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Fruits & Veggies-More Matters
This website features lots of great information on eating your fruits and vegetables. Look here for fun kid's activities and coloring pages designed to encourage kid's to eat more of these healthy foods.
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USDA's Food Pyramid Site
If you are interested in the USDA's take on what and how much your child needs to eat,this site offers calorie counts, portion sizes and information on the benifits of various foods.
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Kids Health
This site contains extensive and helpful information on a variety of health topics.
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Food and Nutrition Info Center, USDA
This link is for the Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, USDA. Visit their great collection of links, plus food safety and nutrition-related information.
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| Food Safety |
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All about Trans Fat
For LOTS of information on the trans fats found in partially hydrogentated vegetable oils, this is the site! They even have T-shirts.
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Environmental Working Group
Go here to get a free guide listing the 12 types of produce that contain the highest amounts of residue from pesticides and herbicides. The guide also listed the 12 types of conventional produce containing the least chemical residue. Armed with this information, you can decide whether or not to buy organic foods.
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CSPI 's Guide to Food Additives
Look up any food additive to see how save it is for your family. This is a great resource from the highly respected Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
Go here to download a printable card that lists the most environmentally friendly seafood choices. The card also shows which fish are high in mercury.
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Gateway to Government Food Safety Information
This site provides an extensive lists of links pertaining to food safety. All the links are to government agencies.
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EPA Fish Safety site
This website is a bit hard to navigate. However, if you want detailed information on mercury, you will find it here. Also, if your family eats fish caught in local waters, you can check this site to see if the fish are safe for your family.
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FDA's Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is another resource for reliable information on food borne illness.
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