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Canola oil.
Developed in Manitoba in the 1970s, this heart-smart oil is packed with unsaturated fats.
Motherisk.
Cancer fundraising.
British Columbia’s Terry Fox started something big. Since his run in 1981, more than $600 million has been raised for cancer research, and three million people run in his name every year.
Established by Canadian pharmacologists in 1985, the Motherisk helpline has become a leading educational program addressing the use of drugs during pregnancy and breast-feeding. It has reached millions.
Cold- FX.
CPR.
Salt tracker.
Sodium 101, a free iPhone app developed by the Canadian Stroke Network in 2011, can help you reduce your sodium intake to the recommended 1,500 milligrams per day. The average Canadian consumes 3,400 milligrams. Omega- enriched milk.
Thanks to a feed supplement developed by University of Guelph researchers, a select group of Ontario cows have been producing a DHA- enriched milk since 2004. Dairy Oh! contains DHA (an omega-3 fatty acid that’s abundant in breast milk), which boosts brain, nerve and eye development in children under three.
HIV treatment. Millions of lives have been saved because of Bernard Belleau, Francesco Bellini and Gervais Dionne of Quebec, who invented 3TC, a medication used to treat AIDS, in 1989.
In 1989, Canadians Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault and Jonathan Vinden invented the first affordable, easy to use CPR dummy, which opened the door for the masses to learn the essential lifesaving technique.
The popular ginseng-based immuneboosting capsules were developed in Edmonton in 1993.
Midwives.
In 1994, Ontario became the first province to regulate midwifery.
There are now 1,100 registered midwives in Canada; last year they attended to 16,000 births.
Breakfast.
Kickstart your day with Sexcereal, a proudly Canadian invention created in 2012, with hormone-balancing ginger and cacao nibs for the ladies, or testosterone-building pollen and black sesame for the lads. If regularity is an issue, start your day with a bowl of organic Holy Crap, a cereal first made in British Columbia in 2009 that is chock-full of omega-3 and omega- 6 fats, protein and fibre. The operating room of the future.
Stocked with the most advanced medical equipment, the sci-fi- esque GTx- OR at Toronto’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre will open near the end of 2013. Every year, 18,000 Canadians are faced with a cancer
diagnosis. Lung transplants. In 1983, Toronto General Hospital docs performed the world’s first successful long-term single-lung transplant. In 2008, the hospital’s parent, University Health Network, pioneered a technique to repair injured donor lungs, potentially quadrupling the number of possible transplants.