ONE WEEK LEFT TO HELP DFO’S GIANT MILK GLASS #FILLUPWITHLOVE

Dec 16, 2020

It’s the home stretch of Dairy Farmers of Ontario’s (DFO) 2020 Milk and Cookies campaign. There’s only one week left until the #FillUpWithLove initiative reaches its goal on Christmas Eve! Hurry and get your social media messages in by Dec. 24.

Join us in sending extra love to kids, their families and front-line medical workers who are spending the holidays away from home and in the hospital. Together, we can support them during what may be an especially difficult holiday season.

DFO has built a giant 18-foot milk glass in Toronto’s Winter Village at the Distillery District to be “filled up” with your virtual messages of support for Ontario children’s hospitals. Each time you share a message on social media using #FillUpWithLove and tagging us @ontariodairy, the milk glass will fill up and display your messages on its screen, and also to be shared with kids inside the hospitals. Learn more about the campaign here.

The goal is for our milk glass to be filled up with messages by Christmas Eve, when it will be transported to the SickKids rooftop in Toronto, Ont., right next to a giant cookie, to make sure Santa doesn’t miss that very important stop. Help fill up our milk glass in time for the special event by following the steps below.

Source : DFO

Video: Sweetener Effects on Gut Health - Dr. Kwangwook Kim

In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Kwangwook Kim, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, discusses the use of non-nutritive sweeteners in nursery pig diets. He explains how sucralose and neotame influence feed intake, gut health, metabolism, and the frequency of diarrhea compared to antibiotics. The conversation highlights mechanisms beyond palatability, including hormone signaling and nutrient transport. Listen now on all major platforms!

“Receptors responsible for sweet taste are present not only in the mouth but also along the intestinal tract.”

Meet the guest: Dr. Kwangwook Kim / kwangwook-kim is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, specializing in swine nutrition and feed additives under disease challenge models. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Animal Sciences from the University of California, Davis, where he focused on intestinal health and metabolic responses in pigs. His research evaluates alternatives to antibiotics, targeting gut health and performance in nursery pigs.