Diet-related chronic disease is the perennial number one killer in the United States, responsible for more deaths than Covid-19 even at the pandemic’s peak. Yet we cannot manage to define this as a “crisis”. In fact, our response is lame: for decades we’ve been telling people to “eat better”, a strategy that hasn’t worked, and never will.
It cannot, as long as the majority of calories we produce are unhealthy. It is the availability of and access to types of food that determines our diets, and those, in turn, are factors of agricultural policy. For a healthy population, we must mandate or at least incentivize growing real food for nutrition, not cheap meat and corn and soya beans for junk food.
As omnivores, humans have choices, but most choices available to Americans are bad ones. Literally: 60% of the calories in the food supply are in the form of ultra-processed foods (UPFs, or junk food), which are the primary cause of diet-related diseases. That means almost no one can make a “good” choice every time, and many of us can barely make […]
Becoming a vegetarian is the best way to not only lose weight, but also help eliminate Climate Change.
P.S.: I think I will outlive my step-son because he is an idiot and weighs over 220 pounds and has a huge gut. He eats out at the Burger joints instead of listening to me and becoming a vegetarian.
I also wanted to add that since I turned vegetarian about almost 30 years ago I went from 220 pounds to 120 pounds and I feel healthier than ever. I do have a little less strength because I get very little exercise, I want to change that by getting one of those “Total Gyms” which Chuck Uses, and I trust him because he is the best martial artist in the world in my opinion. He even invented his own style of martial arts which combines many of the dozens of black belts he has earned.