You have to do a little homework. You have to vet these companies. So how do you do that? Well, in the past, it was you would go to your local health food store. And that's where you would talk to the owner, the family, the employees who had a passion. And they were the gatekeepers who looked at these companies, they bought the best products, and they

transmitted that knowledge to their customers. It's not as easy today. There's a drastic loss of

the independent health food stores. And so you can't go to a big grocery type health food

store these days and ask these questions because

the staff either don't know or aren't enabled to answer things very specifically.

So I always tell people if you've got a good health food store, go there, talk to the people,

find out what kind of a store they are,

and do business with them because they are there because of the passion, the knowledge, and

the desire to help you be better.

Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies

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Here's your host, Karina Belizei.

Hello and welcome to Care More Be Better. Every week I invite you to care more so that together

we can learn and grow and ultimately be better. Today I invite you to get to know a friend

from my work life in the natural products industry,

Steve Langford.

Steve and his wife Debbie began Family Nutrition Center in 1976, which happens to be the year

I was born, as a small independent health food store in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

In July of 2021, after all these years, Family Nutrition Center celebrated its 45th year under one owner.

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