September 2022 - Page 4 of 4 - Health & Green Life

Creating a legacy of sport for health

September 6, 2022

Health Food

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

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Your Favorite Snacks May Be Causing You to Feel Anxious or Depressed

September 5, 2022

Health Food

A woman eating a donut. — New research finds that adults who eat a diet high in ultra-processed foods are likely to report feeling mild depression and anxiety more often than those who eat less of it. Ana Luz Crespi/Stocksy

Researchers have found that foods like snack foods and soft drinks are linked to worse mental health.
People who ate more of these foods reported having mild depression more often.
They also reported more days of anxiety and being mentally unhealthy.
This could be because these foods are low in nutrients and high in sugar, researchers say.
Experts advise that it’s a good idea to replace ultra-processed foods with whole foods.

If you are fond of sugary drinks, processed meats, or other snack foods, you may want to re-evaluate your food choices, according to scientists at Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University.

Their research found that eating large amounts of

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Ultra-Processed Food Intake Linked to Mental Health Symptoms – Consumer Health News

September 2, 2022

Health Food

TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Individuals reporting higher intakes of ultra-processed food (UPF) are significantly more likely to report worse mental health symptoms, according to a study published online July 28 in Public Health Nutrition.

Eric M. Hecht, MD, Ph.D., from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and colleagues assessed whether individuals who consume higher amounts of UPF have more adverse mental health symptoms. The analysis included data from 10,359 adult participants in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2007 to 2012).

The researchers found that individuals with the highest level of UPF consumption were significantly more likely to report at least mild depression (odds ratio, 1.81), more mentally unhealthy days per month (risk ratio, 1.22), and more anxious days per month (risk ratio, 1.19). Similarly, those with the highest UPF consumption were significantly less likely to

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Four common questions to ask about organic food

September 1, 2022

Health Food

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Organic can be a loaded term. “There’s a lot of confusion about what it means,” says Kathryn MacLean, a dietitian with UC Davis Health Food and Nutrition Services in California.

in a nationally representative Consumer Reports survey of 2,224 US adults in April42 percent said they thought organic food was more nutritious, and 66 percent thought it was better at limiting their exposure to pesticides or fertilizers.

What’s true? The rules for using the “USDA Organic” seal on food include no use of most synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Those that are allowed are tightly regulated, are permitted only when other methods have failed and must be shown to be safe for people. Organic food is also grown without genetically modified organisms or the ionizing irradiation sometimes used for pest control.

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