Share on PinterestThe American Heart Association has updated its recommendations about heart-healthy eating. Sergio Marcos/Stocksy Following its 2006 scientific statement, the American Heart Association (AHA) has updated its nutritional recommendations for 2021. The wide-ranging recommendations aim to provide guidance regardless of what we eat or who we are. The paper emphasizes the importance of healthy eating throughout one’s life. The AHA’s “2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health” has fresh recommendations informed by the latest research and designed to accommodate […]
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A national chain focused on healthy eating is opening Wednesday in Blawnox, the first location in the Pittsburgh area. Clean Eatz is opening at 175 Freeport Road, in a new retail plaza at the corner of Center Avenue. Owner Darryl Duncan, 58, hails from the corporate health care field and relocated to Pittsburgh from Morgantown, W.Va. He plans to open five Clean Eatz in the area. Locations have been secured in Murrysville and Cranberry while Duncan scouts options in the […]
Source: billycm / Pixabay “When the coronavirus pandemic arrived, the United States was already deeply unequal. Before the pandemic, 140 million Americans were poor…”1. Fiscal and social inequality are foundational parts of the American experience. Markers of this fact1 include the following: The gap between corporate productivity and typical worker compensation has increased dramatically since 1979. Fiscal inequality has increased dramatically in the US between 1980 and 2020. In 1980, the share of US income going to the top 10% […]
I drive down the road with the windows rolled down listening to the Tina Turner song, “What’s love got to do with it.” I turn up the radio, sing along. This song plays through my mind all day. Life is busy. We can find ourselves tired, burned out and at risk for health problems. I think of Hippocrates’s quote, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Now, after listening to Tina Turner, I ask the question: “What’s […]
Throughout my childhood, my mother would cook ‘greens,’ like cabbage, bora and pak-choi, which would be combined with rice or roti for lunch and/or dinner. Quite a few times, as I recall, I complained and voiced my dislike for cabbage but she would insist that I eat every morsel. Over time, I grew to like cabbage and now, whenever I am preparing for a show, I consume it almost daily as part of my diet, since I prefer that fibre […]
LaToya Meaders, the president and co-founder of Collective Fare, a cafe and catering company in Brownsville, Brooklyn, says it all comes down to the marketing. In Brownsville, the main thoroughfares are a parade of fast food, fried chicken, seafood and soul food restaurants, and national brands like McDonald’s have cachet. Collective Fare has thrived, Ms. Meaders said, by integrating into the community — serving a vegetable-rich cauliflower macaroni and cheese alongside the must-have fried chicken sandwiches — and hiring from […]
Healthy Food Ingredients Looking To Fill More Positions | News Dakota Posted By: Steve Urness October 18, 2021 @ 4:02 pm News VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Healthy Food Ingredients (HFI) will be a vendor at the Career & Job Expo in Valley City on Wednesday, October 20th in the Hi Liner Activity Center from 10am to 2pm. HFI is also hosting a career open house at their Valley City facility located at 849 14th Street SW on Thursday, […]
People, food and circumstances The forecast is that in 2050 there will be about 10 billion people on our planet. A lot of mouths to fill. How are we going to do that? And there is more – did you know that: More than 820 million people are hungry (source: FAO) 1.2 billion people are chronically undernourished But there are also 2 billion people who are overweight And that climate changes, pandemics and price developments have an effect on the […]
SCHENECTADY – The Schenectady Foundation said it awarded $450,000 in grant funding to six nonprofits Wednesday that are leading projects “to reduce hunger and improve access to healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate foods.” The money will be given to the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, Schenectady Community Ministries, Rotterdam’s Messiah Lutheran Church, The Food Pantries for the Capital District, Capital Roots and The Schenectady Greenmarket, according to a news release issued by the organization. The foundation said it hopes […]
In the nine years Catalina Roblero has lived in Harrisburg she has struggled to buy fresh fruits and produce. Lacking nearby grocery stores, she does most of the family shopping at corner stores, and bemoans that they mostly sell packaged and processed foods. “I don’t like to give that to my family,” she said. Roblero, a Guatemalan immigrant, doesn’t drive so it’s difficult for her to get to any of the grocery stores outside the city. Every now and then, […]
