Health & Green Life

Our gut plays a much more crucial role than we would imagine. From breaking down the food and converting it into nutrients, balancing hormones, removing toxins to mental health, our gut almost defines our overall health and not just digestion. Many researchers are studying the gut microbiota nowadays. There is a wide range of bacteria – almost 40 trillion – that resides in our body, mostly in gut and provide different health benefits to us by taking care of important body functions. Unhealthy gut microbiome, on the other hand, could cause inflammation and change the way our immune system works; it also makes us susceptible to various diseases like diabetes, cancer, depression, and also autoimmune diseases like arthritis. (Also read: 5 tips to keep your gut healthy this monsoon)

What we are eating now can make a huge difference in our probability of getting certain diseases later in our life.

Mission Ventures, the UK-based accelerator operator, has launched a program at supporting nascent food firms offering better-for-you-products.

The Good Food Program (GFP) will support ten healthier-option challenger brands with the intention of helping them reach supermarket shelves at an affordable price point.

Mission Ventures is seeking applications from UK or EU companies that have created, or that have the potential to develop, products healthier than existing options.

The accelerator was established by three entrepreneurs from the UK food sector: Plum Baby co-founder Paddy Willis; John Stapleton, co-founder of New Covent Garden Soup and Little Dish; and Nigel Parrott, co-founder of Ape Snacks.

Mission Ventures has backed SME food businesses in its own right, including via a previous program obesity at tackling childhood through supporting fledgling healthier food firms. The accelerator also teamed up with UK bakery major Warburtons in July 2020

“Healthy eating is top of mind for the workforce right now as they are more and more conscious of the impact of their workstyle on their overall health and wellbeing. Employees now hold their employers as responsible and companies are looking at ways to help staff fulfill their nutritional goals – whether in the office or working remotely,” says Pradere.

The rise in popularity of home delivery apps and subscription services such as Hello Fresh highlight that convenience rates highly with time-poor workers, traditionally health-conscious women and younger people.

US firm Freshly has seen a corresponding increase in demand from employers who want to send nutritious, ready-made meals to their remote workforce, while digital canteens – as championed by Brussels-based food-tech company Foodiz – are on the rise.

Employees of firms who subscribe to these services use an app to order lunches daily from a menu of fresh, healthy choices;

With Qatar soon to take the center stage of world sports, the World Health Organization and the Qatar Ministry of Public Health are driving forward efforts to help make this year’s celebration of the “world’s game – football” a beacon for health and safety, and a launchpad for sharing lessons with major sporting events in the future.

Set to be held in Doha from 20 November to 18 December, the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ is a unique platform for us to promote health across the world and to communicate that sport and health go together. They are intertwined, and together they play out in a celebration of joy, well-being, and solidarity for billions of people around the world.

Our partnership on Sport For Health has two main objectives: first, to work with key partners to help make the 2022 FIFA World Cup – the first to be held in