Li'l Doc Food allergies
Li'l Doc and her assistant Geeko take a look at the role the immune system plays in the human body’s allergic relations.
- 2019
- 00:02:30
- 5-8
- Added on: 10/06/2020
Venture Food Fights
There is a nasty food fight going on in the grocery business. Brand-name products are being pushed off the shelves by grocery chains promoting their own private labels and food manufacturers are caught in the squeeze.
- 2000
- 00:08:17
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Nature of Things Food for Thought
We’re fed a lot of advice about our diets and what we shouldn't eat, but half the calories we consume come from ultra-processed starch, sugar, salt, hydrogenated oils, preservatives and additives. These processed foods are tasty and manufactured to make us crave them — but they’re killing us.
- 2019
- 00:44:09
- 13-14
- Added on: 08/14/2019
The Nature of Things Food or Famine
Is the human population going to outstrip the earth's food supply? Side effects of recent food surpluses include environmental problems such as soil erosion, salinization and chemical pollution. Food or Famine looks at projects in North America, Chile, Indonesia, Africa and India which are participating in a worldwide movement to return to agricultural methods based on sound ecological principles. But ...
- 1996
- 01:32:56
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - November 2003 Food Safety: From Store to Fork
The numbers are staggering and the threat almost always unseen. It’s estimated that two million Canadians a year will suffer from food poisoning and on average about 30 will die. In restaurants, grocery stores and at home there’s constant danger from microscopic organisms such as E. coli that can sneak through even the most secure food safety net. News in ...
- 2003
- 00:15:57
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/15/2003
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What a Waste Food Waste
Health officials estimate North Americans throw out about one-third of our groceries, while millions go hungry in other parts of the world. Scientists are working to turn that wasted food into plastic, animal feed, even fuel.
- 2014
- 00:27:28
- 13-14
- Added on: 08/08/2014
Marketplace Food waste: What some supermarkets throw out
David Common goes dumpster-diving to reveal how big companies throw good food into dumpsters, part of a $31 billion a year problem in Canada. Some European countries have taken action on supermarket food waste, but Canada doesn't even have a food waste policy. If other countries can do it, why can’t we?
- 2016
- 00:22:32
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/31/2017
News in Review - February 2019 Food's Carbon Footprint: Creating Sustainable Sources
The food we eat is under threat. There's less arable land and more people to feed than ever before. Add to that the fact that everything we produce leaves a carbon footprint. Greenhouse gases are created in the way we grow, harvest, ship, store, package, cook and dispose of the food we eat. So how do we make our food ...
- 2019
- 00:19:13
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/05/2019
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Marketplace Food-Borne Diseases
Food-poisoning cases in Canada have doubled over the past 16 years, and many critics point to the way animals are raised and slaughtered as a major reason for this increase. Marketplace speaks with a former government inspector who says safety is compromised because there's a lot of pressure to produce more meat at a faster pace. And a slaughterhouse worker ...
- 1998
- 00:21:54
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Firsthand Forever Young
Forever Young is a film that challenges our view of aging and reveals new technologies which could significantly extend human life. Death is the ultimate insult to the scientific mind. While science, technology and medicine have advanced in leaps and bounds during the past century, humans have still not cracked the most elemental challenge of them all: how to conquer death ...
- 2015
- 00:44:23
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/17/2015
