Food Safety

How to Open Coconut fruit

By smilesatme1

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Coconut fruit has a hard shell and to open it you need a dagger or anything that can crack it up. But you can try to open it by just squeezing it with your hands, let's say for how it takes for you to crack it..ha ha ha.. more »

How to Store Meat to Prevent Food Poisoning

By eHow Health Editor

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Although the media makes much of sensational food stories, the greatest food safety issue occurs in our homes. The symptoms we commonly attribute to the stomach flu can be misdiagnosed cases of food poisoning. Protein-rich foods like meat provide ... more »

How to Treat hangover fast

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Hangover can be treated fast by sipping hot leaf clover soup early in the morning. Hangover from drinking liquor makes you headaches and bad breath. Take any hot soups when you wake up in the morning and that's it. But if you want to drink with ... more »

How to Wash Your Hands Properly

By HouseWifeMafia

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Teaching kids to wash their hands long enough to actually do some good is a tiny challenge. This article will be a great tool for you to make sure your kids know how. This is also a clever little trick I use to remind myself too! This is a ... more »

How to Catch a Mouse Humanely

By zeldazeitgeist

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Mice can be dangerous, both to your health and your sanity. Here's how you can catch one and release it, so you don't have to worry about the scampering of tiny feet. Read on to learn how to catch a mouse humanely... more »

How to Clean Bronze Coins

By Jess Rhodes

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Cleaning bronze coins can be a pain. What to use? How to avoid corrosion? Well, it's fairly easy - easier than cleaning copper coins!.. more »

How to Know the Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners

By tkfinley

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The abundance of refined white sugar in our diets has become a great concern. There are substitutes on the market to help us avoid refined white sugar. We can find them for sale in supermarkets and in sugar-free, low-calorie and zero-calorie ... more »

How to Make a Sanitizer Solution With Bleach

By eHow Health Editor

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Sanitizing your counter tops, cutting boards and other food contact surfaces is an essential step in food safety. A safe bleach sanitizer solution is 50 to 100 ppm (parts per million). Anything less will not sanitize sufficiently. A solution too ... more »

How to Prevent Trichinosis

By eHow Health Editor

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Trichinosis is a food borne disease caused by the larvae of Trichinella spiralis found in infected meat. Symptoms of trichinosis can be mild--virtually non-existent in some people--to severe. In severe cases, complications such as encephalitis, ... more »

How to Disinfect Drinking Water in the Wilderness

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Disinfecting drinking water in the wilderness is an important step in preventing gastrointestinal illness... more »

How to Buy Chicken Eggs

By eHow Health Editor

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Choosing which eggs to purchase is not an easy decision these days, now that consumers are faced with the task of deciding between conventional vs. "designer" eggs. Aside from raising your own chickens in order to get the freshest eggs possible, ... more »

How to Diagnose Salmonella

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Salmonella is a digestive infection. There is a group of bacteria that cause salmonella. One type even causes typhoid fever, an all too common deadly disease in underdeveloped areas. However, other types of salmonella are not generally deadly. ... more »

How to Evaluate Restaurant Cleanliness

By eHow Health Editor

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There is nothing worse than getting food poisoning after eating out at a restaurant. The price you pay for the convenience of not having to prepare your own meal will suddenly seem steep after a visit to the doctor and having to take a few days ... more »

How to Live with a Sesame Seed Food Allergy

By GreenMomma

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Living with a sesame food allergy can be challenging. These tips will help you get through it safely... more »

How to Prevent Food Born Illnesses at Home

By Wendell Fowler

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calculates that every year in the United States, there are approximately 76 million cases of food-borne illness, with 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. With careful food preparation and cleanliness, ... more »

How to Rotate Stock

By eHow Health Editor

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Rotate stock to keep the old stock moving out first and the fresh stock going out last. If you do not rotate stock, then older stock will expire and you must throw it away. This costs money to the person throwing away the items so, prevent waste ... more »

How to Store Food Safely When Camping

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Whether it's the fresh air or the extra exercise, everyone seems to get hungrier than usual on a campout. Without the benefits of refrigerators and ovens, you should take extra steps to keep food safe when you camp. Follow the tips below... more »

How to Use Vacuum Seal Lids

By eHow Food & Drink Editor

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Vacuum seal lids prevent air from reaching your canned food and causing bacteria to grow... more »

How to - Prove Salt Is Not A "Killer"

By Tony Evans

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Having Doctors tell you salt causes high blood pressure is like hearing that the Iranians have just attacked St. George, Utah. It's a lie... more »

How to Assess the Truth of Medical Promotion Information

By mjpolitis

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Less than a hundred years ago, snake oil salesmen abounded in the health care product world. The situation is very similar today, given the plethora of new 'wonder cures' from the world of alternative medicine as well as 'modern' medicine from ... more »

How to Avoid Contamination in the Kitchen

By eHow Health Editor

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With outbreaks of E. coli and other bacteria contaminated foods, people worry more than ever about food preparation safety. Although not all contamination can be completely avoided, much of it can be contained, minimized and eliminated with ... more »

How to Avoid Food Born Pathogens

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Certain germs sometimes find their way into foods and make people sick, and typically telltale symptoms ensue, such as vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration. Full-on food poisoning from contaminated foods can even kill people. However, these germs ... more »

How to Avoid Food Poisoning

By eHow Health Editor

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While food poisoning is most common during travel to foreign countries, as the body is not accustomed to the bacteria and microbes in far away lands, food poisoning can occur anywhere, including your own kitchen. Luckily, proper planning and food ... more »

How to Avoid Getting Food Poisoning at Home

By Papaya

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Home cooked meals are ripe for spreading food poisoning. Food poisoning occurs when food is not kept under sanitary conditions and when it isn't stored at proper temperatures. Food poisoning can occur as soon as 30 minutes of ingesting ... more »

How to Avoid Illness From Fresh Produce

By Kristie Leong M.D.

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Fresh produce is a delicious and healthy way to get your daily supply of antioxidants. Unfortunately, produce can also be a source of bad bacteria such as Salmonella and E. coli. Although the risk of acquiring an illness from eating contaminated ... more »

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