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Article: Hemp foods turn healthy profit
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- February 12, 2008
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By Larry Kusch
AS an 18-year-old, Mike Fata weighed 300 pounds and decided to go on a no-fat diet.
It almost killed him.
But while researching essential dietary fats, he got excited about the nutritional benefits of hemp.
Thirteen years later and more than 100 pounds lighter, Fata heads Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils, a company with projected sales this year of $6 million and customers as far flung as Europe and Australia.
This month, the company's Hemp Bliss -- an organic hemp beverage and milk substitute that won the best-new-product award at a major U.S. natural products trade show last fall -- will be sold in Sobeys ...