Food and Nutrition – Health Care Zone

Dark Chocolate Good or Bad Health Effects?

Helen Zachary — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 01:09:14 +0000

Dark Chocolate Good or Bad Health Effects? Is dark chocolate good or bad for your health? Health experts are still debating. Dark chocolate, which contains polyphenols, can be a part of a healthy diet according to a study which found that polyphenols found in cocoa solids may help control cholesterol levels among type II diabetics.

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Does Your Beansprouts Have Salmonella?

Helen Zachary — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:05:21 +0000

Does Your Beansprouts Have Salmonella? Wash bean sprouts properly and cook them until piping hot if its packet has no “ready to cook” mark, health officials advised the public after 169 salmonella cases since August were traced to bean sprouts. “'No one should be put off eating bean sprouts, provided they are properly cooked. The risk is in eating raw or under-cooked bean sprouts. The best advice is to follow the guidance on the packaging, but if there is any doubt or ambiguity about the instructions, cook the sprouts until they are piping hot,” North West Health Protection Agency Professor Qutub Syed was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying.

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Children Eating Disorder: Anorexia Starts as Early as Ten?

Helen Zachary — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:48:51 +0000

Children Eating Disorder: Anorexia Starts as Early as Ten? At the age of ten or under, most anorexia sufferers develop their eating disorder, a leading charity for eating disorder found in their online survey. Out of the 250 sufferers who took the online quiz on the website of Overeaters Anonymous GB, 53% said they were 10 years old or under when their eating disorder began. Only 29% said they were 11 to 15 years old when the disorder started.

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Ice Cream Listeria Infection: Signs, Symptoms, and Prevention

Helen Zachary — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:01:49 +0000

So there you are savoring the creamy deliciousness of your bowl of ice cream. You take a little scoop and carefully lift it from the bowl to your mouth. Then another scoop. Then another. “Mmmmm. Yum, yum,” you say. “This is the best way to beat the summer heat.” But days later, you develop a …

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