Prevent Food Poisoning - Follow Safe Practices

Seventy-six million Americans will suffer a Food poisoning episode this year. Three hundred thousand victims will require hospitalization, and Food poisoning will kill about five thousand. A large percenTAGe of these poisonings could be prevented by following the very basic practices of food hygiene for keeping food clean, and keeping food handlers clean.

The majority of food poisoning episodes are caused by viruses or bacteria. These are commonly spread by particles of animal or human excreMent, by bodily fluids such as blood and urine, and by dirt that sticks to animal carcasses and to fruits and vegetables. When animal manure is used as fertilizer for fruits and vegetables, the risk of contamination is increased. Harvesting crops and transporting animals and crops offer other opportunities for exposure.

Both meat and poultry processors and plants that handle fruits and vegetables have industry-wide standards for cleanliness and safety. Plants that follow these standards greatly reduce the risk of food poisoning. When food safety inspectors follow up on contamination and food poisoning reports, they usually find serious lapses in hygiene. In January 2009, Salmonella contamination of peanut butter and other peanut-based products required a nationwide recall. Health inspectors who tracked the contaminated products back to the processing plants found appalling failures in basic sanitation, including a leaking roof, molds, fungus, bird feathers, dead cockroaches rodent droppings and dead rodents.

Both the Food and Drug Administration and the US DepartMent of Agriculture urge farms and food processors to maintain their own industry-approved standards for cleanliness and safety.

Food handlers in institutional kitchens, restaurants, and retail grocery stores have an equally strong mandate to maintain good food hygiene. In these settings, anyone who handles, prepares, or serves food should always practice sound food safety procedures. The keystone of those procedures is also the simplest: wash your hands. Anyone involved in any part of food preparation and food service should wash both hands thoroughly and scrub under fingernails before touching food. Hand-washing is even more important after using the bathroom. If a food handler has an eye infection or an upper respiratory infection, or cuts on Wrists or hands, that person should not handle food at all until the illness or infection is over, or the cuts healed.

When a worker moves to a different kind of food, especially from raw food to cooked, or poultry to fruits or salad greens or other raw vegetables, they should wash their hands thoroughly before touching the new food.

Utensils, knives, pots and pans, work surfaces and anything else that comes into contact with food should also be cleaned as thoroughly as you'd wash your hands.

Cold food stored longer than two hours, cold foods should be refrigerated at temperatures lower than 40°. Keep hot food at 140° higher. Store cooked food in wide, shallow containers that will allow heat to dissipate, and refrigerate promptly.

Kitchens that follow these commonsense practices will greatly reduce the risk of food poisoning. A restaurant, store, or institutional food server who fails to follow these practices may be found guilty of negligence. If you or a loved one has suffered a serious food-poisoning episode, and you believe negligence was involved, you should consult an experienced food safety attorney to determine whether you have an actionable claim.

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The Building Muscle Process

The building muscle process is relatively simple to understand.

With all of the information available on the internet, you'd think it would be easier to find information about just what exactly causes muscles to grow. There are quite a few misconceptions out there and this article will put down a few of those myths and reveal exactly what happens when your body builds muscle.

The whole process begins when the existing muscles in the body are put under extreme stress, such as when they push or pull more weight then they are used to pushing and pulling.

When muscles are asked to do more work than they are accustomed to, they suffer minor ruptures. You'll feel these micro-tears as muscle soreness. These mini-injuries are repAired while the body rests. The resulting muscle is slightly larger than before, better able to handle the stress that caused the initial tears.

A bodybuilder maximizes the muscle building process by continuously escalating the stress level place on muscle groups. This is accomplished by increasing the amount of weight, the repetitions of the exercises and/or changing the type of exercise used on a specific muscle, causing new micro-tears, building the muscle more and more.

Massive muscle growth requires a specific nutritional plan as well. There are three macronutrients that you'll need in correct proportions to fuel muscle growth. Carbohydrates, proteins and fats will deliver the nutritional payload your muscles call for.

Carbohydrates provide the fuel to get you through your workouts. Slow digesting, low glycemic index (GI) carbohydrates, most fruit and vegetables (excluding potatoes, corn and peas), whole grains, basmati rice and Pasta are favored because they don't cause a spike in blood sugar like high glycemic carbs will. A sharp spike in blood sugar causes an increase in insulin production which makes it more likely that Food energy would be stored as fat, not used as energy. Post workout meals, however, often contain some quickly digested carbs in order to replace glycogen in the muscles and promote protein synthesis.

Protein is the building block of muscle creation and professional bodybuilders eat massive amounts of it. For some, protein is almost one-third of their calories for the day. In addition to poultry, beef, Pork and eggs, protein powders made from whey or soy are added to meals or used as meal replaceMents in shakes.

You need approximately two tablespoons of dietary fat each day. Approved sources of fat for the muscle builder are the unsaturated kind which is liquid at room temperature and is found in canola and olive oils, nuts, seeds and avocados.

The missing components here are rest and recuperation. You've placed your body under great stress and it needs rest. The specific muscles you've worked on need to recuperate and shouldn't be exercised again until they properly recover. For most people that means at least 48 hours should elapse between workouts of the same muscles.

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Brain Food

How To Feed Your Memory

Once again, I think of Fish oil as brain Food. We know that the body uses its DHA to build and repAir the membranes that protect brain cells. DHA also appears to be necessary for brain cells to communicate with one another. Eating plenty of Fish may even lower your risk of deMentia, the gradual loss of Mental ability that sometimes accompanies aging. For example, researchers have found that people who ate Fish just once a week reduced their risk of Alzheimer's disease by sixty percent.

The same research group also found that diets high in saturated fat and trans fat (the kind in hydrogenated Cooking oils used by restaurants and Food processors) seem to increase the risk of deMentia. What appears to be healthy for preventing cardiovascular disease also appears to be helpful for preventing Alzheimer's disease.

The deficiency of omega-3s has been linked to other cognitive problems. This includes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and/or ADHD. Blood tests show that children who struggle with temper tantrum, and learning difficulties associated with this condition

Tend to have unusually low levels of DHA.

By now my dedicated followers must truly understand my passion for Fish oil.

As anyone who has ever struggled to lose weight knows, the body is very good at making its own fat, which stores most prominently on the hips, thighs and midsections but did you know that far from being deadly, daily doses of certain fats actually fight disease and keep your brain sharper. Remember we are what we think!

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Moulinex Food Processors Review

Moulinex is a United Kingdom based company that has been establishing its name in the industry for several years now. The company has lived up its reputation of providing high quality kitchen tools and appliances to all those who simply have the passion for Food. Some of its fine line of products includes the liquidizers, hand blenders, juicers citrus press, multi Food processors, kettles, and a lot more.

Some of its fine products of multi-Food blenders are the Moulinex Masterchef Delicio 1 and 2. Both blenders are equipped with a 400 Watt motor which is powerful enough to process all sorts of Food. Both food processors also come with a bowl that has a 1.5 liter capacity which is spacious enough for you to prepare food for the whole family. Some of the major functions of these food processors include thick slicing and thin and thick shredding. These food choppers also come with additional tools needed for that chef like preparations. And some of the tools included are whisking disk, calibrated pusher, citrus juicer, spatula, and a lot more.

The Moulinex DFB249 Compact Food Processor on the other hand is the perfect kitchen company for those who like to prepare food for their own. Its.8 liter capacity makes it perfect for single serving preparations. Another good thing about this food chooper is that it is made of highly durable materials so you will be assured of a long lasting blender unlike with others that have broken handles long before the motor stops working. Its compact design also makes it advanTAGeous to fit into the counter leaving more space for some work and other kitchen appliances.

Some other blenders of Moulinex include the Moulinex AAT7R4 Ovatio 3 DUO, Moulinex DFB1, Moulinex AAT4R4, Moulinex FP 4111 Vitacompact, Moulinex DF3, and a whole lot more. All of these food processors are equipped with powerful motors ranging from 400 to 800 Watts so you will be assured of great results for your everyday meals. Whether you are working on some food preparations just for yourself or for the whole family, a Moulinex choppers is the most reliable and dependable kitchen company you can have.

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