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Are Consumers Looking for Health in Weight Concerns?
The Mayo Clinic has surveyed a large number of consumers in their online diet assessment. From more than 200,000 individuals completing this survey of mindset and motivation, they’ve come to a simple and unsurprising conclusion. It’s all about health. In fact, 83 percent of people in this survey are motivated by health in seeking to lose weight. In their very specific sample, this was five times greater than the portion of consumers looking to improve their appearance.
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Study suggests how diet may affect COVID-19 symptoms
The anti-inflammatory effects of the Mediterranean diet and certain vitamins may help to prevent some SARS-CoV-2 symptoms, according to a study in Nutrients. The study details how foods consumed in a Mediterranean diet, and vitamins D and C along with omega-3 fatty acids and other nutrients, may reduce pro-inflammatory mediators and possibly lower the severity of the inflammatory cytokine storm that often accompanies severe SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Q&A: Physicians should explore integrating a ‘food as medicine’ approach in practice
There is overwhelming evidence demonstrating the impact that food has on health, according to a report from the Center for Food as Medicine and the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center.
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NutriStyle™ Selected by Microsoft for Startups Health & Life Sciences Designed to Help Startups Quickly Scale
NutriStyle, Inc., a leading health technology company with the most comprehensive digital nutrition platform available, today announced its induction into Microsoft for Startups, a global program dedicated to accelerating the trajectory of high-potential startups to enable growth at scale. As a program member, NutriStyle will have exclusive access to Microsoft technology, mentorship, and business support.
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‘Staggering’ Doubling of Type 2 Diabetes in Kids During Pandemic
The incidence of type 2 diabetes in children appears to have doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, data from two new US studies suggest, with the lead investigator of one saying she was “surprised by the staggering increase in cases of type 2 diabetes…and the increase in severity of presentation.”
The Next Wave of Healthcare Innovation: The Evolution of Ecosystems
In the healthcare industry, ecosystems have the potential to provide integrative and comprehensive experiences to the user, while also enhancing the provider productivity and improving the affordability as well as the healthcare outcome.
Whole Foods Launches Digital Catalog Organized by Dietary Preference
Amazon.com Inc.’s Whole Foods Market has launched an online catalog that lets shoppers search by dietary preference, and provides nutritional information and ingredients.
Kroger is Changing Grocery Shopping as We Know It — and It’s Becoming a Bigger Threat to Amazon
New technology digitally displays pricing and nutritional information, video ads, and coupons, and is installed on store shelves where paper price tags hang.
Kroger, Microsoft Create Futuristic Grocery Store. Amazon, Take Note
The supermarket chain and technology giant are using the cloud to make it faster to navigate the grocery aisles and pick up online orders.
Walgreens Teams With Microsoft to Battle Amazon
Walgreens’ “digital health centers,” will begin using Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing software, moving applications and data to the tech giant’s data centers.
Albertsons Becomes Latest Microsoft Retail Partner
Joining other big retailers looking to thwart Amazon’s grocery expansion, Albertsons has signed an agreement to make Microsoft Azure its preferred cloud computing platform.
HCSC and Blue Cross Blue Shield Institute Team Up on New Healthy Food Delivery Service
FoodQ initiative initially launched in 25 zip codes in Chicago typically considered “food deserts.”
A Philosophy of Food as Medicine
The idea that your diet should be tailored to your body’s needs sounds high-tech, but it’s been part of Chinese cooking for millennia.
CVS, Walgreens Look to the Chronically Ill for a Pharmacy Cure
The chains are hoping to reverse their sagging fortunes by turning drugstores into go-to treatment centers.
What We Aren’t Eating is Killing us, Global Study Finds
Which risk factor is responsible for more deaths around the world than any other? Not smoking. Not even high blood pressure. It’s a poor diet.
As Tech Companies Move into Health Care, Here’s What to Watch in 2019
Our bodies, our tech companies.
Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All
There are a number of groundbreaking efforts that finally consider food a critical part of a patient’s medical care—and treat food as medicine that can have as much power to heal as drugs.
We're making history.
Nutrition and health software have always existed in a silo. The key link was missing - where people shop for food.
Let medicine be thy food.