A looming chickpea shortage is on the way
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Chickpeas are nutritional powerhouses for consumers who don’t necessarily opt for animal proteins or can't afford them
Tag: Nutrition
Excess sugar costs Canada $5 billion each year: study
HEALTH: Researchers urge use of taxation, education and subsidies to encourage better eating habits
The kids are not all right when it comes to what they eat
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: It’s time for Canada to regulate marketing food to kids. But regulating marketing is no cakewalk (FREE)
Don’t be so quick to condemn processed foods
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: It’s played an essential role in offering edible, safe and nutritious foods to all Canadians, yet food processing remains misunderstood (FREE)
Canadians still love meat, regardless of COVID-19
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Recalls and plant shutdowns due to COVID-19 couldn’t keep Canadians away from the meat counter. But prices did reach the sticker-shock point
Eat your fruits and veggies for the sake of your immunity
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: The best medicine, virus or not, is sound nutrition. One of the major pieces to building a strong immunity system is eating more fruits and vegetables (FREE)
Betting on the booming plant protein food market
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Many consumers are revisiting their relationship with animal proteins, both at the meat counter and in the dairy products section
Grocery stores bulking up on ultra-processed foods
JEAN-CLAUDE MOUBARAC: Far too many products in Canada’s stores give us lots of calories but little nutrition. And we have dangerously abandoned cooking and meal-time routines
The invaluable power of healthy skepticism
PETER STOCKLAND: Usain Bolt became the fastest human being ever by eating – wait for it – Chicken McNuggets, not following the latest health care fad
Taking a bite out of the dangerous notion that food is medicine
DYLAN MACKAY: Pseudoscience and quackery love the food-is-medicine philosophy because it helps them sell their nutritional supplements, diet books and therapy sessions
Three nutrition trends to stay away from
DYLAN MACKAY: Skip the cleanses, alkaline diets and IV vitamin therapy; there’s no evidence they work and plenty of evidence they can be harmful (FREE membership content)
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