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Salt is contained in so many foods, often hidden, that we may need to read labels and avoid certain restaurant foods to really reduce our intake of sodium. Eating red meat, the cooked muscles (and organs) of dead catde, sheep, or pigs, is both a nutritional and a philosophical issue. Nutritionally, these meats, especially the domesticated, overfed animals, contain a high amount of fat, and regular consumption of meats may add to an already fatty diet. Meats are also high in protein, phosphorus, and usually sodium, and are low in fiber, all of which may contribute to other difficulties.

Food Politics Marion Nestle See book keywords and concepts

If the FDA could be convinced to approve olestra cooking oil, P&G also could enter the billion-dollar annual markets for fried snack and restaurant foods.21 Whether the company would achieve its financial goals seemed questionable, at least in the short term. Although more than 100 million bags of chips were reported sold from the February launch through July 1998, tracking data from one of the early test markets indicated that sales fell markedly as soon as the advertising blitz ended.

Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol Mary G. Enig See book keywords and concepts

Canada, especially restaurant foods, bakery goods, snack chips, and other widely consumed processed foods. Trans Fatty Acids in U.S. Foods and Elsewhere Individual meals in fast food restaurants now provide many more times more trans fatty acids than they did a decade ago; for example, a meal of the "identical" foods showed 19.2 g trans fatty acids in 1992 versus 2.4 g trans fatty acids in 1982. This increase is largely due to the campaign waged by CSPI against the naturally saturated fats and oils. How much fat and trans fat is in some of the most popular foods?

Nonetheless, restaurant foods have similar high fat cooking methods, and many of the foods are made with the same partially hydrogenated vegetable fats and oils that are used in the United States. As noted above, labeling issues have included trans fatty acids as part of the core components for several years. Future Dietary Fat Recommendations It would be nice to have a crystal ball to look into the future as this book goes to press at the end of 1999. There is a public meeting scheduled for May 30-31, 2000 for the "National Nutrition Summit.

The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies Mark Stengler, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Using table-salt substitutes, which usually contain potassium, can help reduce sodium intake. Multivitamins also contain potassium. Unless instructed to do so by a natural healthcare practitioner, people who have kidney failure and hypokalemia (low potassium blood levels) should avoid using licorice root. Likewise, pregnant women and people with high blood pressure should use it with caution and under medical supervision. Whole licorice extract should not be combined with digitalis and diuretic medications.

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