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Animal feed and the food supply, Chicken: Arsenic and antibiotics

Animal feed and the food supply, Chicken: Arsenic and antibiotics Chicken: Arsenic and antibiotics     The issuE: Medications • What they are Antibiotics and a drug that contains arsenic. • How they...

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Animal feed and the food supply, Beef: Delays in mad cow protection

Animal feed and the food supply, Beef: Delays in mad cow protection Beef: Delays in mad cow protection   The issue: Prions • What they are Proteins that can become malformed and infect cud-chewing...

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What you can do to limit sodium intake

What you can do to limit sodium intake The government faces some pressure to limit the use of salt: The American Medical Association has urged the Food and Drug Administration to help slash Americans'...

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Products with surprising sodium content

Products with surprising sodium content Dietary guidelines recommend that healthy adults get no more than 2,300 mg of sodium a day, the amount in just 1 teaspoon of table salt (sodium chloride)....

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Understand sodium labels, learn salt terminology

Understand sodium labels, learn salt terminology   Use this glossary to decode sodium-related claims, which are regulated by the federal government. Sodium free (or zero sodium, no sodium, without...

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Salt alternatives, salt substitutes

Salt alternatives, salt substitutes   Salt substitutes lack table salt (sodium chloride); salt blends are a hybrid of table salt and other ingredients. Finding a tasty substitute or blend can prove...

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Think youre cutting back on salt? Think again.

Think youre cutting back on salt? Think again. (Click on image for answer) Cottage cheese vs. Potato chips Correct!Saltier: ½ cup Friendship 1% low-fat cottage cheese, 360 mg Wrong!1 oz. Lay's potato...

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Incorporate low sodium into your diet

Incorporate low sodium into your diet Videos Photos VIDEO:     Videos Photos Detective work In a lab at our Yonkers, N.Y., headquarters, project leader Babatunde Akinleye used an atomic absorption...

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Sodium quiz, which lower-sodium foods taste best

Sodium quiz, which lower-sodium foods taste best In the cafeteria of our Yonkers, N.Y., headquarters, about 100 staff members taste-tested less-salty versions of four usually high-sodium foods....

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When to buy organic

When to buy organic Fruits and vegetables When to buy organic  In 2006, Americans spent $16.7 billion on organic foods, often fruits and vegetables. Because “organic” can mean “pricey,” it makes sense...

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Health benefits of probiotics

Health benefits of probiotics Health benefits of probioticsSome of the strongest evidence for probiotics comes from research involving people with digestive disorders and allergies. There has been...

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Diet tactics to avoid

Diet tactics to avoid Diet tactics to avoid Despite the hype, these tactics are unlikely to help  Diet pills. Weight-loss pills have a discouraging track record. “Fat burners” such as amphetamines and...

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Diets, Diet book Ratings 06/07

Diets, Diet book Ratings 06/07 Diet books What the experts sayThese seven diet books have never been put to the acid test of a large clinical trial (unlike the diet plan Ratings). We rated them based...

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Top diets reviewed

Top diets reviewed Top diets reviewed We rate the diet books and plans. Plus: 8 strategies that work   VIDEO: Dieter's KitchenAll videos Americans don’t give up easily. Those hoping to lose weight...

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Key behaviors of those who successfully lost weight.

Key behaviors of those who successfully lost weight. Weight loss is a highly individual process, and what matters most is finding the combination of habits that work for you. But our findings suggest...

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Stay-thin strategies

Stay-thin strategies Lifetime weight history   Successful losers and the always thin do a lot of the same things—and they do them more frequently than failed dieters do. For the dietary strategies...

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Diet plan: 6 secrets of the slim

Diet plan: 6 secrets of the slim Through statistical analyses, we were able to identify six key behaviors that correlated the most strongly with having a healthy body mass index (BMI), a measure of...

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Realistic expectations: A key to dieting success

Realistic expectations: A key to dieting success Sixty-six percent of our respondents, all subscribers to Consumer Reports, were overweight as assessed by their body mass index; that's the same...

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Dieting on a budget

Dieting on a budget Videos Photos VIDEO:     Videos Photos Are you overweight? A body mass index under 25 is considered normal weight; from 25 to 29, overweight; and 30 or above, obese. Here's how to...

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