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American Family Physician November 15, 2000	Choosing Healthy, Low-Fat Foods Eating healthy foods doesn't mean losing flavor. You can choose and prepare low-fat foods that your family will enjoy....
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AskMen.com Dustin Driver	Healthiest Meats While nothing can replace a mouth-watering steak, there are plenty of tasty alternatives to red meat that are much healthier for you. Here are the top choices.
American Family Physician February 15, 2004	Nutrition: Tips for Improving Your Health Good nutrition is one of the keys to good health. Good nutrition means eating foods that have a lot of vitamins and minerals in them, and foods that are not high in fat.
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AskMen.com January 18, 2001 Simon McNeil	Deciphering What Food Labels Really Mean Nowadays, many men pay close attention to what they eat on a daily basis. After all, we want to look and feel our best for the ladies, right? The problem, though, is that we tend to become confused as soon as we read the labels on food products...
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Food Engineering January 1, 2008	MAP Packs Using CO Under Scrutiny A recent Congressional hearing on safety issues of meat and fish raised serious issues about the FDA's lack of a stand on using carbon-dioxide (CO) to extend the "fresh" appearance of meat far beyond its actual "use-by" or "freeze-by" dates.
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American Family Physician January 1, 2003	Healthy Food Choices for Losing Weight What should I eat when trying to lose weight?
Science News November 25, 2006 Janet Raloff	Birds Don't Have to Be So Hot The U.S. Department of Agriculture revised downward, by 15 F, the internal temperature that a cooked turkey must reach in order to be safe to eat. Whether consumers find the meat palatable or rubbery at 165 F is another issue.
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Food Processing June 2005 John L. Stanton	Market View: The first pyramid never worked Rather than admit failure, the government acts as if the guidelines have been working and gives us more of the same. Perhaps its up to the food and beverage industry to find new, creative solutions to America's disastrous diet.
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BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Arlene Weintraub	Commentary: A Bum Steer On Mad Cow Disease Despite USDA reassurances, America's beef supply -- and its citizens -- are at risk.
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Nutra Solutions June 1, 2005	Pyramid Power Designed to help challenge the country's growing obesity epidemic, the USDA's MyPyramid incorporates recommendations from the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
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CIO June 1, 2002 Stephanie Overby	A New Tape Measure Health-conscious shoppers might soon have an easier way to track their diet than reading food package labels. The bar codes currently used at supermarket checkouts to identify a product and its price could also provide its nutritional profile
Science News January 3, 2004 Kate Ramsayer	Putting Labels on Nutrients Do those nutrition fact boxes on packaged foods supply the information that people really need? Two new reports suggest that they don't.
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