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Researchers now say there’s scant evidence chicken is healthier  than red meat.

Beef and pork healthy choices too

Researchers say there’s no correlation between meat choice and blood cholesterol levels

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 25, 2019

Chicken consumption has soared in recent years due to a presumption that it’s a healthier choice, but researchers now say that might not be so. The assumption is that poultry, due to its lower levels of saturated fatty acids, would contribute to lower blood cholesterol levels. Two recent clinical trials, from the Lawrence Berkeley National

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Partially hydrogenated oils on the way out

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 20, 2017

The federal government has served a year’s notice on partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) as ingredients in foods sold in Canada. Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor announced Friday that PHOs will be added to Canada’s List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances effective Sept. 15, 2018, giving Canadian food processors and importers “enough time to find

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Canadian researcher touts benefits of barley

A Canadian research review has found barley can play a role in reducing harmful types of cholesterol 

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 27, 2016

A research review from a Canadian hospital says there’s a clear link between eating barley and reduced levels of two types of “bad cholesterol” that are associated with heart disease. The paper, written by researchers at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, was published recently in The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It included 14 studies on

Replacing butter with vegetable oils might not be as healthy as originally thought.

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Did butter get a bad rap?

It’s not health food, but butter may be healthier than other options  like high-linoleic acid oils

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 25, 2016

Butter might be better. Since the 1960s, consumers have been told to swap butter and other saturated fats with “heart healthy” options like vegetable oils high in linoleic acid. Now a re-examination of previously unpublished data from the study that first made that claim is casting doubt. Researchers at the University of North Carolina School

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U.S. may lower cholesterol’s level of threat to health

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 10, 2015

Washington | Reuters — A U.S. advisory panel reviewing national dietary guidelines has decided to drop its caution against eating cholesterol-laden food, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. At a December meeting, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee discussed its decision to no longer deem cholesterol a “nutrient of concern,” according to the Post. The last set

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Eating the whole egg better for heart health

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 17, 2013

The American Egg Board is promoting new research that suggests eating the whole egg is better for heart health than only egg whites. While consumers concerned about their cholesterol have been advised to limit their consumption of eggs to just the whites, a study involving middle-aged men and women with metabolic syndrome (a combination of

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Recipe Swap, Nov. 29, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson December 6, 2012

Soybeans have become a success story for agriculture in Manitoba. That sea of soy this past summer was a record-breaking 857,000 acres. Yet familiar as we’ve become with growing it, it’s a relative rarity in our diet. We may drink soy beverages more often, or sprinkle a little soy sauce on our stir-fries, or consume

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How do you like them apples?

October 17, 2012

The old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” holds up to scientific scrutiny, especially when it comes to heart health, new research from Ohio State University (OSU) suggests. In a study of healthy, middle-aged adults, consumption of one apple a day for four weeks lowered by 40 per cent blood levels of

Livestock

Richardson Centre For Functional Foods And Nutraceuticals Marks Fifth Anniversary

By Lorraine Stevenson June 2, 2011

When James Richardson International made a multimillion donation to the University of Manitoba in 2006 to set up the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, words like antioxidants, probiotics and plant sterols were mostly the stuff of the science labs, not lunchroom chatter. Those words are heard more often nowadays, as products containing them

Country Crossroads

Be Good To Your Heart

April 28, 2011

Your beating heart is a fist-sized pumping system with four valves and four chambers. Various blood vessels carry blood to and from the heart. It circulates blood to every cell in your body as it pumps an average of 100,000 times per day. The pumping action carries oxygen and nutrients that we need to stay

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