Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter articles from March 1995

Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter archives from March 1995

Totally misleading.(breakfast cereal claims)
March 1, 1995... Bananas for [B.sub.6], cabbage for vitamin C, pork chops for zinc, a burger for iron, and some mackerel for [B.sub.12]. According to a new ad for Total cereal, taking in 100 percent of many of your nutrient requirements is a choice between...

A 'cure' for obesity?
March 1, 1995... Much has been made in the media recently of the discovery of a gene that causes obesity. It has even been said that scientists can develop a drug to "fix" the gene and make fat people thinner. Can the reports really be true? The answer is a...

Safety drill.(handling raw meat and poultry products)
March 1, 1995... Ever since several children died and hundreds of people became ill as a result of the 1993 Jack-in-the-Box hamburger crisis, consumer groups, the government, and industry officials have been bandying about ways to beef up the nation's system of...

Healthier, trimmer, younger - in just 90 minutes a week. (strength training for older women)(Special Report)
March 1, 1995... Maida Kelly is not "acting her age." The 65-year-old Cape Cod grandmother is tearing up her local ice skating rink three times a week and taking bike rides along the ocean with the 10-speed her children bought her for her last birthday....

Tapping the market for bottled babywater.
March 1, 1995... As the bottled-water industry continues to enjoy sparkling success, with sales soaring some 160 percent since 1984, it's no wonder that baby-food manufacturers have started dipping into the waterworks as well. Beech-nut rolled out Spring Water...

For those who rely on brewed awakenings.(defining caffeine-dependency)
March 1, 1995... Anyone who suffers without his or her daily caffeine "fix" is often dubbed "addicted" in common parlance. Most experts, however, prefer more careful use of the term addiction, which carries many emotionally charged connotations. They say...

Ask the experts. (cooking ingredients cited by Rosie Daley in her cookbook, 'In the Kitchen With Rosie')
March 1, 1995... Q: Overall, I like the recipes from the cookbook In the Kitchen with Rosie by Oprah's personal chef Rosie Daley. But I'm frustrated because I can't find several of the seasonings she recommends. Any ideas on where I can get them? A: We had...