Dining Out Guide promotes healthful restaurant choices
Local nutrition groups publish a Dining Out Guide listing 47 Linn County sit-down restaurants with healthful practices. Nine of ten offer handicapped access and about 70 percent provide non smoking areas. Over half provide a salad bar and many use vegetable oil with sides for margarine and dressings.
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Kathy Toborg
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Light lite and lies From American Dietetic Association
The article notes that light or lite labeling may mean fewer calories or lighter taste or texture and urges label comparisons. It states oat bran descriptions have no legal meaning and that there is no national standard for organic on food labels. Regulations vary and serving sizes are not standardized.
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American Dietetic Association
Warning Against Microwave Heating Baby Formula
A Los Angeles Times Service report cautions parents about warming infant formula in a microwave. Heat can scald mouths and throats or create hot spots and nutrient loss, with warnings from formula makers and bottle producers.
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Evenflo
Los Angeles Times Service
Heat susceptors raise safety questions for microwave foods
The FDA Consumer excerpt notes microwave absorbing heat susceptors can reach high temperatures to brown popcorn and pizzas and discusses plastic dual-ovenables. CFSAN warns that high heat may cause packaging components like adhesives polymers and paper to migrate into food at excessive levels. Migration may be harmless but data are insufficient to evaluate high temperature uses.
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FDA
Center For Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
CFSAN
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