The Word & Brown Companies include: a CaliforniaChoice teaser campaign for the launch of new plans from Anthem Blue Cross; an email series promoting features of the CalChoice website; online communications to promote the redesigned Word & Brown website; a journal for Word & Brown employees; and a COVID-19 direct mail postcard for Word & Brown.
Graphic Design USA’s Health + Wellness Design Awards recognize traditional medical industries like health services, pharmaceuticals, insurance, senior care, and mental health, as well as fitness, organic foods and natural products, life and work balance, spirituality, and public health and education initiatives. Added for the 2020 competition were COVID-19 communications and CBD/medical cannabis categories.
Graphic Design USA has published an online gallery of its 2020 Health + Wellness Design competition here. You can link to four of The Word Companies entries here.
About The Word & Brown Companies
The Word & Brown Companies are comprised of three distinct businesses. Established in 1985, the Word & Brown General Agency is among the nation’s largest General Agents, with a focus on group and individual and family health insurance. CHOICE Administrators is the parent organization for CaliforniaChoice, the nation’s largest multi-carrier, employee-choice, small group private health exchange, and ChoiceBuilder, the nation’s first ancillary benefits exchange. The Companies also offer two no-cost prescription-drug discount cards, the California Rx Card and Nevada Drug Card, which deliver savings of up to 80 percent on prescription medications at more than 68,000 pharmacies
Cow-hugging, an alleged wellness fad, has people cuddling farm animals to relieve stress
In the increasingly hectic and stressful year of 2020, people are seeking calm wherever they can find it — from frolicking through the fields to adopting plants. But now there’s another natural way to restore your cortisol levels: cow-hugging.
People in several parts of the world have begun to embrace the alleged wellness trend, which reportedly originated in the Netherlands, where it is known as “koe knuffelen.”
According to the BBC, the practice of cuddling cows is supposed to reduce stress in humans by releasing the bonding hormone oxytocin.
Cows are chosen specifically for their warm body temperatures and calm demeanor, the outlet reported.
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“Cows are very relaxed animals, they don’t fight, they don’t get in trouble,” a farm owner who promotes the practice told BBC. “You come to the fields and we have some special hugging cows and you can lay next to [them] — people think it’s very relaxing.”
A 2007 study suggested that the practice, which is catching on in the U.S. and Switzerland, benefits the cows as well as the humans.
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Farms in the United States and Switzerland have also adopted the wellness fad, which, according to a 2007 study in the Applied Animal Behavior Science journal, also benefits the cows.
The researchers found when the animals are rubbed, massaged or pet, they experience relaxation and pleasure as well.
“This suggests that cows may in part perceive human stroking of body regions often-licked similarly to social licking,” the researchers write in their study.
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Though, if you’re not near a farm, petting smaller domestic animals has also been shown to lower blood pressure in humans and provide relaxation effects.