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Cafeteria offers variety of healthy, nutritious meals by Joan Franco and Jessica H. Millican Dietetic Interns Looking for nutritious meals?  If your daily goals include consuming a health diet, look no further than the MUSC Cafeteria. You can find a variety of food choices to suit your appetite and fast-paced work day. For example, start with a meal that jump starts your metabolism: Breakfast—The most important meal of the day. Get the vitamins and minerals your body needs with the fresh fruit offered at the salad bar. Oatmeal offers a satisfying way to sustain you throughout the morning as well providing the benefits of fiber. If you don't like hot cereals, there is also a variety of nutritious cold cereals. Cereal contains too much sugar if the sugar grams are more than half the total carbohydrate grams. And don't forget your milk, low-fat or skim of course. Lunch—Never skip this meal. Lunch will keep you going strong throughout the remainder of the day and will help you avoid the mid-afternoon cravings for high-sugar/high-fat snack foods.  Theme Cuisine offers sizzling salads, wraps and fajitas. Go light on the cheese and sauces. The salad bar offers an array of salad greens, raw vegetables, and low-fat dressings along with a choice of flavored vinegars. When choosing a soup, go with the tomato- and broth-based ones. Spitfires Grill, the newest addition to the cafeteria, offers veggie burgers. At Charleston Market, select your vegetables from the two or three offered daily, and be on the lookout for lean meat choices. Beware of gravies and cream-based sauces. Subway has sandwiches any way you like them. Pick one that contains six grams of fat or less, without adding fat from cheese or dressings. At Chick-fil-A, grab the grilled chicken sandwich. Instead of fries, choose the baked chips offered in the cafeteria. If you crave something to end your meal, head to the salad bar for fruit salad or to the A la Carte for a small serving of  low-fat yogurt. Dinner—Charleston Market is open from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Soups and salads are also available. The nutrition information for cafeteria food items is provided to assist you in making health food choices. The MUSC Cafeteria menu is available at http://www.nutrition.musc.edu or call 792-MUSC.    Friday, March 12, 2004 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.