Creamy Vegan Egg Salad Party Sandwiches

These Creamy Vegan Egg Salad Party Sandwiches look and taste so much like the real deal, no one will ever notice if you just drop them on the table without saying a word…

Egg Salad Sandwiches. They are such a great classic at parties, are they not? I mean, who doesn’t LOVE egg salad sandwiches? Unfortunately, for us vegans, they are yet another one of those things that are totally off limits. But, vegans rejoice, there actually exists a more than decent vegan option! This tofu version tastes and looks so much like the real deal, it’s almost scary. I actually made those to take to a party last week and they were a total hit!

Now, I like my egg salad on the creamy side, especially when making party sandwiches — it just holds so much better! — but if you preferred your egg salad to be a little bit less creamy and have a little bit more chunks in it, you could totally play with the ratio of creamed to chopped tofu. I process about half the tofu and keep the other half as chunks, but you could totally do 1/3 creamed 2/3 chunks, for instance. Just play with it until you find your own optimal balance.

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How Online Grocery Delivery Could Help Alleviate Food Deserts

Delivery service could make it easier to access fresh, healthy food in these areas, a study finds. It lends support to a pilot program that lets people pay for these groceries with food stamps.

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Healthy Festive Vegan Chocolate Fudge

Not only is this Festive Vegan Chocolate Fudge super creamy, velvety smooth and totally delicious, but it also happens to be truly healthy and completely guilt-free!

Can you think of a better, prettier treat to put on the table this Christmas? Or any other occasion, for that matter. Super easy to make, this healthy vegan chocolate fudge only requires 4 simple ingredients and about 20 minutes of your time to make. And no special equipment either.

This fudge is perfect in every single way: it tastes absolutely amazing, has the silkiest, fudgiest texture, it’s super easy – and quick – to make, cuts super clean into perfect little squares and best of all, stays firm at room temperature. This means it won’t start to melt on you as soon as you take it out of the fridge, like many other healthy fudge recipes out there… In fact, this one is actually MUCH better at room temperature so it’s best that you take it out of the fridge a couple of hours before you serve it!

And that, makes it even more perfect, because it’ll make it that much harder for you to just grab a piece right out of the fridge every now and then, and eventually realize that you’ve gone through the entire batch before it even had a chance to make it to the party…

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More than 1 in 3 low- and middle-income countries face both extremes of malnutrition

Being undernourished or overweight are no longer separate public health issues. A new article details how more than one in three low- and middle-income countries face both extremes of malnutrition -- a reality driven by the modern food system.

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Teens With ADHD More Likely To Get Hooked On Nicotine, Research Shows

Vaping use among high school students is rising and that's likely driving an increase in nicotine use. Teenagers who may be more likely to get hooked are those with ADHD.

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Orion Health CMO Dr. Chris Hobson discusses HIE’s past, present, future

Dr. Chris Hobson

Orion Health has been the Health Information Exchange (HIE) business around the world for more than 15 years. In this podcast, Chief Medical Officer Chris Hobson and I discuss the past, present and future of health IT.

Topics include:

• (0:12) There are a lot of buzzwords in health IT: interoperability, population health, precision medicine. What is their relevance?
• (3:07) What new buzzwords will we encounter as we head into the new decade?
• (8:07) Health Information Exchanges have been around for 15 years. Have they succeeded? How will they evolve?
• (12:05) You operate around the world. What are some differences and similarities you see with the US system? What can we learn from abroad?
• (17:00) How do the priorities of payers and providers differ?
• (20:16) What are the implications of new legislation focusing on interoperability? TEFCA? 21st Century Cures?

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Boston Globe quotes David Williams re:Partners name change

Partners HealthCare is changing its name to Mass General Brigham, saying goodbye to a name loved by exactly no one. The Boston Globe quoted David Williams about the change in In major rebranding, Partners HealthCare changes name to Mass General Brigham

David E. Williams, president of the consulting firm Health Business Group, said Partners’ hospitals might be able to rally around a new common name.

“It won’t change anything by itself, changing the names,” he said. “But if it’s part of trying to do an integration, it might have meaning.”

But he also questioned whether the initiative will be worth the costs.

“If it gets to the point where a nonprofit is contemplating $100 million to change its name, it tells you something is wrong. That’s a fairly wasteful exercise,” he said.

David also explored the topic in more detail on the Health Business Blog.

 

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Warren Doubled Down On 'Medicare For All' As Voters Had Second Thoughts

The Massachusetts senator has pushed corporate regulation and fighting corruption as campaign centerpieces since early on. So how did "Medicare for All" come to define her platform while support slid?

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25 Vegan Christmas Baking & Dessert Recipes

A roundup of 25 Vegan Christmas Baking and Dessert Recipes to help you keep things healthier and cruelty-free Holiday Season!

I just woke up to realize that Christmas is only 2 weeks away! My first Christmas as a vegan, too… To this day, I have no idea what I am going to put on the menu. But to be honest, my focus this year has been more on getting ready to leave for my 3-month trip to Costa Rica, right after the Holidays. So I’m afraid that my Christmas cooking has been relegated to 2nd rank.

But Christmas still has to happen… and so does vegan Christmas cooking. The one thing that is going to be the biggest challenge for me, I think, is the baking and dessert part of the menu. While there are tons of recipes for vegan cakes and cookies and pies and cupcakes and bars of all kinds out there to inspire me, I find only a minority are actually somewhat healthy. Vegan definitely doesn’t necessarily always rhyme with healthy. Lots of those recipes call for all kinds of refined sugars and unhealthy fats…

Still, I managed to find quite a few healthier vegan sweet treat options that inspired me — some of them being my own, I confess — and I thought I would bunch them up in a neat little roundup and share them with you.

Hopefully you’ll manage to find one or two that will inspire you, as well!

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Supreme Court Hears Another Obamacare Case, With A Twist

The justices seemed sympathetic to $12 billion in insurance firms' claims. The Affordable Care Act promised to partially reimburse insurers if they lost money due to peoples' preexisting conditions.

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