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Exercise and nourish your joints

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I had spent many hours gardening one day last summer, and had awakened some neglected muscles. They were not happy after several hours of raking, shovelling and hauling heavy planters filled with soil around the backyard. On the positive side though, I burned quite a few calories. According to a calorie expenditure website, an adult
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Bayer CropScience provides scholarships

Bayer CropScience Canada Inc. is offering the Bayer CropScience Scholarship for Future Leaders to recognize students who have shown leadership and made a significant contribution to agriculture. Five $5,000 annual scholarships will be awarded at leading Canadian agriculture universities to students who have led the way through leadership and engagement, and made a difference to
Crops, News

Award-winning Manitoba micronutrient company explains its products

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Wolf Trax Innovative Micronutrients is one of those overnight successes 14 or more years in the making. The Winnipeg-based firm and recent recipient of the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation Innovation Award, has been quietly building sales of its patented Dry Dispersible Powder (DDP) micronutrient fertilizer coating in 75 regulatory regions, including the U.S., Mexico
Crops

Be careful applying micronutrients, says soil scientist Don Flaten

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Some Manitoba soils need micronutrients but “they are very rare,” says Don Flaten, a soil scientist at the University of Manitoba. “We tend to have some of the most fertile soils in North America here (in Western Canada) partly because they’re young,” he said in an interview. “They’re recently glaciated and mixed up and they
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How do you like them apples?

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
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McDonald’s does turnabout, embraces calorie labelling

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Reuters / A Big Mac and large fries? They don’t take a big bite out of your wallet, but they’ll cost you 1,050 calories. Beginning this month, McDonald’s will start listing calorie information on menus in some 14,000 U.S. restaurants and drive-throughs. Rules are coming that would force such disclosures, but McDonald’s move will likely
Hogs, Livestock, News

Variable creep feed intake confounds trial results

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The benefits of creep feeding are notoriously variable, with some research trials showing a positive benefit and others showing no advantage. Even taking into account factors such as weaning age, length of the creep-feeding period, and type of diet fed, it is somewhat of a mystery why the outcomes are not more consistent. So what’s
Country Crossroads, News

New food products head to school

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New food products head to school NuEats brand part of Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network’s effort to promote functional foods made from Manitoba-grown ingredients Barley waffles and tortilla chips, a yogurt-granola bar, and sundaes topped with saskatoons and oatmeal are some of the made-in-Manitoba foods headed to university this month — for a taste test. If
News, Opinion

Measuring food safety

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How safe is our food? What is the economic cost of foodborne illness? How does Canada’s food safety performance compare to other countries? In spite of what you may have read recently, we don’t have clear answers to any of these questions, nor will we anytime soon. Not everything that counts can be counted, as

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