Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food

What has happened to our food, how it affects our health, and how we can fix it

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1. Let Food Be thy Medicine & Medicine Be thy Food Megan  Grocki,     Experience  Strategy  Director   #HxR2014          @megangrocki  
3. What has happened to our food?
4. How is our food affecting our health?
5. What can we do about it?
6. has happened to our food? WTF
9. Photo:  Mark  Kegans  for  The  New  York  Times  
10. Photo:www.perdueagribusiness.com  
11. 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
12. Is genetically modified
13. (Bt) Corn Bacillus thuringiensis
14. (Bt) Corn classified as a pesticide by the EPA
16. Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) azodicarbonamide MSG Aspartame Sodium benzoate High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) Sodium nitrite
17. 80% of antibiotics sold in the US are used on farm animals FDA  
18. Pesticides Insecticides Fungicides Herbicides (Glyphosate) - 527 million pound increase since 1996 C.  Benbrook,  2012  
19. What does our food have to do with our health?
20. 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.  
21. American  Diabetes  AssociaHon.     American children born each year since 2000, will develop Type 2 diabetes 1 in 3
23. Source:  Stanford  school  of  medicine   has food allergies 1 in 13
24. 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    
25. Pediatrics,  May  21,  2010   of girls are expected to begin puberty by the age of 7 15%
26. Centers  for  Disease  Control   CANCER is the leading cause of death by disease in children under 15
27. President's  Cancer  Panel  Report   of Americans are expected to get cancer 41%
28. Environmental  Health  Perspec@ves  -­‐  V.106,  N.6  -­‐  Jun98  
29. 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.  
30. Many diseases are diet-related & PREVENTABLE
31. We  are  overfed,  and  undernourished   Food  insecurity      
32. We  are  overfed,  and  undernourished   Food  insecurity      
33. Source:  American  Journal  of  Medicine  (hWp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/244405 Nearly 1 in 3 adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both.
34. Image  Credit:  Wikimedia  Commons  
35. What if we could PREVENT unnecessary illness in the first place?
36. What can we do about this?
37. 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
38. 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
40. Cool things happening with food, media, and technology
42. Produce at convenient stores
43.   Fooducate   Fooducate
46. Social media pressure
50. So much sickness could be prevented by improving nutrition literacy
51. It’s not hopeless – we can all do something
52. Food is “health” care, Medicine is “sick” care
53. Let’s fix food to improve health
54. Thank you! mgrocki@madpow.com @megangrocki