Health and Food

Archive for July, 2009

Health Education and Information
This article discusses the health education and information carried out by occupational health services, based on research conducted among these services 2005th In the center of the investigation were the educational activities of medical research is directed to workers as individuals, work communities and groups and representatives of user organizations. The questionnaire was given to 1132 medical paper, including physicians, nurses, physiotherapists and psychologists employed in 130 units, which provide occupational health services in Finland. Completed questionnaires returned was 635 participants (162 doctors, 342 nurses, 96 physiotherapists and 35 psychologists). Overall response was 58%. Observed were statistically significant differences in educational activities among certain professions, and they were associated with paths in Occupational Health. All the medics of individual workers are the primary users of health education and information. Education is rarely directed at the labor community and representatives of user organizations. However, many open questions related to health and welfare at work are not the responsibility of individual employees. Influence of health education would therefore svrhovitiji if it included those structures that make decisions. In addition, the staff of occupational health should pay attention to the social aspect of learning and to work more with groups and work communities.

Good food and eating habits learned in childhood. Therefore it is important to involve children in development and implementation of a healthy food culture in schools and educational organizations, writes Head of Food Administration Else Molander.
Healthy food in schools may be linked to many different subjects and help to create maddannelse writes Head of Food Administration Else Molander.

Healthy food in schools may be linked to many different subjects and help to create maddannelse writes Head of Food Administration Else Molander.

Half of the children’s daily diet eaten in school and leisure scheme. Children eat in a community where your food has more functions than just to feed and it is important to consider when working with school meals. We must give children a feeling that the school lunch counts, and not just something to be overcome. School meal should be the setting for a great way to be together.
First and foremost, the children feel like the food, it must be welcoming and taking care of the situation by eating in. The goal is that children associate healthy food with fun and togetherness coupled with good flavors.
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Danish families with children to be presented with concrete ideas for nutritious and easy meals so that they manage to integrate healthy eating into a busy weekday.

This is the basic idea behind the new book: “Have a great time – good food for sure” as studio host and former handball player Marianne Florman has developed in collaboration with Birgitte Escherich, who in eight years has worked as a health advisor with Diet Company.

“Too many of us would really like to be with the healthy cooking and healthy lifestyles, but we fall very quickly back to old habits. This book is a relief fund for those who love plain food without too many frills. It is also for those who do not have the energy to spend so much time on food and health, “write the authors in the introduction.

The authors wish to book are inter alia to provide the busy Danish families tips and recipes on how to eat healthy in everyday life without spending too much time and energy on cooking.

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Plan for safety and health, PSS should ensure that everyone working in the square, has a good working environment. The plan may also be a good management tool for construction management.

The developer must always prepare a written plan, if two or more employers concurrently employ more than 10 people in the square. On construction sites with several employers and fewer than 10 persons simultaneously at the site, only a plan for safety and health, whose work is particularly dangerous.

PSS must be available before the site is established and it must be kept updated. PSS over the entire construction period be available for employees and employers on the site.

The developer should not normally prepare a written PSS on small and medium construction sites (less than 10 people simultaneously). It is recommended however that there is always drawn a PSS, except for very small and safe buildings.
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Practical tips to raise my fitness

- I eat at least once a day dark green leafy vegetables rich in magnesium: broccoli, spinach, chard, green salad …

Practical tip: eat a green salad every day systematically (simple and easy). The other green vegetables are added.

- I eat three times a week, dry vegetables: lentils, chickpeas, crushed peas, beans, soybeans

Practical tip: Take to alternate a pilau recipe. Fry an onion, add the lentils and cook 2 minutes more baking. Add water, two glasses of water per glass lentils. Let everything boil, then turn the heat and let simmer for another twenty minutes until water is completely absorbed.

- I sprinkle my prepared daily by 1 to 2 tablespoons of wheat germ and / or sprouted grains (soups, salads, raw vegetables, dishes …).

Practical tip: leave your own cereal seeds in a jar or germ unit. Buy biokiemgranen.

- I use organic or low-fat whole grain and sourdough bread.
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