The menu includes school staples like pasta, baked potatoes, roast dinners, fish and chips and apple crumble.

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Fitzpatrick and Link, who supervise security checkpoints at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, are going Italian on Thanksgiving Day and will be making pasta salad and baked ziti, respectively, for staff potlucks.

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But you can just as easily gorge yourself on pasta, bread, baked potatoes and orange juice as on burgers, fries and Coke.

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At my house, the pasta was always accompanied by a side of meat, such as baked chicken or veal scaloppine.

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Participants in this study who ate the Med way consumed about 200 calories more per day than the participants who ate a low-fat diet heavy on bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, fruits, vegetables and fish and light on baked goods, nuts, oils and red meat.

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