Health & Wellness

Imagine re-inventing the fast-food industry with a healthy theme? 

The fast-food industry generates $142 billion in sales each year (2006), and is represented by McDonald’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Subway, and so on. With a social trend in emphasizing healthier diets, many fast food chains have increased their menu options to include healthy choices such as salads and fruits.

How about creating a new fast-food brand that focuses 100% on providing customers with burgers that are both healthy and tasty?

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Obesity among children is a huge issue in the US. What is its cause?  The answer is simple. They are not eating right at home and at school.
This week’s new startup idea focuses on elementary school lunch nutrition management and education services. With a scientifically constructed approach, this startup will help reduce chronic health issues among children, by assessing the situation before and after the school switches their approach to their lunch menu.
This is a complicated start-up idea because it requires solid knowledge of nutrition, food management, and involvement with local leaders and government.  Please provide your ideas, as well, to help solve this growing health issue. 

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“Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!” Don’t mind the “feet” part of this rhyme for now, but let’s do give the kids something good to eat this coming Halloween. But what’s “good”?

As a health food freak, I don’t like the idea of loading kids with Hershey’s chocolate bars or Kit-Kat bars (though they indeed are yummy). At the same time, I don’t want to see disappointed faces when I give out crackers and fruits. So this year, I am thinking about the well-proven business idea called repackaging.

Trick’em with healthy snacks and treat’em with imagination.

Let’s see if this article inspires you (or tricks you) into starting a new home business that may have legs. 

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With aging population and fewer children, care-giving for elderly is becoming a big issue in the US.  This is a family care-giver social networking site where care-givers can help each other by exchanging care-giving tasks. 

Finding someone to help your mom on the dates / schedules you have conflicts with, while you cover the person on another occasion

Finding someone who lives in the neighborhood of your care-taker, while you help the person’s care-taker who lives in your neighborhood

Finding someone who is good at the task you are not good at (e.g. lifting), while you help the person for the task the person is not good at (e.g. cooking)

Setting up a social networking site ain’t rocket science. Read more details in the full post. 

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For the health-conscious person who exercises now and then, Electro-Lite is the diet sports drink that replenishes electrolytes to your body without all the sugar, so you can actually stay fit and healthy.

This concept takes advantage of the poor positioning by Gatorade on their sugar loaded sports drink and electrolyte poor fitness water. Learning from the business building approach of Odwalla, it aims to build a superior brand of beverage for health concerned average consumers. More detailed business strategy follows in the full-post.

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