Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter articles from July 1994

Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter archives from July 1994

Too much of a good thing. (fruit juice given to young children)
July 1, 1994... Children under age five drink more juice than any other age group, mostly in the form of apple juice. It's easy to understand why. Even picky eaters tend to like its sweet taste, and parents perceive it to be an especially healthful beverage....

On the margarine-butter controversy.
July 1, 1994... "This has done consumers a big disservice," says Alice Lichtenstein, DSc, a heart disease researcher at Tufts. "People are now at the point of anger, and credibility has been lost among both nutritionists and physicians." She is talking...

A grain of prevention.... (bacteria present in unrefrigerated fried rice)
July 1, 1994... True or false? You forgot to refrigerate the fried rice that came with the meal you ordered in a few hours ago, but there's no need to throw it out as long as you reheat it thoroughly enough to kill any bacteria present. False. While a...

'Healthy' foods due for a checkup. (designation of healthful foods by Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture)
July 1, 1994... The butter pecan ice cream is healthy. The vegetable beef soup is not, nor are the garden potato casserole, the herbed chicken breast with fettucini, the baked ham slices, and the thousand island dressing. Such is the diagnosis of the Food...

For coffee drinkers, a shift in the daily grind. (nutritional aspects of specialty coffees)
July 1, 1994... More and more people are making like Frasier and Niles Crane, the Seattle psychiatrist siblings on the TV show "Frasier" who like to relax at a coffee bar with a cappuccino and a latte. Some 4,500 coffee outlets now brew java across the...

'The Good Calorie Diet' is bad news. (diet plan described in Philip Lipetz's book)
July 1, 1994... Americans have come a long way in their knowledge of nutrition during the last two decades. Consider that in the early 1970s about 50 percent of consumers thought of potatoes as "fattening" foods that aren't particularly good for you; today,...

Hitting the road healthfully. (low-fat foods offered by hotels)
July 1, 1994... Americans log more than a billion trips a year, most of them during the summer. In fact, the number of jaunts nearly doubles during June, July, and August, and about half include at least one night in a hotel. The problem, nutritionally...

Blocking skin cancer through diet?
July 1, 1994... Add yet another disease to the list of those from which a low-fat diet may be able to save you: skin cancer. Eating less fat than Americans generally do considerably reduces the risk of developing precancerous spots on the skin, according to...