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...found that 64.4 percent of students eat meat while 17.8 percent define themselves as vegetarians and about 1 percent are vegan. Additionally, 9.7 percent have some sort of food intolerance...
...simply adding peanuts to the diet may not be healthy, Hu warned. Rather, peanuts should be a replacement for other foods such as refined grain products or red meat, since they contain less saturated...
...tape. The Food and Drug Administration and three separate agencies within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) share authority over school lunches. Yet none has the power to recall tainted foods. The ineptness of this bureaucracy was on display last month after 1.8 million lbs. of Wampler Foods turkey meat linked to listeria were distributed to schools as part of the National School Lunch Program. It took five days for officials to tell the Cumberland Valley School District in Mechanicsburg, Pa., that the Wampler turkey slices it had continued to serve at its salad bars were part of the recall...
...this year the USDA intends to announce a plan allowing schools to purchase meat that has been irradiated. The process, which involves blasting meat with low-level radiation to kill bacteria like listeria, has its opponents, who claim it also kills nutrients. But serving meats spoiled during processing are only part of the food-borne--illness problem. The much more common causes are poor preparation in the cafeteria and poor hygiene among children, who often forget to wash their hands before picking at the salad bar. Many districts are following the lead of New Orleans, which after the Turkey...
...bird If you are choosing between breast and drumstick, go for the white meat. It has fewer calories and less fat than the dark, although both are superb sources of easily absorbed protein, B vitamins and essential minerals like zinc.Stay away from self-basting birds--on average they have nearly twice the fat and salt as the old-fashioned kind. As for the skin, if you can bear to part with it, do. That's where almost all the fat resides. A reminder: As soon as you're done, get the leftovers into the fridge. It takes just two hours...