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Originally Posted by Zevo
Some fresh fruits and vegetables wouldn't be that costly.
All they get is processed food. In the long run, poor nutrition will be costlier to the health care system.
The way we treat the elderly is sometimes very sad. Surely there are better places to make cuts than this.
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Susan Slade, a licensed practical nurse and AUPE member, contradicts Health Minister Fred Horne’s assertion that the food is nutritionally sound.
“You’re boiling stuff and taking the vitamins and minerals out of it. You’re pre-packaging roast beef for 70 days. How can there be any nutrition left in that?” she asks.
Slade says staff have seen an increase in residents with urinary tract infections and slow wound healing since the meals were introduced as part of a 21-day rotating menu plan in December 2009.
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