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WHO issues its first guidelines for sodium intake for children

By Stephanie Nebehay February 12, 2013

Reuters / The World Health Organization (WHO) has for the first time recommended limits on children’s daily consumption of sodium, which it hoped would help in the global fight against diet-related diseases becoming chronic among all populations. In advice to its 194 member states Jan. 31, the UN agency noted high sodium levels were a

Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap, Aug. 9

By Lorraine Stevenson August 10, 2012

RecipeSwap New rules for labelling help those with allergies Reading the label on food products just got easier for those living with allergies or celiac disease — and squinting at the fine print. Last week Health Canada unveiled new rules for what must be declared on food labels so you can tell at a glance

Hogs, Livestock, News

China panics over meat-free diet for athletes

July 20, 2012

Reuters / Chinese coaches and officials are panicking that meat-free diets imposed on Olympic athletes outside their training camps are hampering their performances in the lead-up to the London Games. Chinese athletes have been ordered to minimize the risk of accidental doping from clenbuterol-tainted meat this year by steering clear of pork, lamb and beef.

Cereals, Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Use more pulses, wholegrains for a gluten-free diet

By Lorraine Stevenson May 30, 2012

You’re probably seeing more gluten-free products on your store shelves lately. But while all those new pastas, breads and cereals help those with a diagnosis of celiac disease or gluten sensitivity manage their complicated eating plan, they aren’t the most nutritious foods they could be eating. Why pulses? Pulses are naturally gluten free, but

Livestock, News

Study suggests red meat cheers you up

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 14, 2012

Amidst a bevy of studies surgesting red meat consumption is bad for your body, Australian researchers say not eating enough of it is linked to depression and anxiety. Associate Professor Felice Jacka and colleagues from Deakin University’s Barwon Psychiatric Research Unit have studied the relationship between the consumption of beef and lamb and the presence

News, Opinion

The challenge of raising informed consumers

By Barb Galbraith April 30, 2012

One hundred years ago when Canadians often butchered their own meat and pulled vegetables from their own gardens, they did not need to contemplate the source of their food. They could see it with their own eyes. Today, our access to food is so easy that we need not contemplate the source either. There are

News

Manitobans challenged to DIG IN

By Lorraine Stevenson April 20, 2012

Initiative of Food Matters Manitoba challenges Manitobans to spend $10 a week of their grocery money on a local food purchase An urban-based food issues think-tank is challenging Manito-bans to make this the year they start buying more local food and connecting with the people who grow it. The Dig In Challenge is a five-month

Livestock, News, Poultry

Study gives more reasons for passing on red meat

March 24, 2012

(Reuters) People who eat a lot of red meat are more likely to die at any given time than those who go light on the burgers and hotdogs, according to a U.S. study that followed more than 100,000 people over several decades. The more servings of both processed and unprocessed red meat people reported eating

Crops, Dairy cattle, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Plant product to go toe to toe with meat and dairy?

By Tamara Leigh March 14, 2012

A researcher says the global food problem is not feeding people, but animals Livestock agriculture is an obsolete technology, says Stanford researcher, Patrick O. Brown. “Animal farming is by far the biggest ongoing global environmental catastrophe,” says Brown. “It’s an inefficient technology that hasn’t changed for a millennia.” In a presentation to the American Association

Hogs, Livestock, News

Precision pork production — a vision of the future

By Bernie Peet February 16, 2012

Imagine a finishing barn where each pig receives exactly the right amount of nutrients each day to optimize its growth, maximize the efficiency of nutrient use and minimize the excretion of waste. A barn where sophisticated feeding equipment identifies each pig and delivers a precise dose of blended feed using complex mathematical models to predict

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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