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You can cut calories and still enjoy eating out

A few small adjustments to how you order and eat can really add up quickly

By Julie Garden-Robinson December 19, 2016

What’s your favourite episode of ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’?” my daughter asked her siblings. Her brother and sister began describing the antics of SpongeBob, a yellow kitchen sponge who lives in a pineapple at the bottom of the sea. He works as a dedicated fry cook with an interesting bunch of characters at a restaurant. My kids

Labelling is intended to make things simpler for consumers but sometimes it just adds to the confusion.

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Labelling helps consumers make healthy choices… or does it?

Sometimes labels actually cause consumers to make false assumptions about the foods they’re consuming

By Robert Giblin June 17, 2016

Food labelling can give helpful information to consumers looking to make healthy choices. But as more food labels pop up, consumers can too easily associate a specific label with certain health outcomes, overestimating the value and risk a label implies. Many of today’s food labels create either a “halo effect,” implying the food is more

Recipe Swap

Take a 100-Meal Journey

Gate to Plate: Baked Eggs With Lentils, Peppers And Tomatoes  and Chicken, Swiss And  Vegetable Bulgur Salad 

By Lorraine Stevenson March 4, 2016

If you know you should be eating better, but don’t, you’re not alone. The national 2015 Tracking Nutrition Trends survey which asks Canadians questions about their dietary habits shows many of us appear to have just stopped trying, with 35 per cent saying they’re actually making less of an effort to improve their eating habits

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Try singing the ’12 ways to health’ song

Prairie Fare: Apple Smiles

By Julie Garden-Robinson December 18, 2015

Mom, they just played that song!” my 12-year-old said. I think she wanted us to change the radio station. “That was a different singer, though. I think everyone likes it, so they play it a lot,” I said as we listened to the radio station that plays all holiday music. Soon one of her favourites

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No such thing as ‘bad’ foods

Top experts say labelling some foods 'bad' makes people want them even more

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 14, 2015

Nutrition experts attending the SINU (La Società Italiana di Nutrizione Umana) 36th national congress last week said singling out foods as being bad or good is counterproductive to healthy eating. “In the absence of specific medical contraindications, it is probably counterproductive to categorize a single food as a ‘bad’ food and establish rigid bans on

Butter lovers are smiling because of better news about health, and 2014 consumption was almost six per cent higher than the previous five-year average.

Dairy cattle, News

Butter back in consumers’ good books

Once the bad boy of foods, butter is regaining its place  at the table as consumers look to richer tastes

By Shannon VanRaes November 6, 2015

Consumers are beginning to warm up to butter — again. After years of anti-fat admonishments, diets and fads, butter is regaining popularity, according to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. “It’s an amazing story, because years ago the medical profession said butter was bad for you,” said Henry Holtman, the organization’s vice-chairman. “Now that whole opinion has

Opinion

Agricultural interests object to healthy eating recommendations

By Daryll E. Ray, Harwood D. Schaffer November 2, 2015

Thomas Vilsack, secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Sylvia Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appeared before the House Agriculture Committee on Oct. 7 to respond to criticism of the “Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee” by members of the agriculture committee. Chief

Each 50-gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 per cent, according to a WHO study.

International news, News

Processed meat causes cancer; red meat suspected

Study says 34,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are attributable to diets high in processed meat

By Gus Trompiz October 27, 2015

Paris / Reuters | Eating processed meat can lead to bowel cancer in humans while red meat is a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Monday in findings that could sharpen debate over the merits of a meat-based diet. The France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of

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Are potatoes fattening?

Prairie Fare: Potato Pancakes and Herb and Sweet Onion Scalloped Potatoes

By Julie Garden-Robinson September 18, 2015

Mom, why don’t we make these at home?” my daughter asked as she took her first bite of a potato dumpling. We were at the Barnesville, Minnesota Potato Days. I call it my “annual pilgrimage for potato dumplings.” “This wouldn’t be a treat if I made potato dumplings at home,” I said. I was pondering

She wouldn’t be so worried if she was assured the processing procedures were the same as in the U.S.

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Americans will buy imported meat if assured of standards

USDA should help consumers make more informed decisions 

By Journal Of Retailing Release August 10, 2015

With Congress currently debating the repeal of mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) for meat and poultry — federal law in the U.S. since 2002 — new research from the Sam W. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas shines a spotlight on how COOL labelling affects consumers’ purchase decisions. In “A COOL Effect: The

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slow descent

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat plummet from highs on limited Chinese demand

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices starting to pick up

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