Food Smarts

Ok, so I've listed the most common food-related illnesses such as diabetes, salmonella, and E. Coli, and I've even explained in detail how our food is infected. But how does it help to know how our food is infected if you don't know how to keep yourself from getting infected also? So here are a few tips to help stay healthy with food:
1) ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS wash your fruits, veggies, AND meat before cooking them, preparing them, and especially before eating them!!!!!!!!!!! Meat is just as, if not more, likely to have germs in it, so wash your meat!

2) Now I know I'm about to sound like every other adult in the world, but WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE EATING! It doesn't matter if you washed them five minutes ago. If you're about to eat, WASH YOUR HANDS!! I don't know how to make it any clearer the importance of washing you hands.

3) NEVER EVER FOR NEVER EVER eat fruit that looks ripe but doesn't taste right! Don't make the mistake of thinking, "oh, my taste buds must be off", NO! Looks can be decieving even for fruit and veggies! Also, you know how meat comes in those white foam plates thats covered in the thick plastic? Well, when meat spoils, it gives off a gas, and, since the meat is sealed tight, the plastic bubbles because of the gas. When you're looking for meat at the grocery store, look for the meat that is still air tight. If the plastic is bubble and you have to poke the plastic for it to touch the meat, that means it's spoiled! DO NOT EAT!

4) Last but not least, BOIL STUFF! germs die in extreme heat, so when you're washing your food, use hot water, and when you're washing the dishes or wiping the counters, use hot water! If you do actually eat infected food, then all the silver wear that touched that food is infected too. Regular dish washing detergent will not fix that problem. You need to boil your silverwear in hot water to kill all the germs. If your retainer somehow comes in contact with something infected, boil it too! wheather anything that has touched infected stuff is plactic or metal, boiling will fix it.

Infected food is a HUGE AND COMMON PROBLEM. it is not something to fool around with. Be careful and follow these four easy rules.