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		<title>First Do No Harm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospital food is a popular butt of jokes, right alongside airplane food and other institutionally-prepared meals. The food is usually stale and stinky, and anything that actually tastes good on the tray is usually pre-packaged and pre-prepared off-site. But why &#8230; <a href="http://www.socialmedical.com/2010/06/first-do-no-harm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmedical.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/100614_hospital.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-273" title="100614_hospital" src="http://www.socialmedical.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/100614_hospital-300x250.jpg" alt="" width="164" height="136" /></a>Hospital food is a popular butt of jokes, right alongside airplane food and other institutionally-prepared meals. The food is usually stale and stinky, and anything that actually tastes good on the tray is usually pre-packaged and pre-prepared off-site. But why shouldn’t hospitals—a place of healing—be a location for delicious, healthful food that will speed recovery?</p>
<p>An NGO called Health Care Without Harm, based in the U.S. in Arlington, Virginia, is working on doing exactly that.</p>
<p>Health Care Without Harm has sponsored meals in Baltimore hospitals. The advocacy group also continues to work with hospitals to remove  meat from antibiotic-treated livestock from their menus, as well as eliminate deep-friend foods and foods with trans fats and high-fructose corn syrup.</p>
<p>At Health Care Without Harm’s urging, St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota and Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermiston, Oregon now offer grass-fed beef (which contains less overall fat than grain-fed beef). And more than 250 hospitals in the U.S. have signed Health Care Without Harm’s pledge to serve more fresh fruits and vegetables (organic and local when possible), reduce processed foods and foods containing trans fats, and offer hormone-free milk.</p>
<p>Health Care Without Harm also works on reducing emissions from incinerated medical waste, keeping mercury out of hospital building supplies, and lowering use of polluting hospital practices.</p>
<p>So fear not: soon enough, hospitals may be where you go to get tasty, quality meals that are good for your body <em>and</em> your tastebuds.</p>
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