Epsom Salt:

Epsom - Bath Salts

Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulfate Heptahydrate) is called for in many recipes for making Epsom Bath Salts, Salt Scrubs, Aromatherapy Treatments, Detox Baths and Soap Making. TheraSoak high mineral epsom salts will increase the quality of any bath salt or spa treatment recipe.

13 Wonderful Ways to Use Epsom Salts

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By Annie B. Bond, author of Better Basics for the Home (Three Rivers Press, 1999). Oh, epsom saltwho knew that such an uninspiring ingredient could inspire such devotion? Read on for 13 ways to use epsom salts, including a relaxing bath, a face scrub and a hair volumizer. It's also a miracle cure, helping to get rid of splinters and reduce swelling of sprains and bruises. One ingredient fits all!
SIMPLE SOLUTION: I always knew that soaking in a tub full of hot water with a few cups of Epsom Salts

was good for relaxing muscles and drawing toxins from the body, but I could never figure out why. And it wasn't until I spent some time at the Epsom Salt Industry Council web site that I learned that epsom salts made of the mineral magnesium sulfateare also a sedative for the nervous system. When magnesium sulfate is absorbed through the skin, such as in a bath, it draws toxins from the body, sedates the nervous system, reduces swelling, relaxes muscles, is a natural emollient, exfoliator, and much more. Adapted from the Epsom Salt Industry Council http://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/ Note: Check with a doctor before using if you have any health concerns. Relaxing and sedative bath: Soak in warm water and 2 cups of epsom salt. Face cleaner: To clean your face at night, mix a half-teaspoon of epsom salt with your regular cleansing cream. Just massage into skin and rinse with cold water.

Homemade skin mask: Apply the mask to damp skin. For normal to oily skin, mix 1 tablespoon of cognac, 1 egg, 1/4 cup of non-fat dry milk, the juice of 1 lemon, and a half-teaspoon of epsom salt. For normal to dry skin, mix 1/4 cup of grated carrot, 1 1/2 teaspoons of mayonnaise and a half-teaspoon of epsom salt. Foot soak: Soothe aches, remove odors and soften rough skin with a foot soak. Add 1/2 cup of epsom salt to a large pan of warm water. Soak feet for as long as it feels right. Rinse and dry. Skin exfoliator: Massage handfuls of epsom salt over your wet skin, starting with your feet and continuing up towards the face. Have a bath to rinse. Remove excess oil from hair: Epsom salt soaks up excess oil from hair. Add 9 tablespoons of epsom salt to 1/2 cup of oily hair shampoo. Apply one tablespoon of the liquid to your hair when it is dry; rinse with cold water. Pour lemon juice or organic apple cider vinegar through the hair, leave on for 5-10 minutes, and then rinse. Remove hairspray: Combine 1 gallon of water, 1 cup of lemon juice, and 1 cup epsom salt. Combine, cover and let set for 24 hours. The next day, pour the mixture into your dry hair and let it sit for 20 minutes. Then shampoo as normal. Hair volumizer: Combine equal parts of deep conditioner and epsom salt. Warm in a pan. Work the warm mixture through your hair and leave on for 20 minutes. Rinse. Soak sprains and bruises: Epsom salt will reduce the swelling of sprains and bruises. Add 2 cups epsom salt to a warm bath, and soak. Splinter remover: Soak in epsom salt, it will draw out the splinter.

Homemade Detox Baths

By Annie B. Bond, Care2 Green Living Executive Producer Baths are wonderfully healing, and it is easy to make your own homemade, detox baths. Hot water draws toxins out of the body to the skin's surface, and while the water cools it pulls toxins from the skin, according to Naturopath Dr. Hazel Parcells. Epsom salts augment this detoxification by causing you

to sweat. Other saltsall highly alkaline and cleansingused in baths include sea salt, baking soda, clay, and Dead Sea salts.
SIMPLE SOLUTION:

Basic Salt Soak Bath Formula Minerals and salts make the bath water feel silky and leave your skin cleansed and soft. 1 cup sea salts 2 cups baking soda 1 cup Epsom salts 1 to 2 tablespoons glycerin per bath Add Essential Oils for a fragrant, relaxing experience Combine the sea salts, baking soda, and Epsom salts in a bowl. Stir to blend. Pour 1/4 cup or so into the bath while the tub is filling. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons glycerin to keep your skin from drying out (more for dry skin, less for oily skin) and essential oils of choice. Preparation time: 2 to 3 minutes Shelf life: Indefinite Storage: Glass jar with a screw top Caution: Do not take hot baths and salt baths (including Epsom salt baths) if you have heart trouble, high blood pressure, or are diabetic.

Salt of the Earth Body Scrub

Adapted from Organic Body Care Recipes, by Stephanie Tourles (Storey Publishing, 2007). How wonderful to connect with the Earth all over your skin with this sea salt scrub that is also an itch scratcher par none. Using just the pure gifts of nature, this ultra-invigorating blend is perfect to use in the morning as a wake-me-up as it enlivens all the senses!

SIMPLE SOLUTION: Recommended for all skin types except for those with acne (use with care on sensitive

and environmentally damaged skin). INGREDIENTS 2 cups sea salt (preferably finely ground, but regular granular will do) cup extra-virgin olive base oil or base oil of choice 40-60 drops peppermint, spearmint, grapefruit, geranium, or rosemary (chemotype verbenon) essential oil In a medium-sized bowl, combine the sea salt and the base oil. Using a whisk, stir to blend. Add the essential oil drop by drop, blending after each addition. Spoon into a storage container with a tight-fitting lid. No refrigeration is required, but for maximum freshness and fragrance, please use within six months.
HELPFUL HINTS: Massage approximately to cup of scrub onto premoistened skin using circular

motions. Rinse. Use: 1-2 times per week Follow with moisturizer if necessary Prep time: Approximately 10 minutes Blending tools: Medium-sized bowl and whisk Store in wide-mouthed plastic or glass jar Yield: Approximately 2 cups

Healing Salt Crystals

Adapted from "The Herbal Home Spa" by Greta Breedlove (Story Books, 1998). The easy-to-find ingredients for this wonderful bathing mixture help to relieve soreness and aching joints and muscles. Soothing and relaxing, Healing Salt Crystals draw out impurities from your body and deoderize, too! With many of the healing properties of a seaside spa, this formula is perfect for the day after a strenuous workout, or for any time you need a little healing time-out. If you can't get away to the beach, you can at least relax in a tub with these lovely crystals.
SIMPLE SOLUTION: INGREDIENTS

1 cup borax 2 cups Epsom salts cup coarse sea salt cup baking soda cup white clay cup dried lavender 10 drops lavender essential oil 1. In a large bowl, mix together the borax, salts, baking soda, and clay, then mix in the dried lavender, stirring with a wire whisk.

2. Scent the mixture with the oil, mixing well with the whisk. Cover the bowl with a towel and leave overnight to fix the scent. 3. In the morning, thoroughly mix again and package in jars, zip-seal or muslin bags, or envelopes. To Use: Add to cup healing salt crystals to a tubful of warm water. The Science of Epsom Salts:
Magnesium is the second-most abundant element in human cells and the fourth-most important positively charged ion in the body, so it's little wonder this low-profile mineral is so vital to good health and well being. Magnesium, a major component of Epsom Salt, also helps to regulate the activity of more than 325 enzymes and performs a vital role in orchestrating many bodily functions, from muscle control and electrical impulses to energy production and the elimination of harmful toxins. The National Academy of Sciences, however, reports that most Americans are magnesium deficient, helping to account for our society's high rate of heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, arthritis and joint pain, digestive maladies and stress-related illnesses, chronic fatigue and a host of other ailments. The Academy estimates the average American male gets just 80% of the magnesium required for good health, while females get only 70% of their recommended levels. Nutritionists say Americans' magnesium levels have dropped more than 50% in the past century.

Making Bath Salts

Making your own therapeutic bath salt is really very simple. SaltWorks offers a wide range of high quality sea salts and free bath salt recipes. Bath salts are a wonderful way to implement aromatherapy benefits. Create your own unique bath salt recipe with essential oils, dried herbs and colorants. Making these salts for yourself or for your business takes little time and is very rewarding! There are also recipes for making great spa products such as Salt Glows, Bath Bombs, Crystal Potpourri and Bath Teas! CAUTION: Essential Oils you should avoid in the bath include but are not limited to basil, oregano, thyme, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, black pepper, and bay (Pimenta and Laurus). Also avoid any oils that can cause sensitivity to your skin. Consult your physician if you have high blood pressure, are pregnant or have other medical concerns.

Blending Bath Salts: Bath Salts: Sea salts and essential oils are a wonderfully synergistic combination. The relaxing properties of hot water compliment the effects of well chosen salts and essential oils. Aromatic baths can provide relief from stress and anxiety, assist with muscle and joint pains, and treat the symptoms of more severe skin conditions. Both men and women are enjoying aromatic baths in increasing numbers. The therapeutic benefits of sea salt baths are well known and often recommended by doctors for treating a wide range of medical conditions. Aroma Therapy: Aromatherapy is the practice of controlled use of essential oils to maintain and promote physical, psychological, and spiritual well being. As a holistic medicine, Aromatherapy is both a preventative approach as well as an active treatment during acute and chronic stages of illness. Essential Oils: Essential oils are highly concentrated plant extracts distilled from a variety of plant material including leaves, flowers, needles, fruit peels, grasses, wood and roots. These oils, with the exception of Lavender and Tea Tree, should always be diluted in carrier oil before applying directly to the skin. Dried Herbs: Many dried herbs possess the same scent and healing properties of their essential oil counterparts. Herbs are popular additions to bath salts and bath teas and look great in a finished product, one draw back is that it can be messy in the tub. A good option is to include an organza bag with your salts to use as a tea bag - the salts melt, the herbs seep in the hot bath water and once the bag dries it is easy to empty out the herbs and re-use the bag.

Carrier Oils: moisturizing vegetable oils are commonly used as a "carrier" for essential oils. Most essential oils are too strong to apply directly to the skin and should be diluted 12-30 drops to 1oz of carrier oil. Carrier oils are also combined with sea salts to create defoliant salt scrubs. Hydrogen Peroxide: Adding hydrogen peroxide to bathwater increases oxygen available to the body. Hydrogen peroxide baths leave the body feeling alert and revitalized, like just after a rain shower. This gentle bath is antibacterial, antiviral, and cleansing to the emotional and energetic bodies. Add six ounces of food-grade hydrogen peroxide to a hot bath and soak for 20-30 minutes. Be careful in handling this concentrated solution of hydrogen peroxide as it can "burn" or irritate the skin. Diluted in the bathwater, it is fine for skin contact. Apple Cider Vinegar: Apple cider vinegar baths restore a natural pH to the skin and hair, as well as rejuvenating and building up the bodys resistance. It helps restore acid mantle protection to the skin, which is lost from swimming and from routine use of soaps on the skin. It thus helps combat unfriendly bacteria, fungal overgrowth, and as helpful with vaginal and bladder infections. Apple cider vinegar baths are soothing to the skin, alleviating itchiness, poison ivy, and sunburn discomfort. As with all hot baths, it causes the pores to open and aids in general systemic detoxification. Make certain to use pure, unprocessed apply cider vinegar. Use 2-4 cups in a hot bath. Sodium Bicarbonate: A hot bath with equal parts of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and sea salt assists in detoxification from exposure to heavy metals and radiation. It is also beneficial for cleansing the theauric field, and for soothing itchy skin. In combination, use 1-2 pounds of each. Sea salts is recommended, as opposed to rock salt or common table salt, which are depleted of nourishing minerals. Citric Acid: Citric Acid is a key ingredient, along with Sodium Bicarbonate, for bath fizzies (recipe below). It is also great for making fizzy bath salts. The combination creates an effervescent blend that helps release the aroma of your essential oils into the air, creating an uplifting aromatic bath. Colorants: FD&C dyes dispersed in liquid or glycerin are popular for adding color to bath salts. Herbs can also be used to create beautiful natural colors for your salts. Powdered Mica can create beautiful pearl essence salt. SALT GLOW 1/2 C Bokek Dead Sea Salt - Fine 1/2 C EuroSpa Sea Salt - Fine 4oz Grapeseed Oil (1/2 cup) 2oz Avocado Oil (1/4 cup) 1 T d-alpha Tocopheral Vitamin E 20-30 drops Essentil Oil Blend Mix Salts together, set aside. Mix all oils together. Pour oils mixture into storage jar. Jar should be glass or PET and have an airtight seal. Slowly add salt and mix well. Salt Glow should be stored in cool dark place to maximize shelf life. Adding a drop or two of Rosemary Essential Oil will help to preserve your scrubs. BATH TEAS 1/2 C Breton Coarse or Breton Brut Sweet Orange Essential Oil Dried Lavender Buds Dried Chamomile Flowers Large 3x5 inch tea bags (can substitute tea bags with Organza Bags or Muslin Bags) Add essential oil to salt and mix well. Add dried herbs and stir to combine. Fill each tea bag with approx 4oz of mixture, Package individually in plastic to seal in the scent. To Use: Simply toss one bag into warm bath water. As the tea bag seeps the salts will melt and the fragrance from the essential oils and herbs will disperse. When done, throw the tea bag away!

SALT POTPOURRI RIO Sea Salt Crystals - Jumbo Colorant Essential Oils or Fragrance Oils Making Salt Crystal Potpourri is a simple process. The trickiest part is the coloring of the crystals. You have 3 choices for colorings: Liquid Based, Glycerin Based or Mica Powders. The liquid based colorings will dry the best, glycerin will be a nice translucent coloring and Mica gives you opalescent options. You can also simply rinse the crystals for a "glass like" look (see Rio Salt Page).

ESSENTIAL OIL BLENDS 3/4 oz Grapefruit & 1/4 oz Eucalyptus 1/2 oz Lavender & 1/2 oz Bergamot 1/4 oz Lemon grass / 3/4 oz Lime 1/4 oz Rosemary & 3/4 oz Spearmint 3/4 oz Sweet Orange & 1/4 oz Chamomile 1/4 oz Eucalyptus, 3/4 oz Lavender & 6 dps Tea Tree 1/2 oz Geranium & 1/2 oz Grapefruit

Cleansing Soothing & Relaxing Uplifting Energizing Calm & Happy Cold Relief Muscle Relief

Add Fragrance and Color. Crystals out on Parchment to dry. If youre using liquid or glycerin colorants, an easy way to color the crystals is by wearing rubber gloves and rubbing the color on the crystals. Micas you will have to sprinkle than mist with your fragrance.

Tired *Always use caution when working with EO's, See basic guidelines under "Blends".

BATH FIZZIES 1C Ceara Sea Salt - Extra Small 1 1/4 C Citric Acid 2 1/2 C Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda) Witch Hazel Essential Oil Blend Dried Herbs (optional) Mix all dry ingredients. Prepare molds by sprinkling dried herbs on the bottom. Moisten mixture with witch hazel and essential oils using a spray bottle. As soon as mixture holds its shape, pack into the molds. Use caution DO NOT over mist! Allow to dry overnight, then remove from molds. Package in airtight plastic bags. Try varying the formulas above to create your own signature products! Scenting Sea Salts: All of the sea salts that SaltWorks offers are very easy to scent. The amount of Essential Oils or Fragrance Oils you will need to use will depend on the quality of oil and the variety of oil used. For example, you would need more grapefruit in your salts than peppermint as the mint family is much stronger than the citrus. The oils will travel easily through the salts. Always store your scented salts in airtight glass or PET (type of plastic) containers. Coloring Sea Salts: Be sure to use FD&C approved, or herbal, colorants for bath salts. It is recommended scenting the salts first and then coloring. Once you mix in the color, let sit in a sealed container overnight. The color will disperse for a more even coverage. Sea Salt Cell: Some therapies call for a Sea Salt Cell or Dead Sea Salt Cell. This is simply a single bath portion of Sea Salts mixed with Therapeutic grade Essential Oils. A deep therapy cell will call for 2 lbs of salt mixed with approx. 40 drops of your chosen EO Blend.

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Salt and Good Health

Salt is essential not only to life, but to good health. Human blood contains 0.9% salt (sodium chloride) -- the same concentration as found in United States Pharmacopeia (USP) sodium chloride irrigant commonly used to cleanse wounds. Salt maintains the electrolyte balance inside and outside of cells. Most of our salt comes from foods, some from water. Doctors often recommend replacing water and salt lost in exercise and when working outside. Wilderness hikers know the importance of salt tablets to combat hyperthermia. Oral rehydration involves replacing both water and salt. Expectant mothers are advised to get enough salt. Increased salt intakes have been used successfully to combat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Dramatic deficiencies (e.g. "salt starvation" in India) or "excessive" sodium intakes have been associated with other conditions and diseases, such as hypertension and stomach cancer. Testing the salinity of perspiration is a good test for cystic fibrosis; scientists suspect that cystic fibrosis is caused by a deformed protein that prevents chloride outside cells from attracting needed moisture. The National Academy of Sciences recommends that Americans consume a minimum of 500 mg/day of sodium to maintain good health. Individual needs, however, vary enormously based on their genetic make-up and the way they live

their lives. While individual requirements range widely, most Americans have no trouble reaching their minimum requirements. Most consume "excess" sodium above and beyond that required for proper bodily function. The kidneys efficiently process this "excess" sodium in healthy people. Experimental studies show that most humans tolerate a wide range of sodium intakes, from about 250 mg/day to over 30,000 mg/day. The actual range is much narrower. Americans consume about 3,500 mg/day of sodium; men more, women less. The very large percentage of the population consumes 1,150- 5,750 mg/day which is termed the "hygienic safety range" of sodium intake by renowned Swedish hypertension expert Dr. Bjrn Folkow. Chloride is also essential to good health. Every substance, including water, can be toxic in certain concentrations and amounts; this is not a significant concern for dietary salt.

Salt and Cardiovascular Health For 4,000 years, we have known that salt intakes can affect blood pressure through signals to the muscles of blood vessels trying to maintain blood pressure within a proper range. We know that a minority of the population can lower blood pressure by restricting dietary salt. And we know that elevated blood pressure, hypertension, is a welldocumented marker or risk factor for cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes, a silent killer. Cardiovascular events are a major cause of premature death and cost Americans more than $300 billion every year in increased medical costs and lost productivity. Reducing blood pressure can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke depending on how its done. Some have suggested that since salt intakes are related to blood pressure, and since cardiovascular risks are also related to blood pressure, that, surely, salt intake levels are related to cardiovascular risk. This is the salt hypothesis or sodium hypothesis. Data are needed to confirm or reject hypotheses. Blood pressure is a sign. When it goes up (or down) it indicates an underlying health concern. Changes result from many variables, often still poorly-understood. High blood pressure is treated with pharmaceuticals and with lifestyle interventions such as diet and exercise. The anti-hypertensive drugs are all approved by regulatory authorities such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. To be approved, these drugs must prove they work to lower blood pressure. Whether they also work to lower the incidence of heart attacks and strokes has not been the test to gain approval (it would take too long to develop new drugs), but the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has invested heavily in such health outcomes studies.

Health Outcomes The ALLHAT study was funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to compare the health outcomes of four classes of anti-hypertensive drugs, all of which had demonstrated their ability to reduce blood pressure in relative safety. The idea is that blood pressure is only a "surrogate outcome," and we should be more concerned with clinically meaningful endpoints. Dr. Jeffrey R. Cutler of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has supervised the study and explains its importance: "Trials are based on the notion that different antihypertensive regimes, despite similar efficacy in lowering blood pressure, have other beneficial or harmful effects that modify their net effect on cardiovascular or all-cause morbidity and mortality." Lifestyle interventions are "antihypertensive regimes" too. For years, the same situation prompting the ALLHAT trial applied to lifestyle interventions designed to improve blood pressure -- they were untested regarding health outcomes. Certain dietary and lifestyle interventions reduced blood pressure, at least in sensitive sub-populations. Whether they also reduced the incidence of heart attacks and strokes had never been tested. Thus, until the 1990s, scientists had never tested the salt hypothesis by documenting whether reducing dietary salt actually reduces a persons chances of having a heart attack or a stroke. As in the drug health outcomes trials, this is now changing. The results have vast public health policy implications. We should not be recommending that everyone change their diets without evidence of some overall health benefit. Even documenting an association of, for example, low-sodium diets with reduced incidence of heart attacks would only be the first step. Association is not the same as causation. Nevertheless, unless an association is established, we have no reason to think that a causal link is possible. Of the first nine health outcomes studies of sodium reduction, not a single study has found an association in the general population between low-sodium diets and reduced incidence of cardiovascular events like stroke or heart attack. Heres what scientists have found: 1. An eight-year study of a New York City hypertensive population stratified for sodium intake levels found those on lowsalt diets had more than four times as many heart attacks as those on normal-sodium diets the exact opposite of what the salt hypothesis would have predicted. (1995) 2. An analysis by NHLBIs Dr. Cutler of the first six years data from the MRFIT database documented no health outcomes benefits of lower-sodium diets. (1997) 3. A ten-year follow-up study to the huge Scottish Heart Health Study found no improved health outcomes for those on low-salt diets. (1997)

4. An analysis of the health outcomes over twenty years from those in the massive US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) documented a 20% greater incidence of heart attacks among those on low-salt diets compared to normal-salt diets (1998) 5. A health outcomes study in Finland, reported to the American Heart Association that no health benefits could be identified and concluded our results do not support the recommendations for entire populations to reduce dietary sodium intake to prevent coronary heart disease. (1998) 6. A further analysis of the MRFIT database, this time using fourteen years data, confirmed no improved health benefit from low-sodium diets. Its author conceded that there is "no relationship observed between dietary sodium and mortality." (1999) 7. A study of Americans found that less sodium-dense diets did reduce the cardiovascular mortality of one population subset, overweight men the article reporting the findings did not explain why this obese group actually consumed less sodium than normal-weight individuals in the study. (1999) 8. A Finnish study reported an increase in cardiovascular events for obese men (but not women or normal-weight individuals of either gender) the article, however, failed to adjust for potassium intake levels which many researchers consider a key associated variable. (2001) 9. In September, 2002, the latest and highest-quality meta-analysis of clinical trials was published in the British Medical Journal confirming earlier meta-analyses' conclusions that significant salt reduction would lead to very small blood pressure changes in sensitive populations and no health benefits. (2002)

Controversy Continues For many years, the intense public controversy that has characterized the public policy debate over public health nutrition recommendations on salt intake has focused on the wrong question. Medical experts, public health policy-makers and the public, trying to sort out the issues reading the consumer press have all focused on the relationship of sodium intake to blood pressure instead of the relevant question of whether changing intake levels of dietary sodium results in improved health outcomes. See, for example, recent Salt Institute comments to the (British) Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition. There is no evidence that reducing dietary sodium improves the risk for heart attacks or strokes for the general population. In 1999, the Canadian Hypertension Society, the Canadian Coalition for High Blood Pressure Prevention and Control, the Health Canada Laboratory Centre for Disease Control and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada issued a joint statement opposing general recommendations for sodium reduction. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has also reviewed the evidence and concluded: "There is insufficient evidence that, for the general population, reducing dietary sodium intake or increasing dietary intake of iron, beta-carotene, or other antioxidants results in improved health outcomes." The debate has confused the public. Medical journalists from ABC-TVs 20/20 to Americas pre-eminent scientific journal, Science, published by the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science, have investigated the source of this confusion. The report in Science won author Gary Taubes a top prize from the National Association of Science Writers and has also been translated into French. Taubes concluded: After interviews with some 80 researchers, clinicians, and administrators around the world, it is safe to say that if ever there were a controversy over the interpretation of scientific data, this is it.After decades of intensive research, the apparent benefits of avoiding salt have only diminished. This suggests either that the true benefit has now been revealed and is indeed small or that it is non-existent and researchers believing they have detected such benefits have been deluded by the confounding of other variables. The Salt Institute is confident that the higher standards of evidence-based medicine will reduce the ongoing controversy, better inform public policy and reduce consumer confusion. For more information about the importance of evidence-based health, you may wish to visit the Cochrane Collaboration, Oxford University (UK) Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, the Health Information Research Unit (McMaster University) or the Canadian Centres for Health Evidence. Using the latest science, we can create better public health nutrition policy.