Smoke Free Grade 2000 aims to keep Manitoba students smoke free
Manitoba launches Smoke Free Grade 2000 a decade long program to keep 15,000 Grade 2 students smoke free until graduation in 2000. The initiative involves classroom activities bilingual materials and a media campaign with pledges sealed in time capsules. Government partners include Health Education and Tourism along with Manitoba Health Education and Training and local groups.
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Manitoba
Legislative Building
Culture, Heritage and Recreation
Bonnie Mitchelson
Don Orchard
Len Derkach
Derkach
Orchard
Manitoba Health
Manitoba Education and Training
The
Home and School Parent-Teacher Federation of Manitoba
le Conseil Jeunesse Provincial
Manitoba Lung Association
Target
Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association
Great West Life Assurance Co
North American Life Assurance Co
Seventeen Snacks May Cut Heart Risk, U of T Study Finds
University of Toronto researchers led by Professor David Jenkins report that 17 small snacks daily, totaling 2500 calories, reduced total blood cholesterol by 8.5 percent and lowered dangerous LDL and apolipoprotein B by over 12 percent in seven men compared with three meals. Insulin levels also fell slightly, suggesting insulin and sugar control link to cholesterol.
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John Eberlee
Canadian
Science News
University of Toronto
David Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins
U of T
Calgary couple's funeral notice and mixed rural notes
Oakburn resident Mathilda Polos visits Calgary to spend a week with her parents Mike and Ann Polos. Ann Polos attends the funeral of her sister Mary Melosky who died at home on February 4 at age 86. Various readers from Winnipeg and Brandon share holiday and weekend visits, while a science piece discusses snack breaks and cholesterol research with calls for broader participant inclusion and grant funding.
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Mathilda Polos
Calgary
Mike
Ann Polos
Mary Melosky
Sylvia
Karen Yarish
Winnipeg
Hawaii
Nicky Morris
John Kreshewski
Brandon
Nick Morris
Mervin Bilinsky
Pete Bilinsky
Darcy Yaskiw
Eleanor Mackedenski
Diane
Mike Olyarnyk
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K.J. Drozda Ltd
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