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Nutrafol; A Holy Grail for Hair Loss or an Overpriced Supplement?

8 Nov 2024

Hair loss is a normal component of the natural hair growth cycle. Hair growth occurs in three stages: the growth phase where the hair grows for around 2-7 years, the transition phase where the...

Are Füm’s Essential Oils Safe to Inhale?

1 Nov 2024

“It’s like some… like a wooden cigarette that gives you flavours, but it’s not even a cigarette, you don’t even light it.”

Instant Coffee and Acrylamide: Should You Be Worried?

25 Oct 2024

Coffee is a staple beverage for millions of people worldwide, consumed in endless scenarios: catching up with a friend, powering through an intense study session, or simply kickstarting the day....

Processing Information About Processed Meat

8 Oct 2024

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization lists processed meats in its “Category 1,” reserved for substances known to cause cancer in humans....

We Are Exposed to Thousands and Thousands of Chemicals

4 Oct 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. “Three thousand six hundred food packaging chemicals detected in human bodies: How reheating food is killing us.”

Genetic Engineering Has Been Applied to Cheese Making: No Reason to Be Cheesed Off.

24 Sep 2024

Cheese producers were cheesed off.  People were just not eating enough veal.  Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch.  There was not...

Real Gold or Fool’s Gold: The Controversies of Bee Pollen

20 Sep 2024

The earliest evidence of human consumption of bee products can be traced back to a painting from between 8000-5000 B.C. in Spain. The Greeks considered pollen to be the food of kings. There is a...

What Does a Health Canada Issued “Natural Product Number (NPN)” on a Supplement Mean?

18 Sep 2024

Prescription drug sales in Canada amount to roughly $50 billion a year. That’s a lot of money, but the $13 billion pulled in annually by the natural health products industry isn’t small potatoes...

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