MyFoodMyHealth launches Web site to help manage meals, wellness
NEW YORK MyFoodMyHealth on Tuesday launched myfoodmyhealth.com, a food and wellness Web site that provides healthy meal plans, flavorful recipes and online tools designed especially for individuals and families who have multiple health conditions or allergies.
The new site enables users to enter health concerns—diabetes, high cholesterol or wheat allergy, for example—then uses a proprietary algorithm to find recipes and create meal plans that address all of the special dietary requirements.
“Life becomes significantly more complicated if you are one of the millions of people who must deal with dietary restrictions due to health conditions,” said Caroline Nation, founder of MyFoodMyHealth. “We designed our website to simplify that process and to shift the focus from what you can't eat to what you can eat and enjoy.”
The MyFoodMyHealth website provides information and online tools, including:
• A weekly online meal planner that automatically generates menus tailored for a family’s health and dietary needs;
• weekly shopping lists, pantry basics and online shopping resources; and
• health and nutritional information for specific health conditions.
“Over the last 30 years, I have learned about the tremendous power of food to influence our emotional and physical health, both from personal experience and from studying nutritional science,” said Susan Lord, chief medical advisor for MyFoodMyHealth. “This web site is designed to support healthy eating within the context of our busy lives. It provides the information you need to easily adopt new menus that not only address your specific health concerns, but are so delicious you will want to eat this way.”
At launch, the MyFoodMyHealth service supports multiple health conditions, including acne, arthritis, asthma, candidiasis, celiac, depression, diabetes, eczema, fatigue, gout, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, hypothyroid, osteoporosis, pre- and post-chemotherapy and radiation, psoriasis, recently quit drinking, recently quit smoking, and stress. The service also takes into consideration food allergies so families can share meals together safely.
The unique algorithm employed by MyFoodMyHealth can eliminate recipes with common food allergens including almonds, chicken, chili pepper, corn, crab, eggs, gluten, milk, oats, peanuts, sesame seed/oil, shrimp, soy, spinach, strawberries, tomatoes and wheat. Health information and sample recipes are available at no charge on MyFoodMyHealth and the recipe and meal planning service is available by subscription.