It’s where you eat, and spend a few quiet moments away from your desk and it is the dirtiest place you will come in contact with all day.
Who would think that the break room has more germs and bacteria than the bathroom?
Kimberly-Clark recently swabbed local office break rooms and found out just that.
Taxing fatty and sugary foods could help lower rates of obesity but the tax would have to big; 20% big.
Denmark and Hungary have already introduced such a tax and France has a tax on sugary drinks.
Skyrocketing obesity and diabetes has made it necessary for countries to control health care costs and a fat tax seems to be the answer.
Discouraging high calorie, nutritionally deficient foods and subsidizing healthy foods could help mitigate the problem.
“Soft drinks consumption is simpler in comparison with food, and we can be more confident of the likely effects,” says Mytton in an email. According to Mytton, when one food item is taxed, people tend to switch consumption to other food items that are not necessarily healthier. For example, if there’s a tax on foods higher in saturated fat, consumers may switch to foods high in salt. “These effects don’t really happen with drinks as the economic data suggests. They either buy a similar drink that is untaxed or they don’t buy a drink at all,” says Mytton.
The reason for this could be that the body doesn’t register liquid calories in the same way it does food calories, so it’s easier to overdo it with drinks. “People don’t tend to feel full from drinking a high-calorie drink, so it seems less likely that people will buy foods to replace taxed liquid calories,” says Mytton. “People need food, but as with alcohol and tobacco, they don’t need the extra calories they get from sugar-sweetened beverages.”
It is imperative to wash re-usable grocery bags.
There are actually a variety of bacteria and viruses, such as E-coli and salmonella, which can be spread through the use of grocery bags as they come in contact with so many bugs.
Raw meat, unwashed produce, and public surfaces in addition to the fact that many bags are made of fabrics which can harbor disease.
The simple solution is to wash and dry bags to eliminate any chance of contamination.
While the risk of contracting an illness from any particular reusable bag is low, Schaffner said, the Oregon study follows a 2010 paper by researchers at the University of Arizona and Loma Linda University that found large numbers of bacteria in reusable grocery bags, including 12 percent that were contaminated with E. coli.
When scientists stored the bags in the trunks of cars for two hours, the number of bacteria jumped 10-fold.
The debate roils; wash or don’t wash pre-washed lettuce?
You know the stuff; pre-washed, pre-cut, bagged up and ready to use.
Is it necessary to wash it yet again for safe eating?
Indeed, many (though not all) food safety specialists advise against washing bagged lettuce or spinach. Why? First, because there’s a good chance that if bacteria managed to survive commercial-scale washing with chlorinated water in the processing plant, a lot of them will survive your home washing, too.
Disease-causing E. coli O157:H7 can get trapped just below the surface of a lettuce leaf, and they’re tough to dislodge or kill. Second, there’s a real risk that you’ll end up adding bacteria to greens that were perfectly clean to start with: Your sink or cutting board may be dirtier than the lettuce.
It looks like the only way to truly insure that you are eating the safest lettuce possible would be to cook it!
The CDC says that Yellowfin tuna is most likely responsible for an outbreak of salmonella in 20 U.S. states.
The company, the Moon Marine USA Corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, is voluntarily recalling 58,828 lbs of the product, which is not available to individual consumers, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration report also released Friday.
According to a report Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no deaths have been reported, however, a total of 116 people have been infected with salmonella since the outbreak occurred, including 12 who were hospitalized as a result of the bacteria.
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