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September 25, 2006

Finally, Healthy Hospital Food

Have you ever eaten hospital food? I've had three surgeries, two births, and a two-day hospital stay with a sick child. I also worked part time for three years in a hospital while in high school. So I've eaten my share of the crap they pass off as food to their sick patients. Gooey white bread, pasty gravy, soggy canned vegetables, sugary desserts, sweetened canned fruit, deep fried ick, and processed entrees that taste like TV dinners. It has always amazed me that the major purveyors of health care somehow don't seem to make the connection between what you put into your body and how well your body will function.

Finally, hospitals are starting to get it, serving meals that are so healthy they don't have to modify the standard meal plan to meet particular patients' health needs (such as low-sodium or low-fat), and so tasty people come to eat there even when they aren't patients in the hospital. Oregon Health Sciences University is one of the hospitals making major changes, and since they have done so, their food sales have more than doubled.

Makes you wonder about the veracity of the argument that kids in public schools wouldn't eat healthy food if cafeterias served it.

Posted by Becky at September 25, 2006 09:08 AM