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CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until We Can Figure Out What The Hell Is Going On
The Centres for Disease Control has an ominous warning for the U.S. this week: Please, for the love of god, do not consume romaine lettuce of any kind.
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Let Me Tell You About The Violent Diarrhoea I Got From ‘Raw’ River Water
Going into university, I thought I understood all of the different ways poop could look. My digestion is generally bad, and my eating habits don’t help. But after returning from a four-day-long river trip, I realised just how naive a pooper I was.
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The Reason Americans Waste So Much Food
The United States wastes over 140 trillion calories of perfectly good food every year. A national survey just provided a comprehensive overview of the reasons we waste so much — and one of the most common ones is based on a total misconception.
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A Single Lab Tweak Stopped 270,000 Food Poisoning Cases A Year
Twenty years ago, a change was made to how the US did food poisoning testing. That change prevented over a quarter of a million cases each year, and it may also suggest how we could stop more cases in the future.