I’m all for hospitals showing patients how to eat healthy, but a farmer’s market right on the premises? That’s the case for some hospitals. One CNN article says that “The concept of farmers markets at hospitals is not entirely new, but it has started to spread — to places like Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, University of California San Francisco Medical Center in California, and the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.”

I used to work in a hospital kitchen, and it was interesting to cook our meals and talk to the patients and staff about what we had made and why. I suppose having a farmer’s market takes that a step further, where the hospital ends up showing patients what kind of foods to buy.

What do you think? Would you attend a farmer’s market at your local hospital? Would it matter if you were a patient there or not?

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Yesterday I posted about how the internet has changed the way we look into health and medical affairs. Today is going to be similar. A lot of people want to live healthier and just don’t know how to start. They see programs on television trying to promote a healthier lifestyle but most of the time it’s infomercial’s attempting to market a diet pill, a colon cleansing program or the next great exercise machine. They never really show you how to start living more healthy.

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