Tag: examples of healthy food

Why is healthy food so expensive?

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BOSTON – It’s January, time to hit the grocery store to improve our nutrition. Food labels tell us what’s healthy and the price we’re going to pay for it. “It’s such a conundrum,” said William Masters, an economics professor at Tufts University. “People feel it, they know it, they see it. Remind yourself every day when you look in the grocery store and everything that is advertised as healthy is a premium product.” Organic this, less fat that. Does it seem like the nutritious stuff costs more? You’re not imagining it. “We get constantly bombarded with low this, no that,…Continue Reading

Ultra-processed food linked to 32 health problems: Study – Deseret News

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A new analysis of dozens of recent studies, including health outcomes for more than 10 million people, says consuming lots of ultra-processed food could lead to dozens of health problems — from obesity and heart disease to cancer, diabetes and even early death. The mega analysis, which was just published in BMJ, the British medical journal, reports that “diets high in ultra-processed food may be harmful to many body systems.” The list of potential harms, prepared by an international team of researchers from Australia, France, Ireland and the United States, includes “32 health parameters spanning mortality, cancer and mental, respiratory,…Continue Reading

Nordic Cooperation took lead at COP28

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The need to transform our food systems is clear. They need to become more sustainable, more competitive, and more equitable. Karen Ellemann, Secretary General, Nordic Council of Ministers stressed the importance of bridging between the climate, health and food communities in order to make it happen. “We can never phase out food like we will with fossil fuels. Food is essential to life itself,” Karen said when describing the need to transform our food systems to become more sustainable. At the Food Systems Takeover of the Nordic Pavilion on 10 December, Stefanos Fotiou, Director, UN Food Systems Coordination Hubreflected on…Continue Reading

WHO recommends stronger policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing

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WHO has released a new guideline on policies to protect children from the harmful impacts of food marketing. The guideline recommends countries implement comprehensive mandatory policies to protect children of all ages from the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages that are high in saturated fatty acids, trans-fatty acids, free sugars and/or salt (HFSS). More than 10 years after Member States endorsed WHO’s recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children in 2010, children continue to be exposed to powerful marketing of HFSS foods and non-alcoholic beverages, consumption of which is associated with negative health effects. The…Continue Reading

Does “food as medicine” make a big dent in diabetes? | MIT News

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How much can healthy eating improve a case of diabetes? A new health care program attempts to treat diabetes by means of improved nutrition shows a very modest impact, according to the first fully randomized clinical trial on the subject. The study, co-authored by MIT health care economist Joseph Doyle of the MIT Sloan School of Management, tracks participants in an innovative program that provides healthy meals in order to address diabetes and food insecurity at the same time. The experiment focused on Type 2 diabetes, the most common form. The program involved people with high blood sugar levels, in…Continue Reading