Hospitals should be required to serve healthy, non GMO, minimally processed and organic food. The food served to patients and families is not high quality and hospitals should be a place to heal but the food they serve is poor quality and high in starch, carbs and highly processed foods. Maybe give farmers a tax break if they sell their non GMO crops/meat/produce to hospitals? Hospitals should be required to eliminate all highly processed snacks and meats. Insurance companies should automatically cover a hospital stay with the insanely high premiums we pay. The hospital serves poor quality food that actually can slow down healing. I’ve worked in healthcare for 12 years and the food quality is poor and constantly complained about. Hospitals should be required to have nutritionists or dieticians involved in every care plan and covered by insurance.
I agree wholeheartedly. My grandfather is diabetic and every time he has to stay for something, he gets fed essentially pure sugar with a the carbs. We claim to use hospitals to heal, yet feed sick patients poison. Make it make sense.
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Yes my father in law was recently in the hospital. He is diabetic. The diabetic choices included mac n cheese, pudding and ice cream. I said to him, that’s not at all a diabetic meal.
The complete sick care system needs to be completely overhauled. Nutrition classes need to be valued for med and nursing students. Re-education and re-training.
So true. Hospital food is almost impossible. Both my husband and I experienced this. He didn’t even eat most of the time and lost a lot of weight. I could only eat omelets and cottage cheese. Food was overcooked to the point meat was hard as a rock and vegetables were mush. Tube “foods” are highly toxic, consisting of GMO ingredients, high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin (destroys intestinal flora) and other nasty ingredients. Made my husband very, very sick. We had to buy and pay for Real Food Blends, and when we almost ran out because of Christmas rush delaying orders, they put him back on their poisons without my permission and behind my back, and he was sick as a dog for three days. Hospitalization can actually be used to teach people to eat right, but they do the absolute opposite.
Hospitals should be providing Functional Formularies and Real Food Blends, not the trash that the pharmaceutical companies manufacture, which is calculated to keep people sick so they’ll remain customers.
You mean like what Michelle Obama did for healthier school lunches for children?
I completely agree with you! Hospitals should absolutely be focused on providing nutritious, healing foods to patients, especially considering the role diet plays in recovery. Offering non-GMO, minimally processed, and organic options would likely lead to better health outcomes, as these foods are typically lower in harmful additives and preservatives that can have negative effects on the body, particularly when it’s already in a weakened state.
It’s frustrating to hear that food quality is consistently poor in healthcare settings, and it makes sense that with the high costs of hospital stays, insurance should cover something as vital as proper nutrition as part of the overall treatment. Better food means better health—plain and simple.