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Being a pet parent comes with its fair share of responsibilities, including providing a comfy dog bed (that is, if you don’t let them sleep in your own), entertaining them with toys and, most importantly, feeding them a nutritious diet. Ensuring your dog has the right food (and balancing it with their favorite dog treats) can offer multiple health benefits, including weight management and maintaining a healthy immune system, according to experts.“Commercially processed canned or kibble foods are formulated to meet dogs’ nutritional needs for proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals — they’re convenient, consistent and readily available, and they…

Whether you’re a cat parent or someone who cares for cats, ensuring they are fed well is obviously essential to their well-being. But with so many wet cat food options on the market, most of which come in cans, which is right for your little floof? “Canned diets tend to be more palatable and offer a greater variety of tastes and textures,” says Dr. Danielle Opetz, doctor of companion animal nutrition for Fromm Family Foods. “Additionally, canned diets have a much higher water content and can help with hydration and satiation.” To find the best wet cat food, I consulted…

Why improving food safety is important Access to sufficient amounts of safe food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health. Foodborne illnesses are usually infectious or toxic in nature and often invisible to the plain eye, caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances entering the body through contaminated food or water. Food safety has a critical role in assuring that food stays safe at every stage of the food chain – from production to harvest, processing, storage, distribution, all the way to preparation and consumption. With an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually, unsafe food…

It was Michele who read about hypnotherapist Richard Kellow and his “virtual gastric band” technique, which addresses emotional eating and the subconscious triggers that can underly an unhealthy relationship with food.And it was Michele who suggested her husband’s bad habits might have their roots in his years at boarding school, where boys were served a hot main meal at lunchtime and quickly learnt to bolt it down as fast as possible.“Then there’d be a mad rush to get seconds,” says Ross, who remembers always feeling hungry. “You don’t have snacks at boarding school.”AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.Later, through his working life, he’d…

People have been pleasantly surprised to find Affordable Care Act insurance plans under $10 a month since President Biden has been in office. The plans were more expensive and fewer people bought them during Donald Trump’s presidential term. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Health care in the U.S. is undeniably expensive. This is a point that President Biden and former President Donald Trump actually agree on. They’ve both talked about the problems of costly prescription drugs, surprise emergency room bills and the need for price transparency in health care. But in general, their ideas on…

By Saima Wazed, WHO Regional Director for South-East AsiaWorld Food Safety Day, marked annually on June 7, was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2018 to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and respond to public health threats associated with unsafe food.Jointly facilitated by WHO and our sister agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Food Safety Day aims to contribute to food security, consumer health, economic prosperity, agriculture, market access, tourism and sustainable development.This year’s theme is ‘Food safety: prepare for the unexpected.’ Food safety incidents can range from…

Millions of children are not getting enough nutrition for optimal growth and developmentNo child should be denied their right to good food and nutrition. Yet growing inequities, conflict, climate crises and rising food prices – combined with the overabundance of unhealthy foods, harmful food marketing strategies and poor child feeding practices – are condemning millions of children to severe child food poverty in early childhood, according to a new UNICEF report.In Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood, UNICEF warns that 181 million children in the world — about 1 in 4 children — are living in severe child…

The Canadian Paediatric Society is urging primary-care providers to screen all adolescent patients for eating disorders during routine checkups and other medical visits. The Canadian Paediatric Society is urging primary-care providers to screen all adolescent patients for eating disorders during routine checkups and other medical visits. The society released new guidelines in a position statement Thursday to help pediatricians, family doctors and nurse practitioners diagnose cases of eating disorders, which have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Wait times for eating disorder programs have grown dramatically and health-care providers in the community can help by catching eating disorders early and working…

Some 113 people have become ill with E. coli in recent weeks and experts believe it is most likely linked to a nationally distributed food item. The UK Health Security Agency says testing of samples suggests all of the cases since 25 May are “part of a single outbreak”. Based on the wide geographic spread, it is likely a contaminated batch of product that people can buy around the UK.A number of foods have carried E.coli before, including beansprouts, pre-packed salads and undercooked meat. In the New Year some Lancashire cheese was recalled as a precaution after an E. coli…

The study found that in people who received the combination, binge episodes were reduced from about 20 times a month on average, to six times a month six weeks later. People in this group also reported that they lost between 3.5kg and 4kg from the start of the study to the six-week follow-up. Dr Michaela Flynn, research associate at the institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, and first author on the study, said: “Current treatments for binge-eating disorder are only effective for some people and many need further or different support to get well. “Our…