BPA – formally, Bisphenol A – has been condemned by healthy eating activists and some medical authorities as a carcinogen. However, the jury is still out on just how much it takes to trigger a tumor. A new study reveals that we get what sounds like a lot of exposure to BPA from food cans…Read More →
You gotta have Bees. Hives and hives and hives of Bees. Otherwise, at least a third of all your food crops don’t get pollinated and there’s a massive crop failure. And that’s a good way to trigger severe food shortages which, in turn, will trigger dramatic food price increases. Read More →
I know this seems counter-intuitive, but, when a whole hockey shift of Yale doctors says so, it bears further consideration. A new report on a study of people who skip breakfast suggests that it’s worse to skip the first meal of the day than it is to have a second breakfast at Coffee time!Read More →
Fast food player A&W Canada has announced it will offer French’s Ketchup and Mustard exclusively, at its Canadian burger outlets. Another victory for All-Canadian Ketchup! The announcement this morning came just a week after the big kerfuffle over Loblaw’s ‘de-listing’ of French’s Ketchup.Read More →
This is just to be sure you’ve seen the news… A Facebook post about eating Avocado Pits got more than 25 million views this past week but, if you’re one of the folks who took the post at its word, listen up! The California Avocado Growers Association warns against taking them internally…Read More →
It’s been almost ten years since Canada’s Food Guide, the official Health Canada nutrition guide for families and institutions, was revised, to keep up to date with evolving food preferences and developments in biological and medical science. And critics want the next version to be more objective…Read More →
Once or twice a year, the issue of genetically modified (GMO) foods crops up (pun intended) in the news. These appearances usually coincide with the announcement that another GMO food product has been authorized for sale to the public. This time it’s a new take on an old, faithful Potato…Read More →
Remember when there were almost as many Dunkin Donuts shops as Tim’s stores in most Canadian cities? Remember when they all disappeared, after Dunkin’s admitted it couldn’t compete with Tim’s on Tim’s home turf? Did you know Dunkin’s still had unfinished business in Quebec?Read More →