(CHCC) â In March, the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.- Environmental Health Disease Prevention conducted sanitary inspections at retail, eating and drinking establishments.
CHCC-EHDP also launched inspections for the BIBA Healthy Restaurant Program last month. CHCC, in partnership with the CNMI Nutrition Council, manages the Biba Healthy Restaurant Program. The program aims to increase the availability of clearly marked, nutritious food at local restaurants. The programâs mission is to make the healthy choice the easy choice at CNMI restaurants. Nutrition guidelines have been developed for restaurants and caterers to ensure healthy choices are available for CNMI families when eating outside the home.
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The Be-Hive Deli & Market italian sandwichPhoto: Daniel Meigs
Sorry, good ol’ boys, but it’s time to stop laughing at vegans. A plant-based diet is no longer the tree-hugging, granola-crunching butt of the joke. Veganism is a lifestyle embraced by millions lifestyle website WTVOX estimates that there are roughly 78 million vegans worldwide and numbers are on the rise. According to The Vegan Society, “retail sales of plant-based meat grew 31 percent, while total U.S. retail meat sales grew just 5 percent” between 2017 and 2019, and in recent years the “consumption of plant milk increased by 61 percent while consumption of cow’s milk decreased by 22 percent.”