Bkean Foundation for Abatement of Poverty in Africa
6134 N Washtenaw Ave
Chicago Illinois
60659

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1711723360/l6bc8outfywzdqz80imq.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> The pilot project will commence in the City of Chicago, Illinois, and is structured to unfold in three distinct phases. Phase (1): Facility SetupThis phase involves identifying and renovating suitable properties to serve as kitchen facilities for both training and production of Frozen Foods and Dry Foods. Limited activities will initially continue with existing kitchen facilities to kickstart the production of Frozen Foods. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1711723072/v7wbogi1kwtznhbfr5h6.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> Phase (2): Marketing CampaignAn aggressive awareness campaign will be launched to promote the benefits of Healthy Foods (Food is Medicine) for Americans. The campaign will stress the importance of Americans transitioning to these Healthy Foods in both production and consumption. Additionally, it will underscore the advantages when combined with other healthy lifestyle practices such as daily exercise routines, walking, chair yoga, or any other simple exercises, and potentially intermittent fasting. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1712508044/kmuytzewlvgpyemp7jyv.png" style="width:581px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center" /> Phase (3): Collaboration with Social ServicesIn this phase, collaboration with social services will involve interviewing the first pioneer group of youth, which includes disadvantaged Americans such as those who are unemployed, single mothers, or formerly incarcerated, for the Clean Healthy Food Incubator Program. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1711723114/c7pr3tzm7zq4cz7bjffr.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;max-width:100%;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit" /> According to available data, US healthcare spending grew by 4.1 percent in 2022, reaching $4.5 trillion or $13,493 per person. It is estimated that healthcare spending will reach 20.1% of GDP in 2025. Despite such staggering amounts spent on healthcare, Americans do not seem to be better at it. Consider this health report on obesity: Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health predict that if the steady increase in overweight and obesity among Americans continues through 2030, 86.3 percent of adults will be overweight or obese. The use of obesity here as an example to highlight the current health state of affairs is deliberate, as it properly captures the essence of this discussion: Americans are not eating healthily. What are the experts saying? "Incorporating targeted food and nutrition strategies into healthcare on a national level will improve health and quality of life, reduce hospital workload, and cut healthcare costs," according to experts studying Food is Medicine (FIM) efforts. The health and economic benefits of this approach are detailed in a report from researchers at the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1712428081/qaf8r2pm70lfv3mztnqh.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center" /> The Food is Medicine Case Study quantifies the potential health and economic benefits of FIM efforts, referring to food-based nutrition interventions integrated into the healthcare system to treat or prevent chronic diet-related diseases. This approach has shown promise in recent years for not only boosting nutrition and improving health outcomes but also for reducing food insecurity and increasing health equity. According to research data presented in the report, national implementation of Medically Tailored Meals (MTMs) in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance for patients with both a diet-related condition and limited ability to perform activities of daily living could avert approximately 1.6 million hospitalizations and result in an estimated net savings of $13.6 billion in healthcare costs in the first year alone, after accounting for implementation costs. Consequent to these reports, BKEAN has created an incubator program that will establish and support bakeries/restaurants that do not make use of wheat but alternative products using Bkean Indigent Youth Organically Grown and Milled Gluten and Gliadin-Free, Single Ingredient, Resistant Starch Flours. These products include healthy pasta, spaghetti, bread, frozen foods (including frozen waffles, pancakes, and pie/pizza dough), cookies, crackers, and more. Additionally, the program will propagate awareness among the populace to consume these products made from Resistant Starch Flours for improved and sustained good health and weight loss, in conjunction with daily exercise and intermittent fasting. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1712428104/kjstlkphupe2tm7ke00u.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center" /> The use of healthy ingredients like grass-fed A2 cow butter, cheese, and milk, pasture-raised chicken and eggs, and healthy oils such as virgin olive oil and virgin coconut oil is emphasized. Sugars must be extracts from cane, coconut, or dates, or sugar substitutes like monk fruit, allulose, or erythritol. Beyond the health benefits that will save billions of dollars, BKEAN will utilize the bakery to run an Incubator program. The target audience is economically disadvantaged youths, single mothers, or young women living prison life in America. Through our franchise business model, BKEAN shall train them on how to utilize these aforementioned organic food items to bake or prepare healthy food for Americans. This will result in a win-win enterprise, improving the health of Americans while cutting the cost of investment into health matters each year, and giving disadvantaged Americans an opportunity to own a business with its attendant benefits. <a href="https://bkean.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank"><< Go back to BKEAN homepage</a>

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Last name, Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting our cause. This donation greatly helps our mission. If you would like to contribute further, contact us to become a volunteer, or talk to your friends about our cause! Ngozi Nwauwa ngozi@bkean.org

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<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1711723360/l6bc8outfywzdqz80imq.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" /> The pilot project will commence in the City of Chicago, Illinois, and is structured to unfold in three distinct phases. Phase (1): Facility SetupThis phase involves identifying and renovating suitable properties to serve as kitchen facilities for both training and production of Frozen Foods and Dry Foods. Limited activities will initially continue with existing kitchen facilities to kickstart the production of Frozen Foods. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1711723072/v7wbogi1kwtznhbfr5h6.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" /> Phase (2): Marketing CampaignAn aggressive awareness campaign will be launched to promote the benefits of Healthy Foods (Food is Medicine) for Americans. The campaign will stress the importance of Americans transitioning to these Healthy Foods in both production and consumption. Additionally, it will underscore the advantages when combined with other healthy lifestyle practices such as daily exercise routines, walking, chair yoga, or any other simple exercises, and potentially intermittent fasting. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1712508044/kmuytzewlvgpyemp7jyv.png" style="width:581px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;max-width:100%" /> Phase (3): Collaboration with Social ServicesIn this phase, collaboration with social services will involve interviewing the first pioneer group of youth, which includes disadvantaged Americans such as those who are unemployed, single mothers, or formerly incarcerated, for the Clean Healthy Food Incubator Program. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1711723114/c7pr3tzm7zq4cz7bjffr.png" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;position:relative;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" /> According to available data, US healthcare spending grew by 4.1 percent in 2022, reaching $4.5 trillion or $13,493 per person. It is estimated that healthcare spending will reach 20.1% of GDP in 2025. Despite such staggering amounts spent on healthcare, Americans do not seem to be better at it. Consider this health report on obesity: Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health predict that if the steady increase in overweight and obesity among Americans continues through 2030, 86.3 percent of adults will be overweight or obese. The use of obesity here as an example to highlight the current health state of affairs is deliberate, as it properly captures the essence of this discussion: Americans are not eating healthily. What are the experts saying? "Incorporating targeted food and nutrition strategies into healthcare on a national level will improve health and quality of life, reduce hospital workload, and cut healthcare costs," according to experts studying Food is Medicine (FIM) efforts. The health and economic benefits of this approach are detailed in a report from researchers at the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1712428081/qaf8r2pm70lfv3mztnqh.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;max-width:100%" /> The Food is Medicine Case Study quantifies the potential health and economic benefits of FIM efforts, referring to food-based nutrition interventions integrated into the healthcare system to treat or prevent chronic diet-related diseases. This approach has shown promise in recent years for not only boosting nutrition and improving health outcomes but also for reducing food insecurity and increasing health equity. According to research data presented in the report, national implementation of Medically Tailored Meals (MTMs) in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance for patients with both a diet-related condition and limited ability to perform activities of daily living could avert approximately 1.6 million hospitalizations and result in an estimated net savings of $13.6 billion in healthcare costs in the first year alone, after accounting for implementation costs. Consequent to these reports, BKEAN has created an incubator program that will establish and support bakeries/restaurants that do not make use of wheat but alternative products using Bkean Indigent Youth Organically Grown and Milled Gluten and Gliadin-Free, Single Ingredient, Resistant Starch Flours. These products include healthy pasta, spaghetti, bread, frozen foods (including frozen waffles, pancakes, and pie/pizza dough), cookies, crackers, and more. Additionally, the program will propagate awareness among the populace to consume these products made from Resistant Starch Flours for improved and sustained good health and weight loss, in conjunction with daily exercise and intermittent fasting. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1712428104/kjstlkphupe2tm7ke00u.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;max-width:100%" /> The use of healthy ingredients like grass-fed A2 cow butter, cheese, and milk, pasture-raised chicken and eggs, and healthy oils such as virgin olive oil and virgin coconut oil is emphasized. Sugars must be extracts from cane, coconut, or dates, or sugar substitutes like monk fruit, allulose, or erythritol. Beyond the health benefits that will save billions of dollars, BKEAN will utilize the bakery to run an Incubator program. The target audience is economically disadvantaged youths, single mothers, or young women living prison life in America. Through our franchise business model, BKEAN shall train them on how to utilize these aforementioned organic food items to bake or prepare healthy food for Americans. This will result in a win-win enterprise, improving the health of Americans while cutting the cost of investment into health matters each year, and giving disadvantaged Americans an opportunity to own a business with its attendant benefits. <a href="https://bkean.org/" target="_blank">&lt;&lt; Go back to BKEAN homepage</a>

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