Hospital and Healthy Food Choices

One might think that healthy snacks and drinks in hospitals would be easy enough to come by.

Would that it were actually so. A walk through some of our community hospitals might easily convince one that the administrators surely leave their health training at the door each morning when they arrive for work. Junk foods, sugary soft drinks, super-salty chips and pretzels — all may be found in abundance, being sold in cafeterias or catering to both staff and visitors.

Some medical centers in fact too much resemble the outside world that provides them with patients whose poor, lifelong dietary habits so often lead to chronic health problems.

In Britain, where hospital vending machines are apparently routinely stocked with unhealthy fare, the British Dental Health Foundation, citing the predictable effects that sugary drinks and foods are having on the nation’s teeth, have actually intervened in the name of public health!

Administrators may be forgiven for wanting to make outside visitors feel comfortable while visiting the sick. But do these administrators not realize that there’s a whole new world of healthy snack fare out there, specifically designed to deliver both taste and wholesome nutrition?

who has long advocated that public institutions in our own country should consider the health effects of junk foods commonly sold in vending machines, heads a company which has made a notable success of marketing hundreds of the most popular and found anywhere. And he’s unashamed to suggest that care-giving institutions like schools and hospitals have a special duty to set the very best example when it comes to nutrition.

If you’re an administrator who thinks maybe it’s time to make a proactive move toward healthier nutrition in your institution, Mr. Trotter would very much like to show you just how easily — and profitably — that can be accomplished.

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