Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter articles from August 1991

Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter archives from August 1991

Melts in your mouth, not in your beach bag. (Hershey Food Corp. invents chocolate bar called Desert Bar that withstands extreme heat for soldiers in Saudi Arabia)
August 1, 1991... The order came from the U.S. Army in September 1990. By December the first shipment had been sent. The supplier: the Hershey Food Corporation, which delivered to the troops in Saudi Arabia more than 100,000 milk chocolate candy bars that hold...

The juiceman cometh. (questionable use of infomercials to sell juicing machines and other products)
August 1, 1991... Above the whir of an electric juicer, a tanned and energetic septuagenarian exuberantly tells a television talk-show host about the disease-preventive effects of drinking raw fruit and vegetable juices. Captivating the audience with his...

Back to cooking 101. (basic rules quiz, with answers)
August 1, 1991... Perhaps you consider yourself a pretty good, if not an excellent, cook. About three out of five people do, recent questionnaire results suggest. Nevertheless, most cooks don't know many of the basics about such cooking matters as preparation...

At what price the quest for thinness? (diet in the American lifestyle; includes information on beauty and weight relationship)
August 1, 1991... "I was bad today" has become the confession of a large group of self-professed sinners, a particularly recalcitrant bunch whose offenses do not include the ordinary coveting of a neighbor's goods or lying or stealing but rather transgressions...

Keep vitamins out of children's hands.
August 1, 1991... Few parents would dream of leaving a bottle of medicine within reach of a young child; they know he might "experiment" with it by popping some into his mouth and thereby suffer a harmful overdose. Yet many mothers and fathers wouldn't think...