Food and Health:
Healthy Food, Healty Recipes, Food Safety, Drink Recipes, Food and Health.
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May 20th, 2009
Salad dressing aside, a pile of spinach has more nutritional value than a wedge of iceberg lettuce. That's because darker colors in leafy vegetables are often signs of antioxidants that are thought to have a variety of health benefits.
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May 19th, 2009
Drinking too much Cola is leading to increasing numbers of patients who suffer from muscle weakness, according to a recent warning from physicians. The rising number of patients admitted to the hospital is linked to too much Cola, causing low potassium levels (hypokalemia), which results in muscle weakness, and can even lead to paralysis, as well as heart rhythm disturbances that can be fatal.
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May 18th, 2009
The first four Toronto a la Cart food vendors will begin serving their unique cuisine on Victoria Day at three locations throughout the city. These vendors will help change our food culture by demonstrating that fast food can be healthy and unique.
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May 14th, 2009
Researchers recently compared cereal and milk to sports drinks after moderate exercise. The study, led by Lynne Kammer, from The University of Texas at Austin, shows that, whole grain cereal and non-fat milk are physiologically better than sports drinks for recovering from the effects of modest exercise.
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May 13th, 2009
Most health scientists agree that eating fish once or twice a week is good for our health as long as the fish are low in contaminants. The Minnesota Department of Health's updated fish consumption guidelines provide consumers and anglers with the information to help them make choices about the fish they eat.
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May 13th, 2009
In a move to provide millions of Massachusetts consumers with important health information, the Massachusetts Public Health Council approved rules requiring major chain restaurants to provide calorie information for the food that they sell.
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May 11th, 2009
Starting this month, there will be no more guessing the calorie counts or ingredients of foods sold in Westchester chain restaurants.
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May 5th, 2009
Cook Yourself Thin from Lifetime TV lets you have it all. The new series show teaches how to cook your favorite foods while trimming the calories and boosting flavor. The premise of the show is “clever cooking” Cook Yourself Thin takes good food and makes it great by making your personal favorites healthier.
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Apr 29th, 2009
Eating one and a half servings of tart cherries could significantly boost antioxidant activity in the body.
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Apr 27th, 2009
Santa Fe County has been receiving questions from concerned citizens regarding the safety and status of the new Courthouse site since discovering higher than expected levels of contamination.
