Original sentence: All education activities are science-based and not related to specific product brands.Many of the company's guidelines for ensuring product purity and quality, developed over many years due to the previous lack of government standards, were used as the foundation for the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) legislation of 1998.The company is a proponent of consumer education, and runs an ongoing free lecture series with nutrition and health experts for both customer and employee education.The company operates Thirt-one retail grocery stores in Colorado, Texas and New Mexico
Edited sentence: All education activities are science-based, refer to most recent published studies, and not related to specific product brands.As a consequence, its customers tend to be highly aware of and focused on the link between a good diet and improved health, using the Natural Grocers stores as a "food farmacy".In August 2009, Whole Foods acknowledged its longtime lack of focus on nutrition education and the link bewteen diet and health, and vowed repent its gourmet luxe market positioning.Many of the company's guidelines for ensuring product purity and quality, developed over many years due to the previous lack of existing government standards, were used as the foundation for the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) legislation of 1998.The company differs distinctly from "gourmet natural supermarkets" like Whole Foods in that it refuses to promote or sell many indulgent but often unhealthy and expensive processed foods.The company is a longtime proponent of consumer education about health and nutrition, and runs an ongoing free lecture series with nutrition and health experts for both customer and employee education.The company operates 33 retail grocery stores in Colorado, Texas, Utah and New Mexico