A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. The disease formerly known as adult-onset diabetes has had to be renamed Type II diabetes since it now occurs so frequently in children. Three of every five Americans are overweight one of every five is obese. “According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Imagine it: Every meal would connect us to the joy of living and the wonder of nature. But we can change the way we make and get our food so that it becomes food again-something that feeds our bodies and our souls. Most people don’t want to learn to garden or hunt. I don’t want to have to forage every meal. We would no longer need any reminding that we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and that what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. We would not need to go hunting for our connection to our food and the web of life that produces it. If that was the reality, then every meal would have the potential to be a perfect meal. Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple things: What it is we’re eating. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. “Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |