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Food Labels

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:57:56 +0000

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 count.

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Food Claims

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:55:25 +0000

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.

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Food Adulteration

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:53:49 +0000

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?

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Food Borne Illness

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:47:00 +0000

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.

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Food Safety

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:39:13 +0000

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.

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Eating out – Some Tips

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:35:56 +0000

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, you have no idea what you are eating when you eat out.

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Nutrition After Surgery

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:28:37 +0000

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 the normal gastrointestinal mechanisms. For this reason, surgeons usually wait till they can hear bowel sounds on auscultation with a stethoscope or until the patient passes Flatus. Once this has been noted, it is determined that the gastrointestinal system is returning to normalcy and consumption of liquids is slowly initiated, which is then followed by semi-solids and solids, based on how well the patient tolerates each stage of restoring normal intake. In addition, early initiation of oral intake has been associated with reduced cost and shorter hospital stay.

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Diabetes and Nutrition

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:19:19 +0000

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 the potentially permanent and damaging complications arising from Diabetes.

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Nutrition in Cancer Care

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:13:39 +0000

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.

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Nutrition and Protein Facts

bharti — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:08:43 +0000

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 enzyme and hormones which are needed for various metabolic activities, digestion and other important functions in the body. Antibodies and other immunity protecting elements are protein in nature and essential to keep us healthy.

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