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rapidfire NutritionNotes Tasty Tomatoes W AAFES Goes Where You Go D id you know the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) offers its products and beneﬁts to reserve component servicemembers and their families? AAFES currently has more than 3,100 exchange facilities worldwide — in more than 30 countries, ﬁve U.S. territories, and 49 states. Products also may be ordered from the exchange catalog by calling (800) 527-2345 or from the exchange online store, www.aafes.com. Free shipping is available for orders totaling $49 or more, containing at least one item from the military clothing sales stores, or paid for with a Military Star card (excluding some items, such as furniture and large appliances). e wait all year for freshly picked tomatoes. Well, wait no more, because August is the month when ripe tomatoes are plentiful in the garden. If you don’t have your own homegrown tomatoes, head to a local farmer’s market or grocery store for several varieties of the healthy fruit. A medium-sized tomato has fewer than 50 calories — half the calories of an apple — and also contains half of a day’s recommended daily intake for vitamin C and a fourth of the recommended daily intake of vitamin A. Tomatoes also provide small amounts of vitamins K and B-complex and other vitamins and minerals. Eating a tomato with the peel on provides you with a gram of ﬁber. The deeper the red color of a tomato, the more nutrients it has. Tomatoes also contain lycopene, which animal and some human research suggests might have a protective effect against colon, prostate, and pancreatic cancers. Other studies sugON THE WEB gest tomatoes can help ■ Rear Adm. Joyce Johnson, reduce heart disease and USPHS-Ret., D.O., provides recipes using tomatoes at www inﬂammation and help .moaa.org/august2007. Just people with atheroscleroclick on Nutrition Notes. sis and asthma. Miscellany: Calling All Runners MARINE CORPS MARATHON: The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is looking for runners to join its team for the 32nd Annual Marine Corps Marathon Oct. 28. Team members will combine their training with modest fundraising goals to help the Honoring Marines by Educating Their Children program. To join, contact Wanda Crawford at (866) 496-5462 or wanda.crawford@mcsf.org. To learn more, visit www.mcsf.org. * 2008 PHOTO CONTEST: Did any of this year’s winning photos (“In Focus,” July 2007) inspire you to enter MOAA’s 2008 Patriotic Photo Contest? MOAA will accept photo submissions through March 31, 2008. For entry rules and the submission form, go to www.moaa.org/magazine/photocontest.pdf. Winning photos will appear in the July 2008 issue of Military Officer. PHOTOS: ABOVE, JIM DANDY/IMAGES.COM; RIGHT, CORBIS AUGUST 2007 * MILITARY OFFICER 25 http://www.aafes.com http://www.moaa.org/august2007 http://www.moaa.org/august2007 http://www.mcsf.org http://www.moaa.org/magazine/photocontest.pdf

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Military Officer - August 2007 Contents From the Editor From the President Your Views MOAA Directory Rapid Fire Washington Scene Financial Forum Ask the Doctor Chapter Activities Cover Story: No Longer in Reserve A Different Path Weird Science Charge? Pages of History Faces of MOAA Member Books Information Exchange Advertising Index MOAA Calendar MOAA Scholarship Donors Sounding Taps MOAA Member Services Encore

Military Officer - August 2007

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