Health Action Magazine - Food/Nutrition
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Your Winter Vegetable Garden Starts in SummerImagine sweeping aside a bit of snow to discover crisp carrots waiting in the ground below. A chilly trip out to the garden most winter months can be rewarded with fresh...
Health Action, Summer 2010 - 3K
Aspartame Advice to Chew OnIt is an unusual person who doesn't appreciate fresh-smelling breath. Hence, the popularity of chewing gum at supermarket checkout tills. But every time you pop a piece...
Health Action, Summer 2010 - 4K
SOS: Save Our SeedsIn days gone by, the seeds that grow our food were in the hands of farmers and public-sector plant breeders. Today, however, an increasing amount of seeds-the first link in...
Health Action, Winter 2009/2010 - 1K
Avoid Diabetes ComplicationsType 2 diabetes affects close to 135 million people worldwide. The main contributing factor in most is excessive carbohydrate consumption.
Eating excess carbohydrates on a...
Health Action, Winter 2009/2010 - 4K
Top Tips for Better Digestion & Elimination1. Drink water one hour before a meal or one hour after, but never during meals.
2. Avoid desserts after protein-rich meals.
3. Combine foods wisely: avoid mixing...
HANS Web Exclusive Fall 2009 - 1K
GE Failure to Yield"After years of promotions and promises from the biotechnology industry that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields the promise has proven to be empty,"...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 1K
How to Tell GM Foods by LabelsAn orange is an orange is an orange, right? Not necessarily, according to grocery store PLU (price lookup) codes. These four or five digit numbers, which are assigned to...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 1K
GM Candyland: Modified sugar beets in CanadaAfter genetically modified (GM) sugar beets are first harvested this fall in Alberta, Rogers Sugar/ Lantic will be selling Canadians GM sugar. Lantic Inc. is the only company...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 4K
Flavour Your Fall with Healing HerbsOne of the reasons I enjoy autumn is because of the warming foods we tend to eat. I decided to make Chicken Marbella for friends coming over for dinner on Sunday and was...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 3K
To Eat Less, Love What You Eat"We overeat not because we enjoy food too much; it is because we don't enjoy it enough."
Does the above quote, from Charles Eisenstein's book The Yoga of Eating...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 3K
Is Cost Really a Barrier to Eating Healthy?"It costs so much more to eat healthy. I can't afford it."
Many a holistic nutritionist is used to this common mantra. The truth is, it can actually be cheaper to eat a...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 6K
Corrupt to the Core by Shiv ChopraDr. Shiv Chopra is a modern-day Canadian hero-a "whistleblower" who exposed the corruption and corporate influence within Health Canada that systematically compromised the...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 3K
Conscious Cooking - New eBookHANS Professional Member Alexis Costello has just launched her new ebook, Conscious Cooking. This book is designed to change the way you think about food. By changing the...
October 2009 - 1K
Study: Canadian Agriculture, 2008 in Review The year 2008 was a good year for Canada's grain and oilseed producers. However, livestock producers, particularly hog farmers, felt a cost-price squeeze due to rising feed...
HANS e-News - November 15, 2009 - 1K
Hidden Food Allergies May Be Affecting YouDo you suffer from heartburn, indigestion, occasional nausea? Are you often aggravated by gas and bloating with frequent occurrence of loose or watery stools? You could be...
HANS Web Exclusive Fall 2009 - 8K
Calling All Canadian Organic ConsumersLooking for all things Canadian and organic? A new web resource for all those of us north of the border offers a place for us to research, relax or rant.
The Organic...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 1K
Widespread Call to Stop GM Alfalfa in CanadaOn April 28, 2009, 80 groups including farmer associations and food businesses from across Canada joined the growing call to stop the introduction and field-testing of...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 4K
Sign the "Organic Food for Cancer" PetitionA patient petition asking the BC Cancer Agency to offer organic food selections in their cafeteria has been launched by Victoria resident Val Orchison.
When the realtor...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 2K
Hidden Salt a Risk to ChildrenMardi Joughin loses her sweet disposition when she talks about the dangers of unnecessary salt in processed foods.
When the retired nurse and grandmother of two recently...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 2K
Science Says Skip the SodaThe science is in. We need to skip the soda this summer if we want to get healthy and stay healthy.
Researchers have long suspected that dinking extra calories in the...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 5K
Bee PowerWinnie the Pooh was onto something. He loved honey but was too busy eating it (and getting into mischief) to recognize the miraculous masters of honey making-bees.
Bees...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 2K
The Magic of ManukaHoney is well known as a sweet treat, but it has also been used medicinally for centuries. The Egyptians used it in wound dressings because of its natural antiseptic...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 4K
GM Candyland: Modified sugar beets in CanadaAfter genetically modified (GM) sugar beets are first harvested this fall in Alberta, Rogers Sugar/Lantic will be selling Canadians GM sugar. Lantic Inc. is the only company...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 3K
US Court Defeats Monsanto's Genetically Modified Alfalfa, For Now: Monsanto's Plans in Canada Likely DelayedA US appeals court has rejected an appeal by Monsanto to overturn a ruling that prohibits plantings of genetically modified (GM) alfalfa in the country until the US...
From Media Release - Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 3K
Canada's Fruit and Veggie Production 2009Canadian farmers reported planting 528,000 acres of fruits and vegetables in the spring of 2009, down 3.0 percent from the spring of 2008.
Vegetable growers planted about...
HANS e-News - July 1, 2009 - 1K