Healthy Food

The Jungle Farm helps the community plant, grow and eat healthy food

13/06/2023binomo

Who better to lead these children’s activities than future public school teachers, say Jungle Farm officials. Nicole Homan and Therese Rolheiser are both working towards their teaching degrees and are spending their summer doing what they love best – working with kids.

“I knew in Kindergarten that I wanted to be a teacher, because I love kids and working with people – and teaching checks all those boxes,” said Homan, who will be going into her third year of the Bachelor of Education program at Red Deer Polytechnic. “I’m from a family of teachers who also love the garden, so

Eight simple ways to eat healthy without blowing your food budget

04/06/2023binomo

Beating inflation doesn’t have to mean sacrificing good nutrition, says expert.

Inflation is biting into the average shopper’s food budget, but there are ways to still keep good nutrition on the table, says a University of Alberta expert.

Basic cooking skills, combined with a dash of careful planning, can help ease the price Canadians are going to pay in 2023 for groceries, says registered dietitian Heidi Bates.

“We have the ability to be savvy shoppers, to plan differently and to do more food preparation ourselves to offset inflation and still eat really well,” said Bates.

Despite sky-high prices, fruit, vegetables,

Food for thought: How your mindset can make healthy food more alluring on social media

26/05/2023binomo

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

The Evolution Of The Health Tech: Positive Change Through Interoperable Solutions

12/05/2023binomo

The American Healthcare Industry has experienced many large-scale changes in the past few decades. This timeframe has afforded us many drastic reforms in the industry such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or the widespread shift towards Value-Based Care. However, the most noteworthy and significant change is the gradual adoption of software solutions into the healthcare industry. The digitization of healthcare has brought numerous benefits to healthcare organizations that are able to streamline their day-to-day operations. More importantly, these solutions have made life easier for care providers and patients by simplifying the delivery of care. In order for these complex

Improving Patient Care Through Technology Orchestration

02/05/2023binomo

As healthcare shifts towards a more patient-centric approach, health providers across the world are looking for innovative ways to enhance the patient care journey. The infusion of software solutions into the healthcare industry has helped providers improve the overall patient experience. One of these solutions is Care Orchestration, a method that uses Information Technology (IT) to improve the care journey. Care Orchestration can be defined as the coordination of many complex computer systems, servers and applications in a way that enhances the care journey. In a clinical setting, Orchestration allows for a simplification of patient workflows and an overall improvement

The community plan builds on the success of the food kitchen

29/04/2023binomo

Building on a successful nonprofit food kitchen, the Highland neighborhood in Gastonia, North Carolina, is planning to grow in a healthy and walkable way as gentrification pressure mounts. Located northwest of downtown, Highland is home to 5,000 mostly African-American residents. A team of new urbanist practitioners recently came to the city of 77,000, 20 miles west of Charlotte, to design a building with affordable housing and ground-floor commercial space for the RAMS Kitchen (Really Amazing Meals with Soul).

The development will serve as the impetus for a broader urban development strategy that targets the social, economic, health and educational conditions

What is the healthiest oil? These two options may be best to cook with

24/04/2023binomo

Oil – we use it in frying, baking, salad dressing and even covering the entire cake around it. While oils are not a major food group, they’re still an important source of unsaturated fats and vitamin E that improve high-density lipoprotein, or “good” cholesterol levels.

But some oils contain trans fat, often used in restaurant deep fryers.

So how do you figure out which oil is the healthiest choice? Here’s what a registered dietitian has to say.

What’s the healthiest oil to cook with?

The oil at the grocery store may go on for the entire aisle, so how do