| Everyone who participates in sci.med.nutrition is on a diet in order to
improve their health, and promote their personal longevity, NOT to lose
weight. Furthermore, many participants believe in taking nutritional
supplements just as much as they believe in eating a healthy diet. |
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Here is an article I received today from Nutrition News Focus. I
getting this newsletter (I left the subscription info at the bottom). I
drink water filtered by Brita, but Im not sure whether it filters
flouride out. My brother in law, a dentist, said you are better off not
giving your kids bottled water b/c it doesnt have any flouride in it.
Id to hear if anyone knows whether Brita filters remove flouride. |
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Thu, 08 Apr 1999 06:17:36 -0400 in article
(in the thread History of folic acid) Tom Matthews
wrote:
Clearly, you do not have good texts!
From Krauses _Food Nutrition and Diet Therapy_ 9th Ed. p103
From _Present Knowledge in Nutrition_ 7th Ed. p206:
Im looking for a good nutrition textbook(s) which would also serve as
a reference. The books mentioned above, i.e. |
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health, nutritional treatments of illness, nutritional content of
various foods. Questions about the ethical considerations of eating
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| RATIONALE:
Right now, there are a significant number of posts on sci.med.nutrition
that are either sales pitches for nutritional products or cross-posted
arguments over the ethics of eating meat. The ethical considerations
for eating meat are on topic themes for talk.politics.animals and
rec.food.veg - they are not on topic for sci.med.nutrition. Sales pitches
are not welcome in sci groups. The on topic discussions have become
the minority in the last year, and as a result many regular contributors
have left the newsgroup. |
