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How you handle food is important. Careful handling of food can help prevent sickness and can even be a matter of life or death. Most food poisoning is the result of inadequate sanitary precautions in the kitchen.
A clean, dry kitchen and a clean cook are the best precautions you can take, Tuck away your hair [...]
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Food Safety and Cooking to Conserve Nutritive Values
Foods Planning and Shopping
Concentrate on your shopping. For the time that you are in the store it is your profession. Bring along the list of foods you plan to buy for use during the week. Remember the purpose of the list and stick to it. Ignore those sudden impulses; remember the time you spent planning, and go by [...]
Weight Control and Meal Planning
Library shelves and bookstores are filled with books about weight control, because many people are concerned with overweight. This concern is justified. Obesity, the condition in which too much of the body is composed of fat, is a serious health problem.
If you are overweight and serious about losing extra pounds, the solution is simple _consume [...]
Nutrition Labeling
U.S. RDA stands for “United States Recommended Daily Allowances.” The U.S. RDAs were developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its nutrition labeling and dietary supplement programs, and were derived from the Recommended Daily Dietary Allowances of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences. The U.S. RDAs represent amounts [...]
Four Food Groups
Now that you understand a little of the what, why, and how of nutrients, how do you apply that information to daily eating patterns?
The “Basic Four” classification is now the basis of most nutrition education in the United States. In this classification, foods are divided into four categories according to their similarity in nutrient [...]
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Tags: Bread, Cereal, Food Groups, Fruit, Meat, Milk, Nutrients, Vegetable 
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The human body is one half to two thirds water _ten gallons in an adult male. Water is absolutely necessary for life. It is the solvent for everything that we digest. It holds nutrients in solution, carries them through the blood stream, and is an important part of every cell structure. It carries away waste [...]
The Individual Nutrients : Minerals
Certain minerals are necessary for the proper functioning of the human body. They give strength and rigidity to certain body tissues and help with a number of body functions. The tiny amounts of minerals required by the body have definite limits. Excesses can be toxic. Minerals work with each other in many different combinations. Each [...]
