Ethics, Health, Innovation

Ethics, Health, Innovation

Vrai Média Magazine

Ethics, Health and Innovation proposes here to raise the health aspects and missions, issues that companies must now take up.

“Let’s live happily while waiting for death”

Pierre Desproges

The company, an alternative to live happily?

Health: a new code of ethics?

The contributions of public health to improving the health of populations are probably one of the major facts of our Western civilization.

If the state cannot promote well-being and good health, it must promote a flexible and normative public health ethic.

The company, a public health actor?

The company builds its societal policy around 7 pillars (ethical, environmental, social, citizen, sustainable development, financial), to establish its approach.

Through the health crisis that we are going through, it is one of the major places in which social ties and contacts are maintained. Thus, it finds herself almost naturally responsible for the morale of its employees and for their health in general.

Of course, the company will build projects around motivated individuals and will seek, through the good moral health of its employees, to maintain this performance.

The company can, under CSR, propose “Health” actions and food could well be one of the most powerful vectors of energy performance.

So why not, gentlemen leaders, combine legal obligation, under CSR, and awareness?

At a time when restaurants and places of conviviality are closed, managers, business leaders, opt for the organization, respecting the rules of distancing Covid, of a breakfast or a snack with high nutritional value. This time will allow employees to meet for a friendly, different moment, after these different periods of confinement. The objectives are to give meaning to food, protect their health and improve performance.

Ethics, Health, Innovation

What if a company had a mission? this is the issue of this article 176 of the law of May 22, 2019 relating to the growth and transformation of companies, known as the Pacte law, which introduces the quality of company with a mission. It allows a company to publicly report on the quality of a company with a mission by specifying its reason for being as well as one or more social and environmental objectives that the company has set itself the task of pursuing as part of its activity.

As soon as the application decree was published in early 2020, the mission-driven company status was first emulated with Danone, CAMIF, MAIF, Nutriset and OpenClassroom in particular. These companies want to bring out a model that contributes to the common good and the collective interest.

A conviction that is even more relevant with the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic sounds the death knell or the final reminder: there can be no question of starting over as before! These companies with missions will invite citizens to question the place and role of companies in our society.

Health will be an area into which mission-based companies will rush. So work on our discernment and bring the common good to the heart of the commitment.

The common good at the heart of the commitment

If there is one sector of activity that should not be guided by profit alone, it is that of health. So let’s be an actor of our health, individually and on a daily basis. To begin with, we suggest that you address food as the subject of the month.

Topic of the month: food, a powerful asset

In the midst of a health crisis, there are no less than 1800 scientific publications indicating the important, preponderant role of food on our immune system. I am surprised that these publications do not have more impact in the media world. It is certain that to advise to eat varied, balanced, as organic as possible, is so banal that it does not make the buzz.

Quality food: performance booster?

The quality of our food directly impacts our body’s immunity mechanisms. Taking care of your diet is an asset for yourself and a powerful energy booster.

Properly assimilating food and transforming it into very small elements, nutrients is the daily and tireless sport to which our body is assigned. These nutrients will boost our energy… They make up the foods that maintain our body. Depending on our food choices, cultivation methods, they will be more or less present in number and quality in the composition of our meals. The extensive farming method impoverishes the soil and the seeds. It is necessary to use “inputs” (pesticides, fungicides…) to fight against insects or “diseases” because the plants are too fragile to defend themselves.

The problems in the use of these types of substances are numerous for the quality of the soil, for insects and also for our health. The residual molecules of the various treatments in our future foods can take the place of good molecules synthesized by our body on receptors and modify their effects, such as disrupting the actions of our hormones. This is only one example but the disturbances in our organism by the environment are multiple. As nature is not always fair, we are not all sensitive in the same way to all these disturbers.

To limit this risk-taking, the more our diet is varied and raw, that is to say the least modified possible, the less we risk a deficiency. The less deficiency we have, the more likely we are to be fit. The better we are, the more we can defend ourselves. A truism that introduces the notion of a virtuous spiral of a diet with high nutritional value or, conversely, a high value in empty calories. The effects will be different with equal energy (calories)!

We are currently in the midst of a health crisis and our immune system is very much in demand to defend us. It is thanks to him that we can be on earth for millennia. It knew how to adapt during our evolution. There is no reason for it not to be effective today! The more the different cells of our immune system have effective tools to defend us, the more they will be able to perform, and vice versa in the event of a deficiency.

Faced with a diet that is too refined, modified (industrial cracking), we find ourselves in shortage of nutrients; as in production chains, when a component is missing, the product does not come out. Changes to the raw food have a deleterious impact on our health, making us more vulnerable. Faced with Covid 19, numerous studies have shown that people with a severe form of Covid 19 were all deficient in vitamin D.

When vitamin D supplementation was implemented, even late, to compensate for the deficiency, recovery was much better.

The nutrient: a base to be found in a healthy, simple, pleasant and varied diet.

Vitamin D is fat-soluble, that is to say present in fatty acids, but not just any. Remember when children ate cod liver oil, it was for vitamin D, for their growth. This vitamin is associated with fish fatty acids rich in omega 3. These omegas are essential for the brain development of children and also play a key role in keeping their brain active for as long as possible. Nature loves win/win combinations.

There is no age to take care of yourself and your loved ones. The impact will always be beneficial and without risk. The wonderful world of food is present daily, learn how to use it well!

Omega 3 intakes (EPA body / DHA mind) help us to have the morale and the desire to do. Companies will be able to consider delivering good quantities of omega 3 and vitamin D to their employees, with a view to a successful recovery!

Animal protein can be a good source of omega 3 especially if the animals were raised in the open air, on pasture, or if their diet is based on foods rich in omega 3, such as flax, alfalfa or l ‘grass. It is a source directly usable by our organisms. There are also omega 3 precursors in vegetable oils such as rapeseed for example.

Bleu Blanc Cœur is an association whose mission is to enable each of us to find food with high nutritional value (HVE). It validates farmers who subscribe to the process and applies its specifications. The products they market will bear the Bleu Blanc Cœur logo. These very varied foods contain more nutrients and omega 3.

True Media’s favorite of the month

Our Health favorite goes to Siga, which has developed an application allowing you to identify ultra-processed foods.

New trend: brainhacking

What if we were hacked! Our cognitive biases are used without our knowledge to mobilize us on social networks and reduce our ability to concentrate: companies in battle for our attention.

Take care of yourself !

Author : Corinne Saudreau, nurse, naturopath, micronutritionist, leads workshops in companies for the optimization of our health capital.

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