Category: Healthy Food

Healthy food at high costs in the region

by Sheria Brathwaite

The FAO warns that healthy and nutritious foods in Latin America and the Caribbean cost more when compared to other parts of the world.

The high cost of living and income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, are among the main factors seriously affecting the accessibility and affordability of healthy food in the region, says the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

During a virtual Press Conference on Wednesday to launch the 2022 Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean, the organization revealed that the region, when compared to other parts of the world, has the highest cost of healthy and nutritious food and there was a great need to improve the affordability and access to these foods as hunger and malnutrition were on the rise.

During his presentation, the FAO’s regional representative for Latin America and

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‘Inedible’ Hospital Food Goes Gourmet Thanks to This Michelin Star Chef: ‘Everything Had to Change’

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Bruno Tison Chef

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In 2016, Sven Gierlinger — SVP, Chief Experience Officer at Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider — was tasked with hiring a chef who could redefine the company’s approach to food.

At the time, the food ratings for quality and taste at Northwell’s 21 hospitals were at an all-time low of 9%, with survey comments from staff and patients ranging from “inedible” to “tastes like plastic.”

“We need chef expertise who cares and can provide healing through the food,” Gierlinger, 51, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “The key is to focus not just on great food but healthy food, healthy ingredients.”

Gierlinger ultimately hired Michelin star chef Bruno Tison to overhaul the entire food system at Northwell. However, Tison — who spent 13 years as the executive chef at New York City’s star-studded Plaza Hotel — didn’t fully realize what he was in

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Healthy food campaigners target the UK government’s ‘healthy eating’ app

A Soil Association investigation has revealed that the NHS Food Scanner App recommends biscuits, cakes, crisps, chocolate puddings and fizzy pop as “good” options for a healthy diet. Energy drinks and instant noodles are also endorsed by the app.

The app – which has been downloaded at least half a million times – was launched as part of the UK government’s Better Health campaign. It aims to help families “take control” of snacking and awards a “Good Choice” thumbs up if a product falls below its threshold of salt, sugar or saturated fat.

But the Soil Association investigation tested the app on popular snack products and found that 80% of a sample of products with the “Good Choice” badge or similar endorsements were ultra-processed. These products are linked to heart, kidney and liver disease, cancer, depression and premature death.

With these potentially life-shortening foods making up more than half of

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A healthy diet can protect the heart, but many are confused about what’s best, survey shows

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for Americans. One in five people die from heart conditions in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Doctors say following a healthy diet and getting regular exercise can protect the heart, but a new national survey by the Cleveland Clinic suggests many Americans may have misconceptions about what’s best.

The survey, conducted online with a representative sample of 1,000 Americans, revealed many Americans have misconceptions about which diet is the healthiest.

Most Americans reported they believed low-fat and low-carb diets were the most heart-healthy. Only 15% selected the Mediterranean diet, which the Clinic recommends, as the healthiest. One in ten people surveyed said a fast-food diet is best for your heart.

Too, respondents reported barriers to eating healthy foods. Nearly half said they struggle to eat healthy food because of the cost of groceries and about

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Patient Centricity as the Future of Digital Health Management

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Digital health is an all-encompassing term that refers to the care provided through eHealth and mHealth through advances in computing sciences.

Challenges or Gaps in Traditional Care

Major technological challenges faced by the healthcare industry have got to do with data processing, cybersecurity, and providing a user-friendly experience. However, advancements in each of these fields have proven to be profitable, and will continue to do so. Our focus here is more to do with the user experience aspect of digital health management.

There are quite a number of digital health care providers, rather, platforms that avail services outside the traditional settings. Consider a regular appointment with the doctor; the patient is examined, tests are probably taken, the prognosis is given, medicines are prescribed, and the doctor sends them on their way after scheduling their next visit. What happens from then to the time of the next visit? Do patients remember

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13 Best Foods You Should Be Eating for Healthy Kidneys

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Kidneys are often looked over when we think about our overall health. However, their function is crucial to keeping our bodies in tiptop shape. Your kidneys are like filters that get rid of all the things you don’t want in your body. These two bean-shaped organs filter your blood and remove toxins and excess fluids.

Not only that, but they also keep your levels of potassium, sodium and more in check. At the same time, they produce hormones that help regulate everything from your blood pressure to your bone strength.

Long story short: Your kidneys do a lot.

So much, in fact, that they can get overtaxed. Roughly one in seven American adults has chronic kidney disease, which can cause waste and fluid buildup in your body. Worse yet, most people with CKD don’t know they have it.

Poor eating habits heighten your risk for CKD. But when you eat

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Enjoy Healthy Food in the Nusa Dua Area

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BADUNG, KOMPAS TV – Healthy food is becoming a trend nowadays for a number of tourists, especially European tourists who come to Bali for yoga, and tourists from India with a vegetarian diet.

Healthy food dishes are currently packaged into delicious food and have the same taste as non-vegan food. It’s like a steak made from tempeh, but tastes like meat.

One of them is a clay restaurant located in the Nusa Dua area, Bali. Here we provide a plain based concept for healthy food where all the food served in this restaurant is non-meat processed.

Like the Beef Less Steak which is one of the mainstay menus at this restaurant. The dish, taste, and presentation are like any other meat steak in general, but it turns out that the basic ingredients are not meat. But mushrooms, tempeh, eggplant which are molded and then frozen and then grilled so they

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Technology companies are proving to be the great equalizer

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[Part 1 of a 12-Part Series]

Healthcare is rife with significant challenges that can in some cases be minimized at the very minimum and in most cases be eliminated by the use of technology. The 12-part series begins by elaborating on macro-level challenges that the healthcare industry is starting to address with technology to stem the bleeding/reverse the onset of more severe complications.

Challenge 1: Supply and demand

Healthcare service delivery provisioning across the globe is starkly marked by the lack of adequate supply of qualified clinicians and specialists. This situation has been significantly exacerbated in the post pandemic new normal which has seen clinicians of all stripes leave their stated professions in droves. Technology companies like HealthViewX have helped alleviate this problem by building care orchestration platforms [the HOPE platform for providers and the POPE platform for payors] that allow clinicians and clinical service delivery providers the ability to

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Kids who go hungry are more likely to access care for mental health, substance use: Ontario study

Toronto resident Rhonda Miller knows how difficult it can be to afford the basic necessities.

The 52-year-old lives in an apartment with her daughter and two granddaughters, who are nine and six.

Rising rents and food prices mean Miller has to sometimes choose between paying her bills or buying groceries.

“I leave the bills until I can afford it, because I have to get the food,” she told CBC News.

The Millers rely on social assistance and income from some part-time work, but they say it’s not enough to keep pace with the rising cost of living.

“It’s really difficult because sometimes the food is what I want [my grandchildren] to eat, I can’t afford it, because the budget,” said Miller, noting she was worried about the impact on their health.

A woman wearing a hat sits in front of her kitchen.
Rhonda Miller, 52, says the family depends on her social assistance paycheck of $900 a month. But with the
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‘Government undermining food security by not supporting farmers’

The Government is failing to support sustainable farming, which undermines the UK’s food security, researchers have said.

Analysis from the think tank Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found that droughts, rising temperatures and increasing numbers of pests and diseases – all features of climate change – are plaguing UK food producers.

It said there is an urgent need to transform the UK’s food system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and halt the destruction of nature, which as a result would improve farmers’ ability to produce food.

Food poverty, as well as wastage, is also damaging the health of the UK public and its environment, and the Government needs to take a leading role in transforming the system, the researchers said.

Post-Brexit trade deals are undermining UK farmers and the country’s climate goals while offshoring the UK’s carbon footprint, they added, while supermarkets are dominating the market, buying at

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