"Healthy Foods For Kids" Here are the best Healthy Food to Feed Baby!!! – Herald Journalism

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A Healthy Diet is a term of the Human Health Effect. Healthy foods have many categories like organic food, natural food, vegetarian food, and whole-food, etc. These products can buy easily in a healthy food store. Healthy Food For Kids benefits physical and mental health. It is suitable for a healthy lifestyle.

Milk:

Milk is the primary source of Nutrition, which contains colostrum. Milk is one of the best sources of Protein, Lactose, Calcium, and Vitamin D for kids. Milk is a part of a healthy diet, should be part of every childs diet for good health.

Apples:

Apples are a portion of excellent snack food, which is one of the healthiest foods for kids. Apples are juicy, sweet, and produced by an Apple Tree. Apple is rich in vitamin C that is good for kids health and also low in calories.

Peanut Butter:

Peanut Butter is extracted ground, dry-roasted peanuts, and also available in paste or spread. Peanut butter is the healthiest food ingredients and the taste of peanut butter, such as sweet, salty, and emulsifiers. These products reduce fat and rich in vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin B6, iron, etc. and a good source of protein.

Yogurt:

Yogurt is a dairy food, which is produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. This is a healthful food for kids health. Yogurt gives many nutritional benefits for the kids body because this is made from Live Activity Culture.

Tuna Fish:

Tuna Fish is a saltwater fish, which belongs to Thunnini. The tuna fish is one of the healthiest foods for kids. The tuna fish produce low-fat mayonnaise and whole wheat bread. Tuna fish is a good source of high-quality protein with no fat.

Breakfast Cereal:

Breakfast Cereal is a traditional food, which is made from cereal grains. Many breakfasts are made of cereal. This is very healthy. There are many types of corn, such as Cheerios, Multi-Grain Cheerios, Shredded Wheat, and Wheaties, etc. Add in chopped banana or strawberry; then kids like it even more.

Eggs:

The egg is an Organic containing the zygote to embryo development. Eggs are good for health and an excellent source of iron and protein. Many nutrients come from eggs. Eggs are rich with vitamins and minerals, which is very good for kids.

Vegetables:

Vegetables are the best food for kids, and this is the part of plants that are consumed by humans and animals as food. The greens are rich in fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, and potassium, which is very good for health and full of high-quality protein.

Oatmeal:

Oatmeal is a flour that is made by hulled oat grains. This is the best source of Nutrition. The oatmeal makes many dishes. This is a portion of good food and snacks for kids. Oatmeal is rich in high fiber food, and the primary source of cereal is whole-grain foods, which is good for kids health.

Sunflower Seeds:

Sunflower Seeds is a fruit of the sunflower. There are three types of sunflower seeds linoleic, high oleic, and sunflower oil. These are good for health for kids because this is a good source of high in fiber and iron. sunflower seeds are rich in vitamin E, phosphorus, and zinc.

Food is both healthy and tasty, which gives us a healthy lifestyle. Of course, Healthy Food For Kids is something tricky to decide, but it is essential for kids in their primary ages. A healthy lifestyle is one of the fantastic ways, which helps to improve our body health and well being.

A healthy lifestyle gives many benefits with critical health and control, such as weight, blood cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar. Healthy foods that contain the right amount of Nutrition is essential to reach every kids meal bowl. This is the best way for good health. And every kid needs to eat healthy meals for their growth.

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3 Houston innovators to know this week – InnovationMap

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Everything is different when money is on the line, and a Houston startup is using financial incentives as a motivator for its users to make smart, healthy lifestyle changes to enhance their wellness.

Healthiby, a cost-effective wellness program, is changing the game of health solutions by addressing chronic and pre-chronic conditions through innovative prevention and management methods, all incentivized by both short-term and long-term financial benefits.

"Healthiby incentivizes and empowers people to achieve better health outcomes in a team context," says Mary Beth Snodgrass, managing director and co-founder. "We're different from other wellness solutions because we're focused on changing habits, as well as incentivizing better health outcomes, providing both immediate and long-term rewards."

The company launched in May 2019 and is still in its pilot stage. Snodgrass and co-founder Dr. Tristan Hartzell, a surgeon based in Nebraska, have remained committed to their foundational concept for their startup, which is to empower people on their wellness journeys and spread knowledge about the financial benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle.

Mary Beth Snodgrass (pictured) founded Healthiby with Nebraska-based surgeon Dr. Tristan Hartzell. Photo courtesy of Healthiby.

Healthiby's notion that "health is wealth" relates to the idea that engaging in a healthy lifestyle will ultimately benefit individuals financially long-term, as healthcare costs can be avoided. Essentially, Healthiby qualifies health goals as preventative measures for chronic and pre-chronic diseases. Not only does Healthiby inform its users about the long-term financial benefits of healthy living, the program introduces exciting contests in which users are eligible to win financial rewards if they meet certain health-related criteria.

In time for the start of the new year and the health-related resolutions buzz, Healthiby enacts their user-friendly digital software application, social programs, expert health advice and financial incentives to serve their goal-oriented consumers with an engaging health management regiment that is sure to keep them on track throughout the year.

"What we're really focused on this year is, in addition to our incentives, digital content and coach guidance, is making sure that participants are engaging among themselves," Snodgrass tells InnovationMap. "Science shows there are benefits to surrounding yourself with other people who share similar health goals."

In what the program's founders refer to as a "wellness rewards solution," users are able to tap into the Healthiby digital platform to track their progress, participate in social wellness groups, invest in long-term financial incentives and access digestible, cutting edge wellness literature; all components of Healthiby's "journey goals," the program's building blocks to achieving a healthy lifestyle.

"Our software application manages our contests and our rewards, but we also have a very social component, in which participants are meeting online regularly with a dietician coach," Snodgrass explains. "The reason for this is because when we're talking about chronic and pre-chronic conditions, it's important for people to have a strong understanding of how these issues affect the body and what kinds of lifestyle changes are most effective at helping people better manage or reverse them."

Photo courtesy of Healthiby

For an annual minimum of $8 each month, individual consumers have the opportunity to invest in their own long-term wellness through this interactive, user-friendly health progress program.

"Healthiby is providing a really low cost solution for people to get additional social motivation, information, and incentives so that they can stick with their goals throughout the year," Snodgrass said.

Healthiby is currently available to individual consumers in Texas, but its founders have their sights set on expanding the business and sharing their solutions to companies vested in the importance of healthy living for their employees. For now, Houston's health and wellness consumers just got richer both physically and financially when Healthiby opened its digital doors to the city.

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Dear Abby: Couple is target of ridicule for their healthy lifestyle – Chattanooga Times Free Press

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DEAR ABBY: We need advice about how to respond to friends and family who poke fun or show disdain because of our healthy lifestyle. We are in our 60s. We rarely eat out, and when we do, we avoid fast food. We cook most of our meals with an emphasis on vegetables, fruits, fish and chicken. We exercise regularly and have occasional treats. We have no chronic illnesses and aren't on any medications.

For some reason, our food choices rub people the wrong way. If we are asked why we are in good health, we answer, "Over the years, we've learned not to consume foods or beverages that make us feel bad." If we're invited out to eat and order the baked salmon with broccoli instead of the burger and fries, we hear, "Your diet is so BORING." We usually laugh and shrug it off, but we don't think our diet is boring. We simply enjoy being healthy and know that food is "medicine." Should we continue to keep our mouths shut? HEALTHY LIVING

DEAR HEALTHY: YEP! Your friends and family react the way they do because seeing you eat the way you do makes them feel self-conscious about their own food choices. Continue laughing and shrugging to age 100. The others may not be as fortunate as you.

DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend recently discovered that I am still talking to another girl I used to date. I'll call her Kyra.

Kyra and I had agreed we would remain strictly friends, and the breakup was before I started dating my current girlfriend, "Jan." Jan is devastated by this, and I can somewhat understand why. She got cheated on multiple times in her last relationship.

Do you think I was crossing a boundary by wanting to maintain the friendship with Kyra? Or should I have dropped it when I started dating Jan? I'm asking you because everyone I talk to agrees with me, and everyone Jan talks to agrees with her. I assume it's because people agree with whoever is telling the story. You are unbiased, and your opinion would be greatly appreciated. DOING THE RIGHT THING IN UTAH

DEAR DOING: There's nothing wrong with remaining friends after a breakup. Jan is insecure because her last boyfriend cheated on her, and who can blame her? However, that is her problem, and you shouldn't make it yours. Your mistake was not telling Jan when you first started dating that you are still in touch with Kyra and that she's a platonic friend, nothing more. Jan does not have the right to control your friendships, and you shouldn't let it happen.

DEAR ABBY: How do you cut off a person who talks constantly without a break? By the time there's a lull in her speech, I have forgotten what I wanted to add to the conversation. WORD IN EDGEWISE IN PENNSYLVANIA

DEAR WORD: I have encountered compulsive talkers like her. They are exhausting. Remember, she has to breathe SOMETIME. The minute she starts to inhale, start talkin'!

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at http://www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Plant-based lifestyle: A ‘diet that fits all sizes’ – Northern Virginia Daily

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WINCHESTER Those looking to get healthy this year might be tempted to consider a fad diet. But health professionals say its healthier and more practical to choose a healthy lifestyle instead.

Plant-based diets are becoming all the rage as more and more options for vegans make their way to area restaurants and grocery stores.

These are signs of a culture shift, said Donna Michel, a retired nephrologist in Winchester who also has a certificate in plant-based nutrition and is board certified in lifestyle medicine.

When we talk about plant-based diets for health, she said, the things that were mainly talking about are avoiding animal products, avoiding eating added oils and eating primarily whole plant foods.

The beauty of a low-fat, high fiber food plan, she said, is that participants dont have to count calories or portion out food. They can eat as much as they need to because its healthy and is packed with fiber.

You feel full, you feel satisfied, youre not looking for the next thing to eat, she said. You lose weight, and once you lose it, you maintain it. And I think thats what makes this sort of a diet successful, because its not technically a diet. What it is is a lifestyle change.

Why plant-based?

Vegans avoid animal products for various reasons, from ethical concerns to health concerns to personal preference, but advocates say that animal products also are not worth the cost.

Protein is readily available from plants, Dr. Neal Barnard recently told health professionals at a program at Winchester Medical Center.

Meat and dairy contain hormones and fat, he said, egg yolks raise blood cholesterol, and egg whites are simply a glob of animal protein.

Choosing plant-based foods over others comes down to avoiding missed opportunities to eat something healthier, Dr. Michael Greger writes at his website nutritionfacts.org, a nonprofit public service providing free updates on the latest in nutrition research.

[T]heres an additional opportunity cost to eating unhealthy foods beyond just how bad they themselves may be for our health, he writes.

In terms of weight loss, he said it matters how people get their calories (the energy content of food.)

A calorie is not necessarily a calorie, Greger says in a trailer for his new book How Not to Diet, posted at his site.

A hundred calories of chickpeas has a different impact than 100 calories of chicken or Chiclets based on their different ... factors such as absorption, appetite or our microbiome, he said. [E]ven the exact same foods eaten differently can have different effects. The context in which we eat matters too.

The terms vegan and plant-based are interchangeable, Michel said, but plant-based carries with it a connotation of being healthier than a vegan diet that simply eliminates meat, dairy and eggs.

A vegan diet can still be high in fat, sugar and other refined carbohydrates while being low in fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans and legumes.

Barnard and Michel also stressed that those who dont eat meat should take a Vitamin B-12 supplement.

Plant-based diets are successful for weight loss because people can eat a greater volume of food so they dont feel deprived, Michel said.

Youre replacing high-calorie density foods with large quantities of low-calorie density foods, she said. You can eat till youre full, and thats the whole thing.

She referenced the 2017 BROAD study, a randomized, controlled trial that used a whole food plant-based diet to address obesity, ischaemic (coronary) heart disease and diabetes. It was published in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes and is indexed online at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28319109.

The study concluded that it led to significant improvements in BMI, cholesterol and other risk factors. To the best of our knowledge, this research has achieved greater weight loss at 6 and 12 months than any other trial that does not limit energy intake or mandate regular exercise.

Michel said trial participants lost an average of 19 pounds during the three-month study, but even after six-month and 12-month check-ins had maintained their weight loss.

Making the switch

Those starting a plant-based diet should know that non-meat and non-dairy options can be highly processed, greatly reducing their fiber and nutritional density while increasing sodium.

Unlike some other diets, though, the plant-based diet embraces nutrient-rich carbohydrates.

Carbs arent what people should be worried about, she said. Refined carbohydrates and refined starches are the problem.

Avoiding processed foods and oils isnt always easy, though, and Michel said she aims to keep those types of foods to 20 percent of her diet.

In general, she tries to avoid highly processed foods such as chips, flaked cereals and fake meat, instead choosing minimally processed foods like steel-cut oats and fresh tofu, or moderately processed foods like applesauce and rolled oats.

It does take a little bit of planning, she said. It doesnt have to be done expensively.

Beans and rice are inexpensive, she pointed out, and although certain fruits and vegetables (berries, celery and anything with a thin skin) are healthier if organic, she said its more important not to avoid eating produce.

I think part of the reason why plant-based diets are so foreign for people is its not the way we grew up, she said. Its not the way we learned how to eat. Its not what our food culture is in this country.

However, she said its a lifestyle anyone can do if they make the effort to learn about and prepare healthy foods.

Its the best diet for weight loss. Its the best diet for almost any condition, she said.

You have one diet that fits all sizes. I think thats the real beauty of it.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has an app for starting a plant-based diet, called the 21-Day Vegan Kickstart, for Apple and Android devices. For more information, visit kickstart.pcrm.org/en.

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Meet Larry Cook, the Villain Behind the Facebook Anti-Vaxx Scandal – Fatherly

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Last week, NBC News reported that a 4-year-old boy from Colorado had died from the flu and that users of a Facebook group, Stop Mandatory Vaccination, might have helped contribute to his deathby offering anti-vax-style medical misinformation. The man behind that group isLarry Cook. He is the second leading anti-vax advertiser on Facebook, a key player in an increasingly dangerous anti-vaxx community, and hes profiting.

In his group, members ask one another for medical advice that aims to replace traditional medicine with so-called natural remedies such as breast milk, vitamins, and supplements in lieu of prescribed medicines like Tamiflu and, of course, vaccines. Worse still, these groups offer a conspiratorial tone that pushes parents away from trusting the medical establishment (i.e. their pediatrician) over the advice of mostly uncredentialed people who have done their own research into vaccines, or naturopaths who tout supplements over medicine. The results, as one four-year-old found, can be devastating.

The mom of the boy, who has three other children, two of which she said were not vaccinated against the flu, was one of the 139,000 members of the group and posted frequently in the group before her son died. She asked for natural remedies for the flu, and notably refused to give her children Tamiflu her doctor prescribed for the whole family. Much of the coverage has been on Facebook for allowing groups like Stop Mandatory Vaccination, which is one of the largest misinformation groups on the platform. But not as much has been said about Cook the man behind the group who by his own admission, stands to gain from being able to continue to share disinformation. After all, hes built his business off of vaccine misinformation. Heres what we know about Cook based on previous media interviews and extensive online activity.

Cook bills himself as a healthy lifestyle advocate, author, filmmaker, and anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist. Doing so apparently includes organizing campaigns to harass parents whose children have died to suggest that vaccines are the cause. The group, which was created over five years ago, is just part the way that he helps disseminate anti-vaccine information. He also buys ads that target women 25 and older who live in areas with measles outbreaks, ostensibly to ensure that when lawmakers inevitably bring up tightening vaccine exemptions, a group of organized and angry parents are there to fight it every step of the way.

Now that you're a parent, how do you meet new friends?

Parenting groups or playdates

Sports leagues or group meet-ups

Around my neighborhood

I haven't met any new friends since I became a parent

Thanks for the feedback!

Per Cooks website, he became passionate about so-called natural living about 30 years ago after reading John Robbins Diet for a New America, a Pulitzer-prize nominated book about the health benefits of vegetarianism and the perils of the farm factory meat industry. The book does not mention vaccines in its 464 pages. But Cooks interest in vegetarianism and a healthy lifestyle at least according to his website, somehow eventually translated into a significant interest in the Autism controversy. He launched a website titled Biomedical Treatment for Autism. filled with unscientific rants about toxins, conspiratorial wording around gastrointestinal issues. Biomedical treatment is a sham cure that is promoted by Focus For Health, who believe there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

Cook, who is notably not a doctor nor a person with any medical training or background, took his fight about the Autism controversy, to a host of major platforms including GoFundMe, YouTube, and Facebook. In February of 2019, Cook told The Daily Beast that he had made $80,000 on GoFundMe alone, and in another report said he had spent at least $35,000 on ads to make parents question the safety and efficacy of vaccines, which will in turn help them realize why vaccine mandates could be problematic for their children.

His GoFundMe campaigns were primarily used to raise money to buy ads on Facebook, which helped drive membership to his group, his websites, and products he hawks like his book, The Beginners Guide to Natural Living. He has a category on his website titled Autism is Reversible. When The Daily Beast pressed him on where the money from the GoFundMe campaigns went, he admitted that the money goes directly into his bank account and he sometimes uses it to pay his own bills. One campaign that was to run an ad that claimed that the medical community was covering up the death of infants, raised $12,000 alone. Cook has been de-platformed from GoFundMe since early 2019 and can no longer raise money through the crowdfunding website.

An article published by The Guardian in November 2019 found that over half of Facebook ads that promote anti-vaxxer bias were funded by just two organizations: the World Mercury Project, the pet project of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Stop Mandatory Vaccinations, the group run by Larry Cook (this is compared to 83 different health organizations promoting pro-vaccine information.) The article also found that simply spending $500 on an anti-vaccine ad could get it in front of the eyes of anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000 Facebook users, and those ads usually also link to natural remedies, books, or seminars on healthy living.

Many anti-vaccination ads are still running on the platform despite the fact that in March of that same year, Facebook announced that it would take down and target all vaccine ads that contained misinformation about the so-called risks of vaccines. And it did seem like Cook was, at least for some time, prohibited on Facebook, as they took down $5,000 in advertisements that he paid for promoting vaccine disinformation.

Facebook also said that it would disable accounts that abused its anti-disinformation policy. It appears that most anti-vaxxers have been able to get around this by simply stating opposition to vaccines; not publishing disinformation about them. A January 2020 article published by Buzzfeed found that anti-vaxx ads are still rampant on the platform despite the new policy partly due to Facebooks policy that only disinformation would be banned on the platform, so ads that, say, are about whooping cough and mention vaccine controversy are able to stay on the platform; as are ads that promote alternative cures to the illness, which kills 160,000 people a year.

Another place where Cook was de-platformed somewhat surprisingly, YouTube, who announced they would de-monetize all YouTube accounts peddling vaccine misinformation in February of 2019. Until that point, Larry Cook (LarryCook333 on YouTube) had been able to make money from major advertisers while peddling lies.

While he has been booted from GoFundMe and Youtube, Cooks platform on Facebook is still formidable. Hes also been able to fundraise through his website by having membership tiers between 5 and 300 dollars a month although its unclear what such memberships actually buys members.

Cooks Stop Mandatory Vaccinations is still one of the most popular anti-vaxx groups on Facebook, and has a private group alongside it with over 150,000 followers, as well. The group had one million shares over the last year and even if Cook cant run ads anymore, its the ads that got him to such a prominent position in the anti-vaxx community, where hes able to spread disinformation that can harm children and the elderly and bring users back to his site to make money.

Whether or not Cook really believes that vaccines cause autism is irrelevant. Cook stands to gain from the proliferation of the groups, and to lose if he were to be de-platformed or barred from running ads on Facebook.

His website says his latest project and passion is fighting vaccine mandates and links out to two separate websites that promote anti-vaccine information and that regularly feed content to his Stop Mandatory Vaccination group. These groups remain insular disinfor
mation spaces that can lead vulnerable parents and people down rabbit holes, recommending them to join other, anti-vaxx or anti-proven medicine groups. And as long as Facebook and other platforms dont take a stand, people like Cook get to profit off of the fears of these parents, with shady GoFundMe campaigns, unclear membership packages, and books peddling disinformation, the groups will continue. Kids will die. Kids have died.

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Another view: of population health management – Digital Health

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In his latest column, Neil Paul, talks all things population health management, including why it can be a confusing and why is it important to local planning.

Partly in my PCN role and partly in my shadow ICP director role, Ive been spending a lot of time thinking about population health management, about big data, about risk profiling and about data quality in general.

Population health, to me, seems to be a confusing topic as it appears to mean different things to different people.

In its broadest sense it is about understanding that health is affected by many things, including the environment we live in, the choices we make, the choices that are made for us by politicians and officials and all the other socio-economic factors. This is very important and understanding the implications of policies and is vitally important if you are in a position to change or influence decision making.

Planning at a local level

There is also no doubt that planning in a broader sense is useful, interestingly I dont see much evidence of anyone doing it locally.

At a very high level, understanding how the population in an area is changing, what risk factors that population has and what problems they have or will get, should get health planners excited but they are much more focused on the now.

Most clinicians, in my experience, glaze over a bit at the mention of population health management.

Start collecting data

It seems clear to me we need to start upstream and start collecting more data. We need to take every opportunity to get basic observations as data including perhaps our other primacy care colleagues in this dentists/opticians etc.

Can we be clever and use tech without just targeting the worried well?

Going back to clinicians (whom I represent) they often want to know how to help. Just telling me Ethel is frail or is at high risk of admission is pointless as I usually know this. Yes, Id like more services to help her so mapping out numbers of people whats wrong with them and planning services to help is key however I really want to know who I can help perhaps as upstream as I can.

I dont what to know who is at most risk but whose risk I can most influence with perhaps the least intervention. Some say smoking cessation is the most cost-effective intervention, as even brief interventional advice can make a difference in year to peoples health. Yet do GPs do enough of it? Do we have enough smoking cessation services, alcohol services? Drug addiction services, weight managmenet services? Exercise on prescription, healthy lifestyle?

Do we know what medical interventions make a difference? Statins are meant to reduce your risk of a cardiovascular event by 20%. Do we think in terms of who on our list has the highest risk and have we reduced it? Have we treated to target? Have we maxed out the doses? Have we perhaps chased those that dont come and dont engage?

Should we be screening more? Should we be auditing more? Should we be harder on chasing people? Do we need to move away from just seeing people who think their sore throat needs antibiotics and give all that work to online doctors and concentrate on making people healthier?

Having the right tools

I think business intelligence (BI) and IT tools can help with a lot of this. We have some Quality and Outcomes Framework tools, but these arent perhaps enough to do this project management.

My clinical system allows me to bring up patients and see what problems they have; it doesnt easily allow me to bring up patients with groups of conditions or other characteristics and manage them as a group.

Locally my PCN is doing a heart failure project. The hospital started a heart failure clinic seeing people admitted with end stage heart failure and its been successful the readmission rates are down but to my mind its too late in the pathway. We are hoping to screen for risk factors but at moment we are making sure everyone thinks of it as a diagnosis in anyone presenting with compatible symptoms. Refers the patient for an echo and other tests, codes the ejection fraction and gets the diagnosis right, get the treatment right, record functioning in a standard way, audit our performance.

Heart failure isnt the only project Ive been working on. Ive been asking the BI people to play with what I call it the cohort problem. Effectively a multi-disciplinary team can manage 30-250 people in a year. (give or take find them, meet them, do things to them and see them again) What we need is groups where there is clear intervention that will make a difference that a team can deal with. The trick is finding these groups and putting the teams to work.

Delivering more outcomes

Collecting data and the presentation of it as useful information are key to new ways of working to delivering more outcomes with the same resources. I worry we arent spending enough time collecting good data and being agile in how we use and present it. I think as ICPs form they need to massively invest in getting people to record better data, think of innovative data sources and invest in BI teams.

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Nurturing face-to-face Connections | Health – Wahpeton Daily News

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In a time when often on-line communication is substituted with authentic connection, it is important to remember to nurture face to face connection because it is essential to your overall well being. Face to face social interaction with someone who you feel cares about you is the most effective way to calm your nervous system and relieve stress.

According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) research, interacting with another person can assist your brain in receiving a rush of helpful chemicals, such as oxytocin- a hormone that influences bonding and attachment, serotonin-a mood elevator and dopamine a motivator and happiness increaser. Supportive family, friends, and co-workers are a vital aspect of your life. A social support network is developed when life is going well. It provides the comfort of knowing that your friends are there for you if you need them. Here are some of Mayo Clinic healthy lifestyle stress management possibilities for nurturing your social network:

Volunteer. What you do to others, you do to yourself. Doing something that assists others has a positive effect on how you feel about yourself. The meaning and purpose you find in assisting others will develop a more expansive transformative life. Select a nonprofit or charitable organization that makes your heart sing and get involved. You will automatically mingle with others who share similar interests and values.

Join a gym or fitness support group. Integrating physical fitness into your day is key in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The mind, body and spirit are intrinsically linked. When you improve your physical health, youll automatically experience greater mental and emotional well-being. You can also make friends while you exercise.

Ask for Help. The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress research shows that asking for help is most often viewed as a sign of strength and good judgment. When you ask for help, you give someone an opportunity to feel valued and useful as well as keep yourselves engaged. What matters to people is far more important than what is the matter with people. What matters to people is what encourages engagement.

Call a friend or loved one now and arrange a time to connect. If you dont feel that you have anyone to call, reach out to acquaintances. Many people feel just as uncomfortable about making new friends as you do, so be the one to begin the connection. Reconnect with a long-time friend, invite a coworker out for lunch, or ask a neighbor to join you in an activity you both enjoy. Try to make it a regular get-together.

Smile and say hello to strangers you cross paths with. Making a connection is beneficial to both of you and you never know where it may lead if you are open to it!

Regardless which social networking avenue you choose, nurturing relationships is a wise investment while integrating skills such as:

Being a good listener. Listen for what is felt as well as what is said. When you really listen, you connect more deeply to your own needs and emotions, and to those of other people. Listening also strengthens, informs, and makes it easier for others to hear when its your turn to speak.

Being happy for others when they succeed and let them know by specifically telling them why you are happy for them in a face to face conversation.

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Making time for contemplation and appreciation. Think about what you are grateful for. Take time to express face-to-face how important friends and family are to you.

Be respectful of the other person and their viewpoint. Make maintaining and strengthening the relationship a priority. If a conflict does arise, focus on the present moment, on what you can do in the here-and-now to solve the issue. Disengage and move on if necessary.

Balance is key. The goal of building your social support network is to reduce your stress level, rather than add to it. Observe situations that seem to drain your energy. Limit as much as possible, people who are consistently negative and critical.

Sandy Block-Hansen, MS. St. Francis Healthcare Campus Family Footprints Coordinator. A Catholic Health Initiative Mission and Ministry program created to support, inform, and offer resources to parents in the role of parenting. She can be reached at sandrablock-hansen@catholichealth.net or 218.643.0475

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Yili Signs with Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games to become the First Healthy Food Enterprise with the Label of … – Markets Insider

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BEIJING, Aug. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- On the morning of August 30 (Beijing time), Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) and Yili Group officially announced that: Yili Group will be the only supplier of dairy products for the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Sticking to the idea of "Keep Climbing All the Way and Infuse Vigor into the Chinese Dream", put forward by its chairman Pan Gang, Yili rekindles the relationship with the Olympics andhas becomethe only food supplier for both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games - Yili has led the trail for the Chinese dairy industry.

Yili became the first and also the only dairy product sponsor for the Olympics starting in 2005. For over 12 years, Yili hasgrown along with the Olympics, has stood out as a top Asian dairy industry and the top eight worldwide. Today, Yili holds hands with Beijing 2022 Winter Games to engage in the invigoration of the Chinese Dream.

Participants said that Yili's partnership with the Winter Olympics will provide distinguished guests worldwide with the best products and services during the Games. Yili also advocates a healthy lifestyle and advertises winter sports, boosting the national health through deeds.

Yili echoes the Olympic Spirit in advancing the health development of human beings. Chinese Olympic Committee tries to promote health via sports, while Yili obtains this goal with quality product and services. This explains why COC chose Yili.

Pan Gang said that after the12-year cooperation, the Olympic Spirit "higher, faster, stronger" has already been integrated into Yili's genes. As indicated in the theme "Keep Climbing All the Way", Yili always seeks self-transcendence and has implemented such spirit into every development milestone. The cooperation between Yili and COC is based on the shared values and Yili's intention to let every customer enjoy their health. Yili is proud of providing services for global events and assisting the Chinese towards a healthy Chinese Dream.

Yili believes in "Yili represents the highest quality", andhas becomea global leader in the dairy industry through endless innovation andglobal strategies. It presented several impressive appearances on the global stage on behalf of Chinese enterprises. In terms of quality, Yili follows the "quality-first" strategy and introduces quality management to every partner of global production chains, forming a quality management system worldwide for healthy food that meets Olympian standards. In terms of innovation, Yili actively implements the "whole-chain innovation" strategy for the realization of the innovation and upgrading of the whole production chain and to establish "global smart line" for the introduction of global innovative resources. In terms of globalization, Yili, under the strategy of "global network", has initially created the establishment of a global resource network, a global R&D network and a global market network covering Asia, Oceania, Europe and America. It provides customers with quality products and services by the integration of the optimal resources of milk source, technology and talent.

Yili is committed to delivering a healthy lifestyle to over a billion customers. Joining hands with the Olympics again, Yili has become the first healthy-food provider worldwide that meets the "Both Olympics" standard. With this, Yili will embark on a new journey to transfer nutrition and vitality with Olympia quality, to accelerate the healthy Chinese Dream, and contribute to China's goal of building a prosperous society in all respects.

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Dubai Fitness Challenge: 5 things to avoid while working out – Gulf News

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Fitness trainer Mostafa Mersal showing correct workout steps. Photo: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News Image Credit:

The most common workout methods for those pursuing a healthy lifestyle are cardio or weightlifting exercises, with the aim of toning the body and looking fit.

Most people try all types or routines of workouts, even exercising six times a week, hoping that this will get them into that skinny fit jeans or shirt. But they often lack the right tips in order to keep their body in the fat burning zone and achieving their long-term goal.

The first natural fat burner is water. If you consume five per cent of your body weight on a daily basis, you will see a massive change in your overall well-being. You should also organise your food intake and consume smaller portions to improve your metabolism. Food has a huge impact on insulin levels in the body and if we avoid spikes (big meals) or drops (long hours without food) the body will function better and it will help a lot during the fat burning process.

Resistance training such as boot camps and circuit training are the best workouts to burn fat, where all the muscles are active in one go. Try keeping your heart rate between 140-160 bpm (fat burning zone) for the longest time possible. This way, you will be working on the cardio-vascular system and putting it under pressure to keep the body in that zone.

So to help you achieve those goals, here are five common mistakes people make while training, which prevents them from losing weight or shaping up their body:

1. Focusing on heavy lifting

People go to the gym and copy what they see others do and try to lift heavy weights without any professional guidance from a trainer. Heavy lifting, which will shoot your heart rate above 160bpm (pumping zone), should be done gradually and progressively with the assistance of a coach who will draw a plan to reach the desired goal. In fact, heavy lifting will grow the muscles in size and look bulkier, which is not recommended for people who are trying to lose weight when they should be focusing solely on toning their muscles.

2. Spending hours on the treadmill

Most people who want to lose weight in a short period of time use the treadmill as the easiest way to burn the excess fat even though it is actually the poorest type of training, since it only involves the lower body (legs) and does not help in shaping up the body.

3. Increasing the number of reps on the same muscle thinking that they are toning it

The term fat targeting unfortunately doesnt exist and thinking that overworking the same muscle over and over again will make you lose that fat (for example, the belly) in incorrect. In fact, to lose fat, you will have to decrease the BFP (body fat percentage) of the entire body, so you should engage as many muscles as possible to keep the heart rate level above 140bpm the entire time youre exercising.

4. Workout on a full stomach

Working out on a full stomach will make it really difficult to breath during the set. The heart would pump in most of the blood and the food that has been consumed will remain undigested in the stomach and will start to digest only after completing the workout. Additionally, you will not be able to derive the energy from whatever you have consumed, and hence a pre-workout meal should always be consumed at least 45-60 minutes before the workout. To lose weight, you should workout on an empty stomach.

5. Having a protein shake or food once you finish your workout

After the workout, the body is in the fat burning mode. The best strategy for weight loss is to eat around two hours post the workout. So you wont stop the burning cycle.

Mostafa Mersal is the lead coach of Fitness Bootcamp DXB. Follow them on Instagram at @fbcdxb.

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Kershaw talks healthy lifestyle at PLAY event – MLB.com

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"It's important that you're able to implement these tips for a healthy lifestyle at a young age so you have them at your disposal for the rest of your life," Kershaw said while addressing the group before diving into a question-and-answer session. "There are a lot of harmful substances out there, and it's crucial to be able to distance yourself from that stuff."

Kershaw's presence brought ear-to-ear smiles to kids after they had already been taken through a circuit that included agility drills on the field and batting practice in the Dodgers' underground cages.

Dodgers head athletic trainer Neil Rampe also led a discussion promoting an active lifestyle in the team's bullpen in left field.

"It's important to get in good habits," Rampe said. "We want the kids to have a say in how they live a healthy lifestyle, whether that's helping their parents out at the grocery store or just making more time for physical activities."

Several of the PLAY campaign's partners, including the Taylor Hooton Foundation and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation, were also present to help run circuits.

The PLAY campaign became the first professional sports program to include children with disabilities in 2014, and a group of children represented by the National Down Syndrome Society were in attendance Saturday.

"It makes me feel really excited when you get to see these kids interact with their favorite players and get to come onto the field," said Ruben Nieto, whose 12-year-old son, Adam, was one of the children who attended with the NDSS.

Adam and a few other kids had the chance to take a picture with Kershaw before he departed. The three-time National League Cy Young Award winner then wrapped Adam in a hug, leading the lifelong Dodgers fan to break out into celebration.

"I've learned so much from [my son]," Nieto said. "He's changed my life forever. It's amazing to be able to see how he views the world through his eyes."

The PLAY campaign was created in 2004 by the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society. It has hosted over 300 events, spanning all 30 Major League ballparks.

Dodgers assistant athletic trainers Nate Lucero and Thomas Albert and strength and conditioning coach Brandon McDaniel helped lead agility drills and throw batting practice. Justin Matlage, representing the Henry Schein Cares Foundation, led a discussion in the Dodgers' dugout on a daily guide to living healthy.

The day began with a message on the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs from Taylor Hooton Foundation president Donald Hooton Jr.

"It's important for them to hear our message because anyone can be tempted to use these drugs," Hooton Jr. said. "To be able to combine that message with coming out here and being on the field, it's perfect."

Ryan Posner is a contributor to MLB.com based in Los Angeles. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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