A Nutrition Revolution

by Kahn, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781463424718
• ISBN10: 146342471X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-26
• Publisher: Authorhouse

Excerpts

This book is designed to light the way and open more doors in the field of nutrition so we can all heal. Our society is preyed upon by the food, drug and diet industries. We are becoming fatter, sicker, and more medicated. Our quality of life is deteriorating. We are in a cycle of poor health, decreasing education levels and a boom-to-bust economy. This is a snowball of failure that is only getting bigger — continually gaining momentum — and we must intervene to stop it. We need the right tool to fix these problems. That tool is nutrition. Most people in this country eat poorly, feel sick and believe drugs or diets can fix their problems. But the masses are only responding to what they are told over and over. On television, there are back-to-back commercials for fast and junk food, diet food, and drugs for everything a poor diet causes. Have you ever tried yourself — or tried to get a child — to eat healthy regularly? If you are like most people, you probably found this to be a challenge. There are many reasons for that and advertising is a big one. Children see an average of 10,000 junk food commercials a year. If parents spend every meal with their child, that would amount to one-tenth of what television commercials expose them to. Junk food can cause fatigue. Many people today consume junk food, then large energy drinks loaded with sugar, caffeine, and other stimulating substances for a quick pick-me-up, but these only add to the problem and further the chemical imbalances already going on inside the body. Basically, all of the Happy Meals, fries, sodas, flaming hot chips, energy drinks and caramel macchiatos have caught up with us. Diets and drugs are not working, and our bodies are crumbling under the pressure. We don't need another wonder diet, energy drink or medication. What we need is to fix the original problem — poor diet. Flunking is expensive. Every year, in the U.S., a lot of money is funneled into ventures of failure like junk and diet foods, prescription drugs, healthcare (or, more properly named, "sick care") and societal safety nets like welfare, prison, and war. Spending on Failure: • Fast-food: $200 billion • Diets: $50 billion • Drugs: $300 billion • Healthcare: $2 trillion • Prison: $200 billion • Welfare: $500 billion • War: $125 billion average since 2002 That is almost three and a half trillion dollars spent on failing. We spend a fraction of this amount on what we know leads to success: education. One of the arguments used against education is that there is not enough money. Yes, there is money; it just needs to be reinvested more wisely. Reinvesting into more effective ventures like education (specifically nutrition education) will create another snowball effect — but a positive one, because nutrition education leads to better health, which leads to improvements in learning and education; higher education levels lead to more successful and productive people; more productive people paying into the system will lead to greater revenue and taxes as opposed to more sick, less educated people taking money out of the system via welfare, prison, and other taxpayer-supported safety nets. Many people across the globe fight wars for food and security. Seeds and classrooms are cheaper than bombs.