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Food Labels

Food Labels...

Food labels are designed to help us make healthy food choices; they are there to give us information so that we can choose between foods. How to make sense of a food label? According to the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, all packaged food products must contain the following information: Common name of the product. Name and address of the product’s manufacturer. Net contents in terms of weight, measure or...
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Food Claims...

Food claims are statements describing about the product’s or its ingredients’ safety, quality and health protective and promotional effects. There are atleast two types of food claims; one related to limits of exclusion and the other on the positive effects on health. Read More On IWH
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Food Adulteration

Food Adulteration...

Are you getting attracted by the delectable and the luscious color of the sweets displayed at the sweet shop? or the taste of that spicy deep yellow colored pakoda? And have you ever wondered why whenever you make it at home, you never get that same yellow color? Read More On IWH
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Food Borne Illness

Food Borne Illness...

Foodborne illnesses are defined as diseases, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food. Every person is at risk of foodborne illness. Foodborne illness is commonly called food poisoning, even though the physiological effects of foodborne illness are not always caused by poisons. Read More On IWH
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Food Safety

Food Safety...

Food is essential for nourishment and sustenance of life. But many times, the food that you eat to stay healthy can make you sick. It might be due to the presence of microorganisms, due to improper food handling right from the farm to the table, etc. Read More On IWH
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Eating out – Some Tips

Eating out – Some Tips...

Eating out has become a routine aspect of one’s life. No longer is that lavish buffet lunch reserved for weekends and eating with friends nor is the guilt-inducing a la carte elaborate dinner for special occasions alone. Even if eating out used to imply eating at a restaurant, the development of takeaway menus and ease of home-delivered food have added to the indulgence in foods cooked away from the home. In a sense,...
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Nutrition After Surgery

Nutrition After Surgery...

Nutritional depletion has been identified as a major cause of post-surgical complications. Causes for nutritional depletion include inadequate intake, surgical stress and the subsequent rise in the metabolic rate of the body. Why it happens Post-operatively, oral intake of foods and liquids is held off, especially in surgeries where there has been handling of the intestines, due to fear of causing problems with...
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Diabetes and Nutrition

Diabetes and Nutrition...

Medical nutrition therapy (Therapeutic nutrition) has been reported as being an important and integral aspect in the management of Diabetes. This becomes a crucial modulator in the self-management of Diabetes considering the prevalence of obesity and overweight as complicating aspects of Diabetes. Effective use of principles of nutrition in Diabetes can contribute significantly toward the prevention of or minimizing...
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Nutrition in Cancer Care

Nutrition in Cancer Care...

Cancer is a term used to refer malignant tumors. In this condition, Cells in a tissueproliferate without the normal controls on growth and spread to the adjacent issues,interfering with the function and often have undesirable systemic effects. Read More On IWH
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Nutrition and Protein Facts

Nutrition and Protein Facts...

Protein is one of the essential nutrients that are required by the human body. No other nutrient has a diversified role in keeping us alive and healthy. Protein is needed for cell replacement, maintenance and repair and regulation of a wide range of bodily functions. It is important for the growth and repair of the muscles, bones, skin, tendons, ligaments, hair, eyes and other tissues. Lack of proteins will reduce the...
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