Why fast food is harmful for health

Online restaurant aggregator Zomato has shared tips for its users that can help ensure their safety after receiving their order. The shared tips follow the guidelines of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on safe food practices to avoid the spread of the coronavirus and safeguard health through adequate nutrition. The steps include Collecting the food package and keeping it in an isolated or segregated place. Opening the package, and discarding external packing into the dustbin Washing hands with soap and water or sanitising hands with an alcohol-based sanitizer. Emptying the food content using tongs, ladles, spoons, etc. into clean serving dish/utensil. Discarding the food packages/containers carrying or holding food Washing hands with soap and clean water or sanitising hands with an alcohol-based sanitisers The above-mentioned steps were shared by FSSAI when it released a e-handbook on “Eating Right during COVID-19” for citizens on the World … [Read more...] about Things you should do after receiving food from online delivery platforms

Recent studies have examined the role of lemons in accessing carotenoids, which are beneficial phytonutrients, from other foods during the digestive process. Carotenoids can have low bioaccessibility and bioavailability, meaning that even if you eat a carotenoid-rich food like carrots, you might not absorb many of the carotenoids. A 2018 study in International Journal of Nutrition and Food Engineering found that the carotenoids in boiled or mashed carrots, when combined with lemon juice, olive oil and whey curd, were nearly 30 percent more bioaccessible than without. This suggests that lemons can be an effective exigent food, meaning that, in addition to their own nutritional properties, they can unleash benefits from other foods when combined with them. … [Read more...] about Lemons: Health Benefits & Nutrition Facts

The researchers noted that in U.S. regions where water comes from private wells, arsenic levels are higher than the EPA limit — they can be over 100 ppb — due to high abundance of arsenic in the environment. Parts of New England, the upper Midwest, the Rockies, Florida and the Southwest are affected. … [Read more...] about ‘Safe’ Arsenic Levels Harm Pregnant Mice and Offspring, Study Says

On a set of questions about safe cleaning practices, the participants didn’t fare well. Only 23 percent knew that one shouldn’t use hot water to make bleach solutions. And only 35 percent knew that bleach should not be mixed with vinegar. Fifty-eight percent knew that bleach should not be mixed with ammonia. (Heating bleach or mixing it with vinegar or ammonia can create chlorine or chloramine gases that can damage lung tissue.) Despite the poor performance on these questions, 82 percent reported that they strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with the statement that they knew how to clean and disinfect their home safely. … [Read more...] about Americans are drinking bleach and dunking food in it to prevent COVID-19

The Internet Society also reviewed "New IP," and found it similarly concerning that Huawei ignored the costs of creating duplicative and overlapping work on addressing issues in the current protocol stack. The company also didn't explain how it plans to solve the potential effects of "New IP" on interoperability with networks using the current protocol system, and the regulatory complications that might arise. … [Read more...] about Huawei’s proposal to replace TCP/IP is going nowhere fast