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Frozen and Canned Foods Lose
Nutrients
Recent research further indicates that large portions of
vitally needed nutrients, essential for optimum health, are lost
due to modero methods of food preservation and processing.
Dr. Henry A. Schroeder, Professor of Physiology, Dartmouth
Medica! School, made the following disdosures in the May,
1971,
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition:
- Frozen vegetables lose on the average
from 36.7% to
44.6%
of the vitamm B
6
content of
fresh, raw vegetables. From 36.8% to 57.1% of
pantothenic acid is lost.
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FRESH IS BEST
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Buying recently harvested produce
may be a little more expensive, but will benef it your
family in the long run.
- Canned vegetables lost 57.1% to 77.4%
of the vitamin B
6
found in fresh vegetables. Losses
of pantothenic acid amount from 46.1% to 77.8%.
- Canned fisb, meat, and poultry lose 42.6%
to 48.9% of vitamin B
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- Processed and refined grains lose 51.1%
to 93.8% of vitamin B
6
and 37% to 74.1% of the
pantothenic acid found in the whole, raw product.
Seven vitamins are lost during the refining of
flour amounting from 50% to 86.3%.
- Processed meats lose from 50% to 75% of
both vitamin B
6
and pantothenic acid.
Keep in mind that these nutrient losses take place
before
the food ever reaches the consumer. More losses are likely to
occur during home food preparation before the food is finally
eaten.
lt
is obvious from these condusions that a person will
receive more nutrition by buying, preparing and eating foods
which are unprocessed.
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Dangers of Driving Too Fast
Driving too fast, or driving too fast for road conditions,
is a Jeading cause of automobile accidents.
Statistically, a driver and his passeogers' chances of
being kitled or seriously injured in an auto accident increase
as the cate of speed increases. The National Highway Safety
Bureau recently published a 12-month, nationwide survey of
the incidence of auto fatalities at various rates of speed. The
Bureau found that the death rate per 1,000 accidents was 5 at
speeds of 26 to 30 mph; 22 at 46 to 50 mph; 30 at 56 to 60
mph and 121 at speeds over 70 mph.
But many automobile accidents can be eliminated by
keeping the following driving tips in rnind.
Auto speed safety hinges on two key highway driving
principies - observing the "one-car-length-between-you-and–
the-car-in-front-of-you" rule for each 10 mph, and com–
pensating speed for adverse weather conditions and night
driving. Consider the following information.
SPEED - Even under ideal driving and road conditions
it takes the average driver
381 feet
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more than the length
of a football field - to stop the average
cae
going 70 mph.
LoosE
SNOW -
With conventional tires the distance it
takes to stop a car going 20 mph on loose snow increases
from 45 feet to 82 feet!
leE - At a speed of only 20 mph, an automobile re–
quires a
ftdl 217 feet
to stop on ice.
Foc - During a fog your visibility may
be
only 50 feet.
Since it takes 45 feet to stop a cae going 20 mph, you can't
safely drive more than 20 mph. At 30 mph approximately 78
feet is required to stop a car. At that speed you would
be
unable to stop in time to avoid a dangerous situation.
NIGHT -
It
takes the average driver in the average car
381 feet to stop at 70 mph. But effective headlight range is be–
tween 200 and 300 feet. At 70 mph the average driver would