Food for thought in nursing home diet

“Food is your medicine, hence let medicine be your food” — Hippocrates 400BC.

First we had the beef-burger scandal where corners were cut by substituting horsemeat to compete price-wise and retain profits – forgetting they had also cut the nutritional value of their products.

Now, we have hospitals and nursing homes nationwide cutting corners by slashing €9m from food costs over the past two years, supplying patients with a junk food diet.