Disgusting Photos of Hospital Food Used to Demand Change

Hospitals are meant to be places of healing, but sometimes just even looking at the food can make you sicker.

It’s time for every hospital—no matter where they are situated, or what communities they serve—to step up and understand that good food can indeed be medicine, and that bad food can impact much more than just your appetite.

via TreeHugger.

UK watchdog: Coke’s Vitaminwater claims misleading

You’ve probably seen them starting to be sold in Singapore and the region, so this is good to know:

Britain’s ad regulator says Vitaminwater has too much sugar to be accurately described as nutritious and has ordered owner Coca-Cola to stop running advertisements carrying the claim.

The Advertising Standards Authority says Coca-Cola broke ad rules when it described its popular line of flavored water products as “delicious and nutritious,” explaining that consumers wouldn’t expect a drink marketed as nutritious to have between four and five teaspoons of added sugar.

via The Associated Press.

Britain needs $15 billion green bank

What about an Asian green bank? Even more far fetched?

A “green bank” funded by new consumer levies; the sale of emissions permits to industry; and institutional and retail interest in new investment products will help plug the gap, according to the Green Investment Bank Commission.

Read more at Reuters.

Refurbished supermarket trolley chair

Remember when you were young enough to clamour for your mom to push you around in the supermarket trolley?

You can relive those childhood heydays. A UK company called reestore does “contemporary eco designs” out of old everyday items like supermarket trolleys. These trolleys are usually disposed off once their wheels become misaligned, and reestore makes them functional again – into a chair.

Not only that, they’ve even named it – Annie. She’s available for sale online, so you can go to their site to click and add a trolley to your trolley (for 550 pounds).