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...Lanou, a nutritionist at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. "People think of turkey as a lighter meat, less fatty," she says. "But when you take a low-cost frozen dinner, they tend to be the cheaper, fattier cuts of meat." One product with surprising nutritional content is Swanson's Hungry Man XXL Roasted Carved Turkey, which clocks in at 5,410 mg of sodium per package. "Turkey may seem a quick meal, but between sodium, fat and cholesterol, you're challenging your body to deal with excesses it may not be happy to deal with," Lanou says...
...Milk has long been a staple for lunch rooms and late-night snacks, but the new varieties of sugary milk are worth taking another look at, nutritionists say. Lanou recently examined the nutritional content of various chocolate milk cartons side by side with popular colas. "I don't think parents realize that when they offer up sweetened chocolate milk, they're generally giving their children ounce for ounce the same amount of sugar as sodas do," she says. A container of Hershey's Vanilla Cream Milkshake, for instance, has 560 calories and 77 grams of sugar. "If you're going...
...avoid calcium these days. The miracle mineral of the moment, it is being added to everything from baking flour to bread, from orange juice to Tab. Meanwhile, such familiar products as milk and yogurt, as well as Tums and Total cereal, are being touted for their high calcium content. And calcium supplements are flooding the market, with sales of liquids and pills surging from $18 million in 1980 to $240 million last year. Those who gag on the tablets, which are huge gullet pluggers, can even try getting their mineral boost in a novel way -- EZ-CAL Soft Calcium Whip...
...what scientists call bioavailability: How much of the mineral is in a form that the body can use? A cup of milk supplies 270 mg, while a 500-mg tablet of calcium carbonate provides just 200 mg. "The pharmaceutical industry is selling products on the basis of calcium content alone," says Dr. Robert Heaney of Omaha's Creighton University. "Sometimes that is sheer fraud...
...five different administrative organizations at Harvard. During this time, the discipline has always been an unsettling force within undergraduate education. Were it a colony, it would have the liveliest nationalist movement, having attempted “secession” twice, at its inception and in 1919. Today, it is content to be a privileged province...