nutrition

Put women’s nutrition on the workplace menu – Personnel Today

/ Women's Health

Workplace Menu Can Promote Women’s Health Many workplace menus still focus on satisfying hunger. There is a real opportunity to promote health and well-being throughout the workforce with better menu choices. In fact, the workforce menu can promote women’s health in particular in so many ways. Women can experience specific health-related vulnerabilities and, as such, […]

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New study shows health impacts of eating plant-based diet

/ Heart Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Plant-based Diet Health Benefits An upcoming nutrition conference plans to highlight the numerous plant-based diet health benefits. At HealthCare Too, we keep finding, posting, and commenting on such research. What we haven’t found is evidence that so much of our conventional modern Western diet promotes health. Occasionally there is something that bacon or milk or

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Trans Fats Should be Eliminated Worldwide by 2023, W.H.O. Says – The New York Times

/ Heart Health, Nutrition

Eliminating Trans Fats Worldwide There are perfectly tasty and perhaps even healthy oils we can use to prepare and flavor food. However, we have continued to use trans fats. The World Health Organization has issued guidance for eliminating trans fats worldwide. The only thing we will likely notice is better health. The World Health Organization

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Not All Calories Are Equal: Some calories can promote fat gain and obesity more than others

/ Nutrition

Not All Calories Are Equal For decades many of us have worked under the assumption that all calories are equal. Perhaps it was just wishful thinking that calories for a soda, burger and fries were the same as anything else. Research is showing that, in fact, not all calories are equal. Healthy, balanced eating involves

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California Becomes The First State To Prescribe Food As Medicine

/ Nutrition

Prescribe Food As Medicine The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates left us many important thoughts on health, including Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. While physicians around the world still pledge the Hippocratic Oath, too few receive any training in nutrition. As a result, the healthcare system overlooks the vital nature of

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Lifestyle Medicine Promotes Cost Savings: An Actuary’s Pilot Project

/ Nutrition

Lifestyle Medicine Promotes Cost Savings So simple yet so hard to change. We know lifestyle medicine promotes cost savings. There is decades of research already available and more coming every day. This article from noted holistic health advocate, John Weeks, looks at a simple experiment that produced remarkable results. Using the well-known book / movie

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Fast Food Hurts Pregnancy Chances, Increases Infertility, Study Says

/ Nutrition, Women's Health

Fast Food Hurts Pregnancy Chances While fast food is convenient, we increasingly understand it is not always that nutritious. In fact, a new study has found fast food hurts pregnancy chances. It is incredibly difficult to maintain a healthy, holistic lifestyle in these modern times. That is is more challenging when we do not have

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Artificial Sweeteners Are Bad — Linked to Diabetes, Obesity

/ Nutrition

Artificial Sweeteners Are Bad A recent study has linked artificial sweeteners to diabetes and obesity… they conditions these sweeteners are supposed to eliminate. The Perry household has had its own experience with artificial sweeteners… none of it good. Not even the taste. We have found that a smidge of honey, a pinch of brown sugar,

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