Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday june 23, 2004 Canada / world a7 Atkins diet devotees ? this Low carb spuds for you by Ron word spuds Fla. ? for dieters potatoes have been scorned rejected and Casti gated. The Rodney Dangerfield of vegetables they get no respect. Many weight loss programs including the Atkins and the South Beach diets advocate meat and cheese Over High carbohydrate potatoes pasta and bread. Come january carb counters who love potatoes May find cause to rejoice a bit. Florida growers will be pitching a Pota to they Hope will be a hot one ? it claims one third fewer carbs than the Ordinary Spud. Consumers Are going to love the flavour and appearance of this potato and the fact that it has 30 per cent fewer carbohydrates compared to a Standard russet baking potato said Chad Hutchinson an assistant professor of horticulture at University of Florida a Institute of food and agricultural sciences. After five years of testing in the Sandy soils near Here in the heart of Florida a potato country Hutchinson knew it tasted great had a Shorter growing Cycle was disease resistant and Able to handle Florida a extreme weather. He then Learned about its lower carb properties. That was just Gravy he said. Independent research shows about 100 Grams of the new potato contain about 13 Grams of carbohydrate compared with around 19 Grams in the same size serving of a russet Burbank. The new baseball size potato will be available in supermarkets and restau rants in january. Florida is the first test site in the United states for the european import which was developed by a pc a seed company based in the Netherlands. The potato was developed by crossbreeding and was not genetically modified. Five Florida potato growers have formed the Sun fresh marketing co operative to the grow and promote the new Spud said Jim Mcdowell the sales and marketing director for the co operative. It has to said what the new potato will Cost. We re pretty excited about it said Mcdowell noting that Farmers decided to grow it before learning they had a Low carb Benefit. I think Low carb is Here to stay Mcdowell said. But you do need some carbohydrates in your the growers also want to Market the potato As a fresh vegetable with a Brand name and a logo so shoppers will ask for it in their grocery store. A potato that is freshly dug tastes Dif Ferent than a potato dug eight or nine months ago and put in storage Hutchin son said. Colette Heimowitz of the Atkins health & medical information services said potatoes Are not recommended until a Dieter reaches a goal weight. Once they achieve their weight loss it is Fine she said noting the same carbohydrate reduction offered by the new potato could be accomplished by eating a third less of a regular potato. Don Northcott marketing manager for a pc americas corp. In Prince Edward Island is enthusiastic. The combination of Good Florida soils warm temperatures and the experience of Florida producers sets the stage for delivery of a fresh potato flavour treat Northcott said. ? associated press reprieve project Kare for woman avoiding seeks Justice deportation exits Church at last for women after Long Sanctuary ramp probe 78 cases involving by Keith Bonnell unsolved killings missing persons Halifax ? As she emerged from the basement of a Halifax Church yester been winnowed Down to the current 78,Day, Sanja Pecelj stepped into the Sun by Bob Weber about evenly split Between murders an Shine for the first time in 14 months. Missing persons. With her lawyer at her Side the ser e Edmonton ? the 40 or so card project Kare now has 23 full time Ian woman said she was relieved Board boxes stacked among the investigators. By the time it is full Ottawa had granted her a 60-Day cubicles in a downtown office staffed 32 officers and 11 support staff reprieve from an arrest warrant and building could contain quarterly will be blowing the dust off old files in deportation order. But she said she knows her fight to stay in Canada in to reports or accounts receivable. What a the search for Justice. Over. inside however is Hope ? and maybe Many of the cases Date from a time Justice. Long before modern investigative tech these past Many months have been the most challenging of my life the Waist High piles contain All that piques such As Dan analysis. Pecelj said before leaving the Sanctum is known of the life and death of one of you go to other avenues said Oakes. 78 women from across the Prairies and eyewitness identification statements Ary of St. Marks anglican Church. I Northwest territories who make up pro licence plates the Way in which a crime Hope that i will not be required to relive this experience 60 Days from Jet Kare a massive ramp i Vestiga was committed. Good old fashioned Tion into unsolved murders and missing police women. The team also includes behavioural immigration minister Judy Sgro responding to a election Campaign their numbers swelled by one earlier analysts commonly known As Profil pledge made earlier this month by this month when the body of 19-year-old ers who try to deduce the characters prime minister Paul Martin will Rachel Quinney was discovered East of tics of killers from their methods. Edmonton ? and investigators now sus project Kare fills an entire floor. Maps review the Case of the former United nations translator. Out of the country. While she said she was looking for pet one killer could be responsible for on the Wall Chart out prostitute strolls Pecelj 34, first came to Nova so earlier this month the Case was Ward to again experiencing the sights several deaths. Locations of Massage Parlours and Resi Tia in 2000 to work at the Pearson brought to Martins attention As he and sounds and tastes and smells of we do have reason to believe that one Dences of Johns. Statistics break them peacekeeping Centre a training Cen campaigned in Halifax. Normal life in the outside world person May be responsible for More than All Down geographically. Tre for peacekeepers in the Annapolis yesterday Pecelj a voice faltered As Pecelj said her fight in to Over. One of these homicides Cpl. Wayne investigators laboriously Type in the Valley. She spoke to reporters just across the her lawyer Lee Cohen said he Oakes said yesterday. Contents of file Box after file Box into a she later told immigration officials Hall from the Small bedroom that a wants the matter settled before the Oakes was not Able to be specific about special police database which helps that renewed violence in Kosovo made been her Home since she took Refuge in june 28 election. While it remains what link or links exist Between the them spot links Between cases. It unsafe for her to return Home. In the Church in april of last year. Unclear what would happen if a new cases. An analyst will sit Down input Crite particular she said she feared that her i did not choose to deprive myself government assumes Power Cohen project Kare grew out of an invest Ria and ask the computer for its Opin work with the United nations would of virtually everything Good that life said he hoped the process would not gation a few years ago in the lower Ion Oakes said. It will kick out make her a target. Has to offer for such an extended Peri be derailed. Mainland of British Columbia into the information the investigator can then however Pecelj was repeatedly of of time without having a compelling disappearance of a number of women. Take and apply into their current invest denied refugee status and was ordered reason Pecelj said. ? Canadian press that police initiative resulted in 15 Der charges against pig Farmer Robert any computer generated links help Picton. Police ask better questions As they con in the fall of 2002, ramp started duct fresh interviews and pursue new pulling together unsolved files on Mur leads. Drought stricken . Faces Long hot summer of fires dered and missing women from Alberta its a blending of Good old fashioned Saskatchewan Manitoba and the North human smarts with modern Lillooet . ? abnormally Early son has already begun. Early. Is about 20 per cent contained said West territories who had lived High risk project Kare in to cheap. It spent drought conditions and a heat wave ? while devastating fires burned the Nancy Argyle spokeswoman for the lifestyles. When officers started to $438,000 in its first six months. These Are the ominous ingredients that province through August last year Forest ministry. Analyse those files they decided it was it in to Likely to produce Quick results have . Residents braced for another already this year the entire population most of the Active burning is now Hap worthwhile to group them into a single either. After All it is composed excl Long hot summer of fire. Of this Small . Interior town ? about pening in the fires Centre ? not the investigation. Sively of files that stumped original fire officials Are pulling out All the 2,700 residents ? was on evacuation edges. There was an Issue of we have some investigators. The project has a mandate stops ? enforcing province wide open Alert. The Crews Are working very hard commonalities so what Are those com through 2006, with an option to fire bans and outlawing campfires in the the Blaze that licked Only three kilo Argyle said of the 200 firefighters Bat modalities said Oakes. Continue. Driest areas. Metres away slowed its rapid Advance thing the Blaze. The officers started with 315 cases but by All accounts the wildfire sea yesterday. The 15-Square-Kilometre fire Canadian press some dating Back to 1932. They have ? Canadian press ;