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Graphical illustration of the FMD trial : Priya Rangan et al. Cell Reports 2019 26, 2704-2719.e6DOI: (10.1016/j.celrep.2019.02.019)

March 6: Research findings by the University of Southern California (USC) suggests that a Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) in mouse model has significant impact  in reducing inflammotory bowel diseases. This study was based on previous human FMD trial and used the proprietay plant based diet by L-nutra.

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India Encourages Kingstonians to Invest in Trade


Photo Courtesy Vidya Rao

March-4    Speaking at the University Club, Queen's University, Deputy High commissioner Arun Sahu emphasized the sustainable growth of around 7%  in India achieved by the country for the past 15 years and projected the country to become a five trillion economy by 2025.

Currently the trade between India and Canada is just around Five billion as opposed to 20 billion with China. Mentioning that 50% of the Indian population is under 25 and being  a democratic country with fast pace development in infrastructures, education and tourism-he called for Canadian partnership in all spheres of Indian economy. Dr. Jill Scott Vice-Principal, Queens University said that India is an important country to Canada and currently 172,000 student are enrolled in Canadian Universities — a huge jump from few years ago. Some delegates from Kingston who shared their experiences investing in India were Mr. Chander Datta, CEO, Cancoil Thermal Corporation, Dr, Praveen Jain, Professor at Queen's and CEO, Sparq Systems and Mr. Matt Pomeroy, Financial Centre Manager, Sun Life Financial.  Dr. Chad Joshi, CEO, Advonex International who attended from Brockville spoke on  tranforming non-food seed oils into recession-proof products. He expressed his wish to partnership with India with a focus on crops like jatropha which is largely used to produce bio-diesel; a wasteful process compared to his approach of using the plant.

The event was organized by India-Canada Associaition of Kingston in association with Kingston Economic Development Corporation and Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce.

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