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When you go out to eat, it's often the case that the water, iced tea or soda you order comes with a wedge of lemon perched on the rim of the glass. However, according to the research done by scientists at New Jersey's Passaic County Community College, you could be endangering your health by dropping that lemon slice into your glass.

They sampled 76 lemon wedges from 21 different restaurants and found that nearly 70% produced some form of microbial growth in the lab. In total, they were able to find 25 different forms of bacteria and yeasts on the sampled lemon wedges. It is not known what effect this is having on the consumers who come into contact with these contaminated lemon wedges, however, it could be causing problems for people who have weakened immune systems.

(Oops, we seem to have posted about this just a few weeks ago. Please excuse the duplication)!

[via Dr. Mercola]

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Ever wonder if there was much difference between white meat and dark meat besides the taste? According to Dr. Mercola (a website that is often a little wacky but occasionally has some good info) white meat contains glycogen, which is a type of animal starch. It gets stored in your liver and is then broken down into glucose when it's needed.

Dark meat is that way because those are the muscles that are used more. They are full of myoglobin proteins which are responsible for moving the oxygen into the cells. When the myoglobin proteins are cooked, they turn into metmyoglobins, which contain a lot of iron. Dark meat also has more vitamins, saturated fats and omega oils (both 3 and 6) than white meat.

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