Encyclopedia of Diets - A Guide to Health and Nutrition

Fresh (poultry): A complicated regulation that in gen- eral says that the raw meat has never been held at a temperature below 2 ...

that case, the daily value must be 20% or greater. No recommendations have been made about how much sugar should be consumed in ...

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Contamination that causes food poisoning can occur at every level of the food production process Some examples follow. Growers: ...

and failure of food handlers to wash their hands. Restaurants are inspected by local health authorities. Home preparation: lett ...

may become paralyzed. Similar symptoms result from eating the Japanese puffer fish which contains a natu- ral poison that in its ...

alfalfa and bean sprouts wild mushrooms. Note: many mushrooms that are poisonous in North America look almost identical to saf ...

United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Cen- ter for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Nutritional Products ...

chicken or other foods contaminated with juices that drip from raw chicken. Salmonella, a bacterium that can spread from food o ...

promote growth of microbial populations. Even fresh fruits and vegetables with skins and rinds that won’t be eaten should be cle ...

fish 140F (60C) egg dishes, casseroles 160F (71C) When cooking food in the microwave, it is impor- tant to avoid cold spot ...

Origins Food sensitivity is often misdiagnosed due to the lack of well-controlled clinical trials proving its exis- tence. Howev ...

Other features of food sensitivity can include skin rash, itchy skin, excessive coughing , sneezing, wheez- ing as well as migra ...

offendingfood, or food ingredient, is recommended every 3-6 months to test whether the sensitivity still persists. Many people w ...

‘‘Briefing Paper: Food Allergy and Intolerance.’’British Nutrition FoundationSeptember 2000. Johansson et al. ‘‘Revised nomencla ...

regular, moderate wine consumption. Those who drank wine daily had half the risk of dying compared with non- drinkers or consume ...

Fiber The French eat two to three times more soluble fiberfrom pulses, such as beans and chickpeas, fruit and vegetables, whole ...

to non-drinkers. It is thought that the amount of Resveratrol in 2-3 glasses of red wine helps to starve cancer cells by blockin ...

diet and health. They argue that it is related to Fran- ce’s history of lower animal fat intakes rather then their consumption o ...

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