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calories and contain few nutrients. How can
you help your family cut down on sweets?
♦ Avoid adding sugar to food. Add fruit to
cereal and avoid sweetened cereals.
♦ Don’t serve dessert every day. Instead
of high-fat foods, offer lower-fat sugar
foods such as graham crackers and
animal crackers.
4- Offer fruit, cheese, and crackers for
snacks. Offer foods with natural sugar,
such as dried fruits.
Its a parent’s job to limit sweets. It’s
best not to bring sweets into the house -
out of sight, out of mind. But if you’re careful,
sugars can be a part of a healthful diet. Serve
them once in a while for a treat.
Safety Near the Car
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Spirit reunion for tribes in Oregon. This American Diabetes Association program
involves traditional prayers and stories to learn about diabetes.
Crockery Cooking
A crockery pot is an electric cooker
that cooks foods very slowly and easily
(Crock-pot is the trade name of one crockery
pot brand). It doesn’t cost much and allows
you to cook a meal ahead of time with very
little attention.
You can put food in the crockery pot
before going to work and come home to a
hot meal. Cooking in a crockery pot can
save money. The slow cooking tenderizes
meat, so you can buy cheaper cuts of meat.
And crockery pot cooking doesn’t heat up
the kitchen in the summer.
Beef/Vegetable Stew
What You Need
6 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
6 medium carrots, peeled and cut into
“-inch slices
1 onion, chopped
1 stalk celery, chopped
2 pounds lean boneless beef stew meat,
trimmed of fat
3 tablespoons flour
1 (14 ’ ounce) can diced peeled tomatoes
1 cup beef broth, canned or made with beef
bouillon granules
1 teaspoon dry mustard
‘ teaspoon ground pepper
* teaspoon salt
It is important to follow food safety rules
when slow cooking. Meat should not cook
below the 140°F danger zone for two hours
or more. The crockery pot temperature on
the low setting may read 200°F, but
everything in the pot may not be 200°F. If
you plan to use the low setting, turn the
crockery pot on high (300°F) for the first
hour, then turn it to the lower setting.
How to Fix
Put potatoes, carrots, onion, and celery
in bottom of a 6-quart crockery pot.
2. Coat the beef evenly with the flour; add
to the crockery pot on top of vegetables.
3. Top with the tomatoes and liquid, beef
broth, mustard, salt, and pepper.
4. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour.
Reduce heat to low; cook 7 to 8 hours.
1.
Never use frozen meat in a slow
cooker. Because it takes too long for meat
to thaw, it stays in the danger zone too long.
Cutting Sweets
Thaw frozen vegetables slightly before
adding to the pot and add them during the
last hour of cooking. Don’t take the cooker’s
cover off during cooking. Each time you take
the cover off, you lose cooking time.
Because humans are born with a
natural taste for sugar, most children prefer
sweet foods to any other foods. Many will
choose ice cream over an apple. But sweets
cause tooth decay and most are high in
Injuries to children increase in the
summer, partly because children are playing
around streets and driveways.
Check the area around your car
carefully for children, toys, bikes, and pets
before getting in. Check again before starting
your car. Make it a rule that children play
only on sidewalks or in the yard. Driveways
and parking lots aren’t safe places to play.
And if a ball rolls into the street, young
children should tell an adult or older child.
Children under age 8 think cars can
stop instantly and that drivers see them.
They can’t judge how fast cars are moving
and their field of vision is much smaller than
that of adults. Children learn by watching and
doing, so take your children for a walk.
Practice safety rules. Stop at the curb.
Listen. Look for cars to the left, to the right
and to the left again. Keep looking until you
have crossed the street safely.
If you have a garage and a garage door
opener, check it often to make sure it’s
operating correctly. Make sure paints, tools,
lawn fertilizers, and other poisons are stored
safely in the garage.
Histoplasmosis
Histoplasmosis (hiss-to-plas-MO-
sis) is a disease caused by a fungus. The
fungus causes a mild upper respiratory
infection that usually lasts for a few days. In
young and older people or people with
depressed immune systems, the infection
can result in loss of a lung, blindness, or
even death. If caught early, the disease can
be treated with antibiotics.
The fungus is found in soil where bird
or bat droppings have built up. Call the state
Department of Health for more information.
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