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How to build a healthy diet
There are all sorts of diet gurus and plans out there that will tell you what they consider to be the ideal diet, but when it comes to what’s really the healthiest option, most of us don’t have a clue. Nutrition Action, the newsletter of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, recently outlined what it considers the healthiest diet for people in terms of preventing heart disease. If you’re looking for a healthy diet plan, you could do a lot worse. A tale of three diets The newslett Continue reading
Top 10 Food Poisoning Risks
Suzanne DeChillo, Chang W. Lee/The New York Times; Brendan Smialowski for The New York TimesWill these foods make you sick? The Center for Science in the Public Interest has some answers.Each year, about 76 million people in the United States become ill from the food they eat, and about 5,000 of them die, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Harmful bacteria are the most common cause of food-borne illnesses, with symptoms ranging from upset stomach to fever and severe vomiting Continue reading