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Let Food Be thy Medicine & Medicine Be thy Food Megan Grocki, Experience Strategy Director #HxR2014 @megangrocki
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What has happened to our food?
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How is our food affecting our health?
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What can we do about it?
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has happened to our food?
WTF
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Photo: Mark Kegans for The New York Times
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Photo:www.perdueagribusiness.com
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Genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
“Organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally.”
-World Health Organization
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Is genetically modified
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(Bt) Corn Bacillus thuringiensis
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(Bt) Corn classified as a
pesticide by the EPA
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Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) azodicarbonamide
MSG
Aspartame
Sodium benzoate High fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
Sodium nitrite
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80% of antibiotics sold in the US are used on farm animals
FDA
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Pesticides Insecticides Fungicides Herbicides (Glyphosate) - 527 million pound increase since 1996
C. Benbrook, 2012
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What does our food have to do with our health?
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We Are Sicker & Die Younger
Than Others In Wealthy Nations Source: NaHonal Research Council and InsHtute of Medicine. U.S. Health in InternaHonal PerspecHve:
Shorter Lives, Poorer Health. Washington, DC: The NaHonal Academies Press, 2013.
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American Diabetes AssociaHon.
American children born each year since 2000, will develop Type 2 diabetes
1 in 3
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Source: Stanford school of medicine
has food allergies
1 in 13
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2,615 4,135
9,537
1998-2000 2001-2003 2004-2006
Food allergy related hospitalizations for children under 18
Center for Disease Control. Na2onal Health Interview Survey
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Pediatrics, May 21, 2010
of girls are expected to begin puberty by the age of 7
15%
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Centers for Disease Control
CANCER is the leading cause of death by disease
in children under 15
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President's Cancer Panel Report
of Americans are expected to get cancer
41%
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Environmental Health Perspec@ves -‐ V.106, N.6 -‐ Jun98
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We spend more on health care and
disease management than any other country on the
planet.
Source: NaHonal Research Council and InsHtute of Medicine. U.S. Health in InternaHonal PerspecHve: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health. Washington, DC: The NaHonal Academies Press, 2013.
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Many diseases are diet-related & PREVENTABLE
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We are overfed, and undernourished
Food insecurity
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We are overfed, and undernourished
Food insecurity
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Source: American Journal of Medicine (hWp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24440543)
Nearly 1 in 3 adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both.
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Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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What if we could PREVENT unnecessary illness in the first place?
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What can we do about this?
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We as individuals can … Cut Artificial Colors Count chemicals, not calories Eat Less Fake Food Seek out yummy ways to consume superfoods Learn more about GMOs and support labeling Support producers who don’t use antibiotics, or pesticides
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We as healthcare professionals can … Consider nutrition in our content Build awareness around the food/health connection Integrate nutrition information into our interfaces Getting the facts and doing research is key – study food consumption patterns alongside other work
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Cool things happening with food, media, and
technology
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Produce at convenient stores
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Fooducate
Fooducate
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Social media pressure
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So much sickness could be prevented by improving nutrition literacy
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It’s not hopeless – we can all do something
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Food is “health” care, Medicine is “sick” care
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Let’s fix food to improve health