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Patricia Baird, of Patricia Baird and Associates, New York City, is a consultant to the food and healthcare industries and conducts trade and consumer marketing programs. EGG-HANDLING TIPS * Always [...]

Moving to Micro-Based Cost Accounting Since the early 1980s, cost containment has moved steadily to the forefront of issues facing healthcare providers. Moving in parallel has been the need for […]

Conch chowder. Curried goat. Eggplant with fennel sauce. Eating may be America's national pastime, but these days the focus is on food from a different America: Caribbean islands. Primed by [...]

Pesticides There is growing concern over dangers in the nation's food supply. Last year, for instance, the food industry was torn by questions regarding the safety of apples, beef, chicken, [...]

New Fat Substitutes Every day, the American population consumes more than 500 billion calories of food. Thirty-seven percent of those calories come from fat. For each of us, the average [...]

Labeling Update For the first time in 17 years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving toward sweeping changes for food labels that will provide Americans with better and [...]

Protein is the heart of a good diet. For the majority of foodservice operators, it is also the most expensive item on the menu. For this reason, it's wise to [...]

Isoniazid (INH) was given to nine patients with Huntington disease (HD) in a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial. In an earlier open trial, three of six patients had improved, and one of them remained improved after 7 years on INH. Only one patient benefited in the present trial. All patients excreted small amounts of hydrazine in their urine while taking INH, and it is this INH metabolite that elevates GABA content in brain. GABA concentrations were markedly increased in CSF during INH therapy. Lack of clinical improvement in most HD patients despite elevation of brain GABA content suggests that in the minority who are benefited, INH may be acting by some mechanism other than increase of GABAergic neuronal function.

A TAILOR with pleurisy and nephritis was described by Klippel and Feil1 in 1912 because his neck was so short that his head seemed to rest directly on his shoulders. Head movement was very limited and the hairline was low. At postmortem examination there were only four cervical vertebrae fused into one column of bone.Many similar cases have been reported. The Klippel-Feil syndrome is usually defined as the triad of short neck, low hairline, and limitation of neck movement. The radiological examination of the cervical spine shows a failure of segmentation of variable degree. Patients with this syndrome may be otherwise normal or may have a variety of additional anomalies. Some of these include sensorineural and conductive hearing loss, scoliosis, cleft palate, Sprengel's deformity, congenital heart malformation, facial asymmetry, nystagmus, micrognathia, and cranial nerve palsies.In 1932 Bauman2 noticed that four of six patients with the syndrome

Praticia Baird, president of Patricia Baird and Associates, New York City, is a consultant to the food and healthcare industires and conducts a range of marketing programs. PRINCIPLES TO REMEMBER [...]

FREEZING TIPS * Inspect all foods carefully. Store promptly. * Use proper wraps. Label and date all items. * Set freezer at 0[deg]F. or below. * Rotate stock: first in, [...]

Patricia Baird, president of Patricia Baird and Associates, New York City, is a consultant to the food and health-care industries and conducts a range of marketing programs. Shrimp has always [...]

Food Packaging Technologies Keeping up with developments in food packaging technology should be of prime importance to foodservice operators. The numerous areas of business it touches are often neglected or [...]