Sunday, September 19, 2010

The Link Between Poverty, Obesity and Diabetes


I love this excellent idea! "Learn a recipe using inexpensive, fresh, whole food to create a delicious meal and teach that recipe to three people. They, in turn, could teach three more people."



How can a country be great when its people are slowly dying? It all seems to be such an insidious trap - cheap satisfying calories with limited nutrition as the ONLY choice - with real food miles away!

So, we have to get the food to the people who need to make these better choices; that means that methods must be discovered and implemented, such as permits for vegetable catering trucks connected to neighborhoods by Twitter and other networked announcement schemes, and of course perhaps most immediately by delivering healthy food through existing school infrastructures.



The facts that Hyman delineates show that our society has made a colossal mistake in feeding its citizens. This must be remedied if we are to survive as a great society.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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