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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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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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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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People Are Horrified By This TikTok Of Someone Rinsing Cooked Beef Mince

tiktok of someone rinsing ground beef is going viral

This Beef Mince ‘Hack’ Is Going Viral On TikTokTikTok/eemilydharperr

We all have little cooking hacks that help make our meals “healthier.” Maybe you beef up your rice with cauliflower rice or swap sour cream for Greek yogurt. Go you! But some tips go a bit too far and turn what could be delicious and healthy food into something that is barely edible, as one TikTok user learned the hard way. This week, a video showing a woman rinsing cooked beef mince went viral for, well, obvious reasons.

TikTok user Emily Harper’s video starts out with her promising to teach you a healthy cooking hack she says she learned in her nutrition class. It all starts out fine with her cooking and then preparing to drain the mince beef (something we’ve all probably done a million times), but then things go HAYWIRE. She pours the beef into a strainer over

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