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Squirrels know best: nuts make you live longer

November 27, 2013

Afew nuts a day might make you live longer, a newly published study in the New England Journal of Medicine says. “Compared with those who did not eat nuts, individuals who consumed nuts (serving size of one ounce) seven or more times per week had a 20 per cent lower death rate and this association

Country Crossroads, News

Do you need a supplement?

By Julie Garden-Robinson April 7, 2012

Vitamins and minerals have numerous functions in our body. Some people are at nutritional risk and need a dietary supplement more than other people. Pregnant women, breast-feeding women and those capable of becoming pregnant have special nutritional needs. Young children and older adults may also be at nutritional risk. Strict vegetarians, people who smoke and

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Food Fortification: Still Looking For The Sweet Spot

By Ronald Doering May 19, 2011

Canada has one of the most restrictive discretionary food fortification laws in the western world. Health Canada officials spent the last 15 years trying to develop a comprehensive new policy to allow food companies greater scope for adding vitamins and minerals to their food products. But last year the health minister stopped the proposed new

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Old Cookbooks Interesting, Not Always Accurate

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 17, 2011

As I sorted through my cookbook col lect ion recently, I came upon one I had purchased at a museum. An Army Wife’s Cookbookwas filled with recipes and home remedies. From the book, I learned how to take care of a gunpowder burn with linseed oil and lime. (I hope I never need to use

Country Crossroads

As Usual Moderation Is The Key

By Julie Garden-Robinson November 25, 2010

Who can resist the aroma, texture and flavour of fresh-baked bread? Unfortunately, bread sometimes has been viewed as a villain in the world of weight management and weight loss. Some fad diets completely cut out grains and lots of nutrients in the process. Can we gain weight by regularly eating more calories from bread than

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Edible Pod Peas — A Midsummer Treat – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Albert Parsons July 29, 2010

Other than the salad plants such as lettuce, radish, onions and spinach, the first “main crop” vegetables that we harvest from our vegetable patch are the edible pod peas. What a treat to be able to pick these delectable treats from the vine and simply pop them into our mouths – they could certainly be

Opinion

Quantifying risk through science

October 22, 2009

I found Mr Doering’s article somewhat difficult to follow, as the term science was never explained. Science is knowledge reduced to a system, (New Webster Dictionary). The system almost always used is numbers. Science approaches a problem from the point of view that there is a cause-and-effect scenario at work. Things happen for a reason.

Opinion

The Precautionary Principle Is Not The Answer – for Oct. 8, 2009

By Ronald Doering October 8, 2009

Food safety regulators cope every day with applying science-based standards to complex fact situations. The task is tough enough when the science is relatively certain but when the science is not so clear – and this is far more common than is generally recognized – then the regulator faces a truly daunting challenge. In recent

Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

Project Soy Creates New Products

By Jim Romahn April 2, 2009

Soybeans could begin cutting into the maple syrup market sometime soon. Anita Chung and Evelyn Yeh, winners of this year’s Project Soy competition among students at the University of Guelph, have developed a maple syrup knockoff product from a blend of soybean protein and fibre. Peter Hannam, who started the competition in 1996 when he

Daily Network News

CBOT Weekly: USDA predicts declines in planting intentions

Protein Industries Canada funds Saskatchewan pulse ingredient project

February canola crush up from 2025, StatCan reports

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