Health Fusion: Want less stress? Eat more veggies! - Park Rapids Enterprise

This year I'm getting my fingers dirty in the vegetable garden. I'm hoping that growing our own vegetables will inspire my family to eat more of them. Yes, fruits and vegetables are part of a heart-healthy diet, and new research shows they may also benefit your mental health by helping to reduce stress.

The study, from researchers at Edith Cowan University in Australia, looked at the link between eating fruits and vegetables and the stress levels of adults. They found that those who ate more fruits and vegetables were less stressed out than those who are less. While they're not exactly sure how eating fruits and vegetables is good for mental health, the researchers say their findings strengthen the link between diets rich in fruits and vegetables and mental wellbeing.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says eating fruits and vegetables decreases your risk of many diseases, including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and some cancers.

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Just Eat Takeaway.com and Sodexo sign a global partnership, - GlobeNewswire

Amsterdam, Paris - May 27, 2021

Just Eat Takeaway.com, a leading global online food delivery marketplace, and Sodexo, the world leader of quality of life services, have signed a global partnership which will kick-off this week in Belgium and extend to other European countries in the coming period.

Belgian consumers can now use their Sodexo meal Card as a payment method for ordering their meals at a wide variety of Belgian restaurants throughout the country seven days per week via the Takeaway.com website and app. More countries including France will follow in the course of the year.

The partnership between Sodexo and Just Eat Takeaway.com will help to facilitate consumers daily life and provide them with a simple, fast and secure payment experience. It combines the very best of Sodexo’s expertise in digital transactions and Just Eat Takeaway.com’s broad range of offerings on the platform. In Belgium, this new service represents a major opportunity for the over 1.300 restaurants that will be available from launch, and more will be added over time.

For Aurélien Sonet, Global CEO of Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services:
“This partnership continues to illustrate the acceleration of the digitalisation of Sodexo. Teleworking has had a huge impact on our eating habits and has transformed the way we have lunch. In this evolution, we want to offer our consumers easy and flexible options for their meals, while supporting local restaurants. It is a great step forward to addressing the new challenges of the workplace and employee experience at work and beyond.”

“We are continuously developing new product features and innovations which are all about empowering your every food moment, including lunch. The collaboration with Sodexo connects more
consumers worldwide with the wide choice of offering on our platforms. No matter if you work from the office, home or remotely, there is always a restaurant of choice nearby,” explains Imad Qutob, Sr. Director Corporate Solutions at Just Eat Takeaway.com.

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About Just Eat Takeaway.com
Just Eat Takeaway.com (LSE: JET, AMS: TKWY) is a leading global online food delivery marketplace outside China. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Company is focused on connecting consumers and restaurants through its platforms. With nearly 250,000 connected restaurants, Just Eat Takeaway.com offers consumers a wide variety of food choice. Just Eat Takeaway.com mainly collaborates with delivery restaurants.

In addition, Just Eat Takeaway.com provides its proprietary restaurant delivery services for restaurants that do not deliver themselves.

The combination of Just Eat and Takeaway.com has rapidly grown to become a leading online food delivery marketplace with operations in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Switzerland, as well as through partnerships in Colombia and Brazil.  

For more information, please visit our corporate website: https://ift.tt/3urL9Rh

About Sodexo

Founded in Marseille in 1966 by Pierre Bellon, Sodexo is the global leader in services that improve Quality of Life, an essential factor in individual and organizational performance. Operating in 64 countries, Sodexo serves 100 million consumers each day through its unique combination of On-site Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services. Sodexo provides clients an integrated offering developed over more than 50 years of experience: from foodservices, reception, maintenance and cleaning, to facilities and equipment management; from services and programs fostering employees’ engagement to solutions that simplify and optimize their mobility and expenses management, to in-home assistance, child care centers and concierge services. Sodexo’s success and performance are founded on its independence, its sustainable business model and its ability to continuously develop and engage its 420,000 employees throughout the world.

Sodexo is included in the CAC Next 20, CAC 40 ESG, FTSE 4 Good and DJSI indices.

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19.3 billion euro in Fiscal 2020 consolidated revenues
420,000 employees as at August 31, 2020
#1 France-based private employer worldwide
64 countries
100 million consumers served daily
12.1 billion euro in market capitalization (as at March 31, 2021)

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Health Fusion: Want less stress? Eat more veggies! - Grand Forks Herald

This year I'm getting my fingers dirty in the vegetable garden. I'm hoping that growing our own vegetables will inspire my family to eat more of them. Yes, fruits and vegetables are part of a heart-healthy diet, and new research shows they may also benefit your mental health by helping to reduce stress.

The study, from researchers at Edith Cowan University in Australia, looked at the link between eating fruits and vegetables and the stress levels of adults. They found that those who ate more fruits and vegetables were less stressed out than those who are less. While they're not exactly sure how eating fruits and vegetables is good for mental health, the researchers say their findings strengthen the link between diets rich in fruits and vegetables and mental wellbeing.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says eating fruits and vegetables decreases your risk of many diseases, including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and some cancers.

Follow the Health Fusion podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

For comments or other podcast episode ideas, email Viv Williams at vwilliams@newsmd.com. Or on Twitter/Instagram/FB @vivwilliamstv.

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No, people shouldn't eat cicadas - Bangor Daily News

Michelle Kretzer is a senior writer for the PETA Foundation.

With all the recent talk about killing and eating cicadas — including people suggesting freezing them to death or boiling them alive like mistreated lobsters — here’s another idea: Don’t. And not just because they may carry a fungus that you wouldn’t want to ingest.

Cicadas are fascinating animals who have inspired everyone from Bob Dylan to the U.S. Navy, which is studying the insects in hopes of mimicking their method of sound production to transmit messages underwater. They communicate using a wide variety of vocalizations, but the songs that we hear most frequently are those that the males sing to woo potential mates. Think of the buzzing you hear in your backyard as a cicada-style Ed Sheeran concert. And unlike the frat guys down the block, these polite insects respect quiet nighttime hours and only play their music loudly during the day.

Cicadas likely have much more to teach us. They are able to keep track of time during years spent underground just by tasting the minute changes in root fluid that occur when trees blossom in the spring. And they know exactly when to emerge by sensing that the ground temperature is a precise 64 degrees Fahrenheit. When you see a cicada — or any animal — flitting around outside, they are working to accomplish what they set out to achieve that day, just as we do.

Theologian and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer said, “Each of us must live daily from judgment to judgment, deciding each case as it arises as wisely and mercifully as we can.” When humans have so many other choices for a snack, is there really justification for killing intelligent animals for a novelty, like a gross-out challenge in a lowbrow reality show?

If the reasoning is “to eat sustainably,” we can do much better. The most eco-friendly meals aren’t “nose-to-tail” but “root-to-top.” Cicadas — like many animals — are already threatened by human overpopulation, urban sprawl, deforestation and climate change, the latter two being caused, in large part, by animal agriculture. The United Nations reports that raising animals for food is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.”

Instead of asking, “What other animals could we exploit?” the question should be, “Why don’t we just get our nutrients from fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains instead?” Eating all the insects won’t magically solve the problem of how to feed 7 billion humans. Eating plants ourselves instead of funneling massive amounts of them through other animals will.

Animals — including cicadas — serve important purposes in nature. Far from threatening gardens, periodical cicadas are actually quite handy to have in the yard. They aren’t interested in flowers or vegetables, preferring to get their healthy greens from trees and shrubs. They generally don’t live above ground long enough to do much damage, but if homeowners are concerned about small trees, they can wrap the trunks in spun polyolefin and the cicadas will move on. If you do let them stay, however, they’ll aerate your lawn even better than earthworms do when they burrow. And as the females dig tiny trenches in branches to lay their eggs in, they naturally prune the trees, resulting in more flowers for pollinators and fruit for us. When the cicadas are gone next month, the discarded exoskeletons they leave behind will make excellent nitrogen- and potassium-rich, chemical-free fertilizer.

We should reject the idea that cicadas have no inherent value, as well as the speciesist notion that all animals belong to humans to do with as we please. Holocaust survivor and author Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote, “When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others.” Achieving a kinder and more equal society starts with teaching our children to learn about and appreciate others and that those who look and think differently from us are still deserving of respect.

If cicadas can wait underground for 17 years just to enjoy one month of life, can’t we be evolved enough to let them have it?

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People who eat a plant-based dinner could reduce their risk of heart disease by ten percent - Science Daily

People who eat too many refined carbs and fatty meats for dinner have a higher risk of heart disease than those who eat a similar diet for breakfast, according to a nationwide study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Cardiovascular diseases like congestive heart failure, heart attack and stroke are the number one cause of death globally, taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year. Eating lots of saturated fat, processed meats and added sugars can raise your cholesterol and increase your risk of heart disease. Eating a heart-healthy diet with more whole carbohydrates like vegetables and grains and less meat can significantly offset the risk of cardiovascular disease.

"Meal timing along with food quality are important factors to consider when looking for ways to lower your risk of heart disease. Our study found people who eat a plant-based dinner with more whole carbs and unsaturated fats reduced their risk of heart disease by ten percent," said study author Ying Li of the Harbin Medical University in Harbin, China. "It's always recommended to eat a healthy diet, especially for those at high risk for heart disease, but we found that eating meat and refined carbs for breakfast instead of dinner was associated with a lower risk."

The researchers studied 27,911 U.S. adults' data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and analyzed dietary information collected during interviews with the participants over two non-consecutive days. They examined the association between eating different fats, carbohydrates and proteins at breakfast or dinner with participants' rates of heart disease. The analysis found eating a plant-based dinner reduced heart disease risk by ten percent.

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One Major Side Effect of Eating Too Many Eggs, Says Science | Eat This Not That - Eat This, Not That

To eat eggs or to not eat eggs? There are plenty of health benefits tied to the food, however, as is the case with most foods—there are also some potential downsides to watch out for.

But first, let's start with the positives. Egg yolks contain lutein, which is a type of vitamin called a carotenoid. It's also related to beta-carotene, which has antioxidant properties. The vitamin has been shown to help protect eye health by staving off cataracts and improving symptoms associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). (Related: The 7 Healthiest Foods to Eat Right Now)

Another reason not to skip the egg yolk? It's loaded with a bunch of other key nutrients such as B vitamins, selenium, and phosphorous. However, the one thing that may make you walk away from the carton of eggs is the cholesterol content. Each egg contains about 200 milligrams of cholesterol, which is more than what you'd find in a Quarter Pounder with Cheese and Bacon at McDonald's at just 115 milligrams.

Not to mention, eggs also contain saturated fat. Eating foods that are high in cholesterol and saturated fat are known to be risk factors for heart disease. A 2010 study published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology found that people who regularly eat eggs have a nearly 20% higher risk of experiencing cardiovascular problems.

But, studies have also shown that the cholesterol you ingest from dietary sources (such as egg yolk) doesn't necessarily raise cholesterol in the blood. Since your liver produces cholesterol, it adjusts how much it makes (depending on your intake of dietary cholesterol) to help even your levels out. This may be why, for most people, their cholesterol levels don't rise at all when they eat eggs.

One study revealed that, in 70% of people, eggs didn't elevate their cholesterol levels at all. For context, the other 30% had mildly raised total and LDL cholesterol levels. If you eat two eggs two to three times a week, you should be just fine. But if you're eating three or four eggs each day, that's when you may start to experience some issues. Consider speaking with a registered dietitian to find a recommendation that's tailored to you and your body's needs.

For more be sure to check out Side Effects of Giving Up Eggs, According to Dietitians.

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