The eaTipster mobile app was created by Dietitians of Canada to make it a little easier for you to eat healthy. Dietitians serve up a trusted new tip for you each and every day.
Read Them: Each tip is fortified with more details backed by research.
Savour Them: Add tips to your favourites to digest later.
Serve Them: Dish up tips to your friends, sharing on Facebook, twitter, e-mail and text.
Get Them: Set daily reminders to receive new daily tips to suit your routine.
For the French version, change the settings to French.
Want to eat sustainably? Then eat bugs.
That’s the word from the Dutch, who are doing their best to make a scientific case for the environmental benefits of insect proteins. Reduce greenhouse gases? Check. Produce more edible protein while using less land than more traditional livestock? Check.
That last one’s an easy target; livestock take up about three-quarters of the world’s agricultural land. And livestock production is also a major source of greenhouse gases, accounting for about 15 percent of emissions caused by human activity.
Conclusion: The published literature lacks strong evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious than conventional foods. Consumption of organic foods may reduce exposure to pesticide residues and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
(From Annals of Internal Medicine)
Ann Intern Med. 4 September 2012;157(5):348-366
(From 1,000 Days, www.thousanddays.org)
Why 1,000 Days
The 1,000 days between a woman’s pregnancy and her child’s 2nd birthday offer a unique window of opportunity to shape healthier and more prosperous futures. The right nutrition during this 1,000 day window can have a profound impact on a child’s ability to grow, learn, and rise out of poverty. It can also shape a society’s long-term health, stability and prosperity.
Today, undernutrition is still a leading cause of death of young children throughout the world. For infants and children under the age of two, the consequences of undernutrition are particularly severe, often irreversible, and reach far into the future.
During pregnancy, undernutrition can have a devastating impact on the healthy growth and development of a child. Babies who are malnourished in the womb have a higher risk of dying in infancy and are more likely to face lifelong cognitive and physical deficits and chronic health problems.
For children under the age of two, undernutrition can be life-threatening. It can weaken a child’s immune system and make him or her more susceptible to dying from common illnesses such as pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria.
Interesting approach. Capital University students partnered with Columbus Public Health to explore the Empathy Experiment 2012 topic of Nutrition in America.
Launched in November 2010, the Empathy Experiment is intense student engagement experience created by President Denvy A. Bowman that offers a select group of Capital students the opportunity to participate in an innovative social experiment. The questions at issue: Can empathy be taught, and if so, what are the effects?
Capital University is a small private college in From Capital University’s website… “The education we offer is experiential, intimate, and urban. From the arts and sciences to professional programs, our teachers excel at both challenging students and creating a personalized learning environment. We believe the intellect is best developed when it’s exposed to education inside and far from the classroom. That’s how we engage the community in the pursuit of lifelong learning. In short, Capital University prepares students to contribute to the world — through both their professional lives and personal service.”
Capital University, founded in 1830, is a Lutheran-affiliated university in Bexley, OH, a suburb of Columbus, is the oldest university in Central Ohio.
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Infographic: Health Food and Weight Loss Around the World
A global survey conducted by The Nielsen Company last year found that people from different countries and cultures generally agree on how to lose weight and what foods are the healthiest.
Why It Matters: From “Cooking Skills are Important Competencies for Promoting Healthy Eating in an Urban Indigenous Health Service”
“Cooking interventions make an important contribution to promoting nutrition in urban Indigenous contexts and cooking skills are therefore important competencies for nutrition and dietetic professionals delivering practical community nutrition programs.”
(Study by Wendy Foley, et.al, conducted in Brisbane, Australia, 2011. In Partnership with Pathways to Prevention, Mission Australia.)
Image Courtesy the Institute of Culinary Education
You know that eating healthy is good for you, but you may be feeling overwhelmed by all the information that is out there. What is true and what is false? Dietitians, the food and nutrition experts, want to help you find the right answers to your nutrition questions. They are ready to give you practical, healthy eating advice by clearing up some myths:
Trans Fats are Leaving the Food Supply and the Body, Study Finds
(From NPR)
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