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Canada performs well in the areas of food safety, food security and healthy foods and diets but shows a weaker performance in the areas of industry prosperity and environmental sustainability, according to preliminary results from The Conference Board of Canada’s Canadian Food Observatory’s first annual report card on food. Released today at the Food & Drink Summit 2015 in Toronto, the report assesses Canada’s food and beverage sector performance in five areas against 16 leading peer OECD countries. Identified as key elements in our Canadian Food Strategy, the five domains are: industry prosperity, healthy food and diets, food safety, household food security, and environmental sustainability.  “The...

Many beauty care products available in the market impose many chemicals and environmental hormones, which may contains carcinogenic substance; some carcinogenic ingredients have proved toxic in animal experiments. Because of the powerful advertising brainwashing by the manufacturer, customers are unwittingly spent a lot of money with negative result and also damage the skin. Natural skin care products contain botanical ingredient with no artificial flavours, colors, dimethicone, paraffin oil or synthetic chemical ingredient. Stabilizer and surfactants are all in natural form. Its formula and process is very complicated. Preservative use rosemary, vitamin E and other natural ingredients. It can be placed...

By Dr. Mercola It’s common knowledge that many supplement makers are adding “flow agents” into their capsules. Their only purpose is to keep ingredients from sticking to equipment during mixing and compression. They make manufacturing faster and easier. Magnesium stearate is a commonly used and potentially harmful additive found in many supplements. This substance may possible harm to your intestine, possibly even preventing the proper absorption of nutrients. Magnesium stearate is synthesized using magnesium salt and Stearic Acid – saturated fat. Stearic Acid may occur naturally in many foods, but it does not occur in the synthetic, fractionated, bleached, deodorized...

In humans, melanin is the primary determinant of skin and hair color. However, few people know that melanin is found in almost every organ of the body. Melanin is necessary for the brain and nerves to operate, the eyes to see, and the cells to reproduce. It is also found in the stria vascularis of the inner ear. In the brain, tissues with melanin include the medulla and pigment-bearing neurons within areas of the brainstem, such as the locus coeruleus and the substantia nigra. It also occurs in the zona reticularis of the adrenal gland. Melanin Targets Free Radicals Free...