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Why the brand famed for making the warmest winter coat is suddenly betting big on springwear

Edit Business Insider 17 Sep 2016
Drake sporting a Canada Goose x OVO all-leather Chilliwack Bomber ... Canada Goose is a brand synonymous with winter ... Decades later and its luxury coats, made with real coyote fur and "Hutterite" goose down, have been worn by celebrities like David Beckham as he played soccer in Antarctica and actor Daniel Craig during the filming of "Spectre." Canada Goose is the parka of choice for film crews and scores of winter sports enthusiasts ... ....

Hutterites building a new egg sorting plant near Great Falls

Edit The Spokesman-Review 06 Sep 2016
– A cooperative of 30 Hutterite colonies is building a new $6.6 million egg grading facility on the northern edge of Great Falls....

A Photographer’s Tribute to the Canadian Religious Colony He Left Behind

Edit Slate 18 Aug 2016
At the Hutterite colony in rural Manitoba, Canada, where he grew up with around 100 other people, young men were expected to observe religious customs, contribute to the community’s collective farms, and learn the skills necessary to join its firetruck-manufacturing trade ... Hutterites don’t travel if it’s not to another colony or for work,” he said ... He also started an online support group for ex-Hutterite LGBT people....

Study Says FluMist Vaccine Does Indeed Work, Contradicting CDC

Edit National Public Radio 16 Aug 2016
i. FluMist is a live attenuated vaccine, which should make it more effective than the inactivated virus in flu shots. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption. toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images ... Joe Raedle/Getty Images ... But things aren't so simple ... Loeb's study focused on 52 Hutterite communities in rural Canada, because their relative isolation makes for an environment with fewer confounding factors ... And therein lies the rub ... children ... ....

Flu nasal spray provides similar protection against influenza as flu shot: Study

Edit Science Daily 15 Aug 2016
A three-year trial in a Hutterite colony, where people live communally and are relatively isolated from cities and towns, was set to determine whether vaccinating children and adolescents with the flu nasal spray provided better direct and community protection than the standard flu shot ... ....

New photo book sheds light on life as a young Hutterite

Edit CBC 06 Aug 2016
Kelly Hofer, a former Hutterite turned pro shutterbug, has documented life growing up in his rural Manitoba colony in a new hardcover book for which he's starting a Kickstarter fundraising campaign ... ....

Farm life and the asthma clue

Edit The Hindu 06 Aug 2016
the Amish of Indiana and the Hutterites of North Dakota, U.S. Asthma is rare among the Amish, affecting 2 to 4 per cent of the population, but common among the Hutterites, with 15-20 per cent affected. Yet the Amish and the Hutterites have similar genetic backgrounds. The Amish originated in Switzerland, the Hutterites in Austria ... The Hutterites have no objection to electricity and live on large, industrialised communal farms....

Asthma Study Reveals Amish Children Have A Much Lower Asthma Risk Than Similar Hutterite Group

Edit Inquisitr 05 Aug 2016
But, among another group similar to the Amish, the Hutterite, there is little difference ... According to a study released in the New England Journal of Medicine, Amish children were less likely of developing asthma than the Hutterite children ... Of the Hutterite group, 21.3 percent suffered from asthma ... The Hutterite group are very similar in this regard ... The Amish and Hutterite consume large quantities of unrefined foods and raw milk....

Photographer and activist Kelly Hofer offers insider's look at life in a Hutterite colony with ...

Edit Canada Dot Com 05 Aug 2016
It would be understandable if Kelly Hofer still harboured bad feelings about where he grew up.  After spending a number of lonely and confusing years coming to terms with his sexuality, he felt compelled to leave his small Hutterite community in Manitoba at the age of 19 in 2012. He moved to Calgary and came out as gay a […] ... ....

Asthma study: In dust some trust

Edit Arkansas Online 04 Aug 2016
The goal was to find an explanation for why asthma is so uncommon among Amish communities, where children run barefoot in dairy barns and farm fields, but much higher in a Hutterite colony, where industrialized farming is more common ... It involved 60 school-age children -- 30 each from an Amish community in Middlebury, Ind., and from the Hutterite colony near Mitchell, S.D ... No Amish children had asthma, and only six Hutterites did....

Amish's low asthma rates could be due to exposure to cow germs, study suggests

Edit Syracuse 04 Aug 2016
It involved 60 school-aged children — 30 each from an Amish community in Middlebury, Indiana, and from a Hutterite colony near Mitchell, South Dakota. Amish and Hutterites both originated in Europe, share old-style Protestant beliefs and lifestyles and have similar genetic ancestry. But Hutterites live on large highly industrialized communal farms, use modern agricultural machinery, and children are more isolated from livestock....
photo: AP / Scott R. Galvin
Amish boys tend to kittens in the barn in Bergholz, Ohio on Tuesday, April 9, 2013.

Amish House Dust Found To Protect Kids Against Asthma

Edit IFL Science 04 Aug 2016
They compared Amish individuals with those from the Hutterite community, another group of traditionalist Christians who emigrated to the US from Central Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries ... Just 5 percent of Amish schoolchildren have asthma, one-fourth the rate of asthma in Hutterite children, and around half the US average ... 30 Hutterite children....

Do Amish hold clue to preventing asthma in children?

Edit BBC News 04 Aug 2016
A new study from the US compared the Amish with a similar community, the Hutterites, who use more modern farming methods ... About 5% of Amish schoolchildren tested in the study had asthma compared with 21.3% of the Hutterite children ... "Neither the Amish nor the Hutterites have dirty homes," said study co-author Carole Ober, professor and chairman of human genetics at the University of Chicago....
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