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Welcome to Dr. Irene's Virtual Kitchen -- an interactive and educational way to learn about nutrition! How much sodium is in the foods you eat every day? Do you follow the recommended serving sizes? Do you add more salt on top of that? Join Dr. Irene in her Virtual Kitchen for Episode One: "The Sodium Test!" It's your chance to test your salt smarts!
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In each round you'll be presented with four every day food items. Mouse over each item to reveal serving size and information. You must pick the food item with the lowest amount of sodium.

As you progress, each round becomes more challenging! Each round is followed up by a review of the food items, serving sizes and sodium levels.

Dr. Irene is with you every step of the way offering nutritional information, advice and her email newsletter!

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Dr. Irene's Nutrition Tidbits helps you understand the confusing world of nutrition. It is 384 pages packed with bite-sized pieces of easily digested nutrition tidbits. The book began as an e-mail newsletter written by Irene Berman-Levine, Ph.D., R.D. through the generous support of the Novartis Foundation for Health. The newsletter quickly exploded to over 80,000 international readers. This paperback brings you the first 81 issues, including highlights of nutrition research, food survival skills in this hectic world and easy menus and recipes that encourage the pleasure of food.

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Blood sugar levels and low carb diets

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Water intake recommendations

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Antioxidants in foods

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"Elemental" calcium in supplements

Oatmeal and cholesterol


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