Want to know what's REALLY in your beauty products?

The THINK DIRTY App has an easy solution:

http://www.blogher.com/want-know-whats-really-your-beauty-products-think-dirty-app-has-easy-solution?from=pop

Eat these regularly to take care of one of your body's most essential organs.

Kale, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage are powerful brassica vegetables that contain high levels of sulfur, which supports your liver in its detoxification process and helps trigger it to remove free radicals and other toxic chemicals.

Dandelion is another good dark leafy green. One of its chemical components, taraxacin, is believed to stimulate the digestive organs and trigger the liver and gallbladder to release bile, which supports digestion and fat absorption.

http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/wellbeing/best-foods-your-liver?cid=socWB_20150725_49713556&adbid=10153580599654642&adbpl=fb&adbpr=165599879641

Waiting for new pharmaceutical approvals the right approach

Why Canada's 'slow and low' approach is the prudent one to take By Alan Cassels Expert Advisor EvidenceNetwork.ca

Contact Alan VICTORIA, BC/ Troy Media/ - The newest report from Canada's brand name drug makers on access to new drugs has one key message: compared to other countries, Canada goes slow and low. New drugs are slower to be covered by our provincial drug plans and the numbers of people who get access to new drugs are lower than in other countries. The report is undeniably negative: Canadians are suffering because our governments don't provide timely access to new medicines. Produced by Rx&D (the association of Canada's brand name drug manufacturers), the report ranks Canada 17thout of 18 industrialized nations in terms of new drug reimbursement - with only 23 per cent of new medicines covered across the country (it is closer to 90 per cent in the U.S.). As far as the time it takes between when a drug gets approved by Health Canada and when the provinces start paying for it, Canada ranks 16thof 18 countries. Canada's drug makers believe that drug plans in Canada should be more generous and access should be simplified so when new and innovative medications come along - those to conquer cancer, heart disease or other life-threatening conditions - government health plans should quickly pay for them. After all, if they extend the length and quality of our lives, we citizens deserve them, right? But here's the rub: what prescribers know about the potential benefits and harms of a new drug when they arrive on the market is often uncertain or problematic. As new drugs are often studied for a shorter period of time and with a very specific population, the studies often end up with biases, with unpublished data and without a full sense of the overall safety of the drug in the real population. Canada approach of taking the time to decide how, or if, a new drug needs to be covered is the smart way to go. For example, the widely prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx caused as many as 60,000 excess heart attack deaths in North America according to some estimates. But those Canadian provinces which were more restrictive in covering it (such as B.C.) likely had proportionally fewer deaths caused by the drug. According to a new report, the number of new cases of cancer in Canada will rise dramatically over the next 15 years, mostly due to baby boomers acquiring more diseases of aging - and this will drive the demand for more and more effective cancer drugs. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest caution in approaching this new reality. A recent article in the British Medical Journal by two noteworthy pharmaceutical industry analysts, Donald Light and fellow Expert Advisor Joel Lexchin, made the case that cancer drugs are often rushed to market and have faster approvals even when they provide very little gain for patients. Their study, Why do cancer drugs get such an easy ride?, examined nearly 9,000 oncology clinical trials conducted between 2007 and 2010 and compared those studies to drugs for other diseases. They found that cancer drugs were almost three times less likely to be evaluated in randomized studies or tested against comparator drugs, and were more likely to be 'fast-tracked' in approvals than other drugs, casting doubt on the long-term benefit and safety of the drugs. There's also a little bit of sleight of hand around what's being measured. Does it matter if a clinical trial of a new cancer drug gets approved because it shrinks a tumour as opposed to making the patient live longer or healthier? The reality is that many cancer drugs can shrink tumours quite effectively (and expensively) but may not change the length of a person's life, while possibly turning the last few months of a person's life into medically-intensive misery. We all want access to newer and better drugs but could we better spend our cancer budgets towards an array of non-drug options that improve the lives of people with cancer? Do we want to continue to allow expensive drug intensive therapy to eclipse all the other things we could do for cancer patients and their families? Wildly expensive new cancer drugs are eating a growing share of our healthcare dollars and provinces are clearly voting with their budgets, going slow and low on approvals and coverage of new therapies. Canada's drug manufacturers are condemning us for this approach, but they're wrong - regardless of how strenuously they try to paint Canadians as poor suffering underdogs with stingy and heartless healthcare systems. Alan Cassels is a pharmaceutical policy researcher in Victoria and an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca.

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Move Pain Out – The Faster and Natural Way

 

With Genuine Health Pain Relief Products

Toronto, July 16, 2015: One in 10 Canadians are reported to live with pain, highlighting an increasing need for a fast, effective, safe – and natural – solution. Genuine Health’s line of pain relief products, featuring *BiovaFlex®, offers a new, Canadian-formulated, superior solution.

According to Dr. Julie Chen, ND: “People shouldn’t have to trade pain for more serious side effects, and they shouldn’t have to trade effectiveness for natural. The time has come for a revolutionary approach to pain relief. An approach that offers people relief, while nourishing the body with the best that nature has to offer.”

The makers of greens+ have introduced a natural alternative to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) – typically used to reduce pain and swelling. Genuine Health’s key ingredient is research-proven BiovaFlex®, natural eggshell membrane. BiovaFlex® is a 100% water-soluble whole food source of many key bioactives that are shown to reduce inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein. This in turn reduces pain and inflammation, while providing the body with structural components that nourish and repair joints.

“Pain relief supplements from Genuine Health are unique in that they contain BiovaFlex® – the fastest and most effective natural pain relieving ingredient on the market. I advocate Genuine Health pain relief supplements as part of my anti-inflammatory diet plan.”

– Eva Selhub, M.D. Instructor, Harvard School of Medicine

fast joint care+: Relief from joint pain including general pain and discomfort or pain resulting from athletics. Fast and effective, just one capsule a day is shown to provide superior anti-inflammatory support (five times more effective than glucosamine!), and has been clinically proven to work in just five days.

fast arthritis pain relief+:Anti-inflammatory support for sufferers of arthritis or those requiring a more potent formula. Fast and effective, just two capsules per day provide all the benefits of fast joint care+, with the addition of two potent anti-inflammatories shown to provide superior support and nourishment to those suffering from osteoarthritis.

 “I’ve been using this product for nearly four years now. Within a week of trying it for the first time, I knew I couldn’t live without it. When anyone mentions joint pain, I send them to fast arthritis pain relief+.” – Dr. John Berardi, Precision Nutrition

fast pain relief+: Relief from acute and chronic pain, including headache, back pain, muscle aches and cramps from PMS. Fast and effective, just three capsules provide you with all the anti-inflammatory benefits found in fast joint care+, but with the added benefit of Devil’s Claw and White Willow Bark (nature’s Aspirin), shown to provide pain relief in as little as two hours without causing drowsiness.

 “I finally said ‘no more!’ to my 30 years of back pain and started taking fast pain relief+. I immediately started noticing less pain and more mobility so that I was able to kickstart a fitness program and stick to it. I have now been pain free for six months!” – Eva Selhub, MD, Instructor, Harvard School of Medicine

About Genuine Health: At Genuine Health we are inspired by our customers, our people, our products and our passion for health. Our vision is to change the way people are nourished. Over the past 20+ years, the company that started with one product, greens+, is now one of the largest natural product companies in Canada.

www.genuinehealth.com

“Of his own invention” - Burt’s Bees founder dies

“Of his own invention” - Burt’s Bees founder dies

Podcasts - Marion Kane Food Sleuth

Festival cheerleader and food sleuth Marion Kane just put up a podcast about the deep fried butter tart! 


Recorded at Midland Fish and Chips on festival day, Marion tastes this decadent treat for the first time and has a chat with restaurant owner Cathy Moreau, who invented the deep fried version of Canada's favourite pastry.


You can listen to Marion's full podcast here: 
http://www.marionkane.com/podcasts.htm

everyday living™: Blueberry Tart

everydayliving™: Blueberry Tart:

Crust

1 cup butter, room temprature
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 tbsp cornstarch

Blueberry Topping

4 cups blueberries
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3 tbsp cornstarch
1 tbsp lemon juice

Ontario's Best Butter Tart Festival and Contest 2015

AND THE AWARD GOES TO....

Congratulations to all of our 2015 contest participants! You all submitted *beautiful* tarts. I wish we could give an award to all of you!

The top 5 placements in each category were:

PRO
1st Doo Doo's Bakery - Pumpkin Butter Tarts
2nd Grandma's Beach Treats - Crumbly Apple Butter Tart
3rd Kenogami's Kitchen - Fruit and Nut Butter Tarts
H.M Kate's Town Talk Bakery - Nutella Stuffed Raspberry Butter Tarts
A Little Taste of Paradise - Skor Butter Tarts
HOME
1st Hisako Niimi - Peanut Butter Banana Bacon Butter Tarts
2nd Jessie Crow - Spiced Black Current Cranberry Butter Tarts
3rd Anne Mous - Real Cherry Almond Butter Tarts
HM. Hisako Niimi - Citrus Raisin Butter Tarts
Kelly McBride - Chambord Raspberry with White Chocolate Drizzle Butter Tarts

http://buttertartfestival.ca/