Pink Slime Ground Beef – Schools Can Opt Out, USDA To Announce
Ammonia-treated ground beef, popularly referred to as pink slime, can be omitted from school-meal purchases in the USA, if schools so wish, the USDA (US Department of Agriculture) is expected to announced today. There has been growing concern regarding the delivery of ammonia-treated ground beef to schools, while fast-food restaurants, such as McDonald’s and Burger King have stopped using it…
March 15, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: burger-king, ground-beef, growing-concern, oncalldiets, popularly-referred, such-as-mcdonald, usa, usda
The Effects Of 2 Common Sweeteners On The Body
With growing concern that excessive levels of fructose may pose a great health risk – causing high blood pressure, kidney disease and diabetes – researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, along with their colleagues at the University of Florida, set out to see if two common sweeteners in western diets differ in their effects on the body in the first few hours after ingestion…
January 25, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-pressure, colorado-school, florida, growing-concern, medicine, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, university