“Efficiency” is a frequent justification for allowing corporations to consolidate vast swathes of the marketplace. But when it comes to food, huge grocery chains and ubiquitous dollar stores are limiting some rural and urban communities’ access to healthy food at the same time they bankrupt the farmers who produce it, members of a virtual panel said late last month.
Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger already control a huge amount of the nation’s grocery business. And if Cincinnati-based Kroger completes its acquisition of Albertson’sthe consolidation will still be greater.
“We’ve seen extreme concentration in the grocery sector,” Stacy Mitchell of the Institute…
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9 Healthy Foods To Eat Every Day
What you eat every day can have a profound effect on your physical and mental health. So often, people tend to think of what they should be avoiding for their health or waistlines, but a more productive way to approach food is to think of what they should be adding to their diet on a daily basis. The running theme throughout the list of healthy foods to add to eat every day is that all of these foods are plants or from plant sources.
Plants are a rich source of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and fiber, and the variety of plant…
My lazy girl dinner is great when I don’t feel like cooking but still want healthy food – I finish with a dupe cheese
A FITNESS fan has shared her quick lazy girl dinner which is great for people who don’t like cooking but still want to be healthy.
She showed viewers how to make the dairy-free signature dish in a TikTok video.
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Lifestyle digital creator Christina recently shared her lazy girl dinnerCredit: TIKTOK/@christina.thornton
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She said it’s great for when she doesn’t feel like cooking but still wants healthy foodCredit: TIKTOK/@christina.thornton
Lifestyle content creator Christina Thornton (@christina.thornton) is passionate about health, wellness, and tasty recipes.
She regularly shares exercise tips, meal prep solutions, and workout videos.
In a TikTok video, she opted…
This Is the #1 Worst Food for Visceral Fat, According to Registered Dietitians
Even the healthiest people have visceral fat, which is the belly fat deep within the abdominal cavity surrounding vital organs—including the stomach, liver and intestines.
While some levels of the fat help protect your organs, excess visceral fat can be harmful to them, eventually leading to various health conditions like heart disease, diabetes, stroke or fatty liver disease, explains Kayla Kopp, RD, Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Human Nutrition.
What Is Visceral Fat and How Does it Form?
“Visceral fat is any excess belly fat that forms deep inside your abdomen,” explains Kopp. The other type of fat, subcutaneous, is the…
Eating junk food may hinder deep sleep, study says
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FILE – Man bites into a double cheeseburger. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Researchers in Sweden found there may be a link between eating junk food and poor deep sleep.
In a recent study published in the journal Obesityhealthy participants consumed an unhealthy, as well as a healthier, diet in a randomized order.
Researchers from Uppsala University found that the quality of participants’ deep sleep had deteriorated after eating an unhealthy diet, compared to eating a healthier diet.
“Both poor diet and poor sleep increase the risk of several public health conditions. As what we eat is so important for our…
Food for thought: How your mindset can make healthy food more alluring on social media
In today’s world, our diets are often packed with fats and sugars. Our ancient instinct to crave calorie-rich foods, which once helped us survive, now leads to harmful health side-effects.
To counteract this, food content creators on social media have been trying to encourage healthy eating and healthy eating content.
But here’s the kicker — this content doesn’t get much engagement. Instead, posts that show unhealthy, high-calorie foods get more likes, shares and comments. This popularity of junk food online may tempt content creators and algorithms to show more of the same, tilting our view of “normal” eating habits towards…
Scientists warn these 14 everyday foods could be giving you brain damage
New research suggests that even the occasional “cheat meal” could lead to long-lasting brain damage as scientists reveal 14 foods that people should be wary of.
According to scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia, a diet of “clean” eating with some junk food could affect brain functions in rats.
During the experiment, the rats which ate a mostly healthy diet and only sometimes snacked on high-sugar and saturated-fat foods, showed significant cognitive impairment in tests of spatial memory.
Spatial memory allows people to remember where things are both on a short-term and long-term basis.
Spatial…
From chewing gum to eating too much veg – 9 ‘healthy’ habits that could do MORE harm than good
THOUGHT you lived a relatively healthy life?
It turns out there are several habits many of us think are doing us the world of good, when in fact they could actually be getting in the way of you staying healthy.
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Thought you were making a healthy choice? It can be tough discerning what is and isn’t healthycredit: Getty
These experts share the common mistakes that many of us may be making…
1. Eating too many high-histamine foods
You may only know of the word ‘histamine’ from packets of antihistamines, often taken during allergy season.
Hannah Braye, Nutritionist at Bio-Kult,…