Dieting is exhausting. Counting calories, measuring portions, and depriving ourselves of the foods we crave are all part of the journey to lose weight. It’s not easy, especially when we’re busy (and hungry!). That’s why we reviewed the best meal delivery services for weight loss. They do the hard part for you, making it easy to stick to your diet and start shedding pounds in as little as one week.
From selecting the freshest ingredients to fully preparing healthy breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and even snacks, meal delivery services take all the guesswork out of dieting. And with the pandemic and…
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What’s The Difference Between Processed Foods And Ultra-Processed Foods?
You’ve likely heard health experts say that eating whole foods and skipping processed foods is a key to optimal health. A December 2022 study, for example, presented a pretty scary statistic linking ultra-processed foods to cognitive decline, saying that people who ate more than 20% of their daily calories from processed foods had a 28% faster decline in global cognition and a 25 % faster decline in executive functioning, compared with people who ate less than 20%.
If you’re wondering what an “ultra-processed” food is, you’re not alone. It’s a complicated topic.
Most foods are at least minimally processed —…
Food programs break the link between food insecurity and obesity in children
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Food FARMacias could be one part of the solution to the nation’s growing food insecurity problem, according to a new study by pediatricians at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York-Presbyterian.
Food insecurity—or lack of enough healthy food for an active, healthy life—is not just an issue of hunger. Food insecurity prevents children from reaching their full potential physically, cognitively, and socially. Children who grow up in food-insecure homes are sick more often, recover from illness more slowly, and are hospitalized more frequently. Food insecurity can contribute to obesity because people who…
Healthy Spinach Salad Recipe With Goat Cheese, Pear & Creamy Balsamic Dressing | Salads
Looking for fresh and easy for lunch or dinner? This salad recipe with goat cheese and pear is my go to for a healthy balanced meal without any big planning needed. This easy, nutritious meal, with ingredients that can be adapted based on what you have on hand, saves the day for me. I’ll share my favorite combination but I’ll also include some ideas for you to play with to make it your go to favorite as well.
The salad is a light and healthy mix of salad greens or spinach, sweet pepper, fresh pears, goat cheese and almonds.…
Guelph’s food mirage: Access to healthy food, but at what cost?
As grocery prices continue to rise, parts of Guelph are stuck in food miracles, where the neighborhood may have grocery stores nearby, but being able to purchase affordable healthy food is key to the illusion of food accessibility.
Maude Stephany lives in a Guelph food mirage.
Stephany and their family of three live downtown and don’t have access to a car. Their options for a nearby grocery store are Market Fresh. And they only use it when they are in a pinch.
Stephany’s family sits down to make their menu for the week which informs their grocery list. Much of…
Local food participants summit soak up lessons of Growing Forward Farm in Aztec
AZTEC — Speaking to a group of participants in the annual Northwest New Mexico Local Food Summit on July 21, Andrew Foster took a look around the Growing Forward Farm just south of the San Juan County government complex and offered a simple explanation for what the project was designed to do.
“This farm is what Extension does,” Foster said, referring to the San Juan County Cooperative Extension Office of New Mexico State University, which aims to translate cutting-edge agricultural research into education and action at the county level throughout the state.
Foster, the farm’s coordinator, and Bonnie Hopkins Byers,…
Donut Strike for Manna, first responders raised 30,750 healthy meals for Manna Food Bank
Local first responders raised 30,750 healthy meals during the 2023 Donut Strike for Manna.
Local law enforcement and fire departments teamed up again to fight hunger.
During the 2023 Donut Strike for Manna, eight agencies across Escambia and Santa Rosa counties collected food and funds, raising the equivalent of 30,750 healthy meals for hungry neighbors in need served by the Manna Food Bank. This year’s event brought first responders’ total contributions since 2017 to more than 160,000 healthy meals for children and families in need.
Pen Air Federal Credit Union supported the Donut Strike once again by kicking off the…
Income, healthy food access linked to life expectancy
Income and healthy food accessibility are associated with life expectancy, with the lowest life expectancy in low-income/low-access census tracts, according to a study published online June 28 in the Journal of Urban Health.
Jason Massey, MPH, from the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, and colleagues examined the association between measures of healthy food accessibility and life expectancy at birth across 67,138 contiguous US census tracts. The researchers used the 2015 Food Research Atlas Index from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on income/poverty level and distance-based geographic access to healthy food to measure healthy food access for each census tract.…