A healthy us, achieved through wellness, is the goal of this page. We'll learn together what we can do to be our healthiest selves, inside and out. Let's be smart about our bodies and brains and become the best we can be. This world needs us! Ready to give this life the best you have to offer? We are!
"Health is the goal and wellness is the active process of achieving it".
https://www.medicinenet.com/what_is_health_and_wellness/article.htm
"According to the 2023 United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) 48.5 million (16.7%) Americans (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in the past year".
"The number of children ages 6-21 in the United States receiving special education services increased 10.4% from 2006 to 2021. Children receiving special education services under the autism category increased 242% during the same period. Numerous clinical trial data indicate heavy metal exposures and poor diet are the primary epigenetic factors responsible for the autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder epidemics. Dietary heavy metal exposures, especially inorganic mercury and lead may impact gene behavior across generations. In 2021, the United States Congress found heavy metal residues problematic in the American food supply but took no legislative action".
"In 2024, over 611,000 deaths from cancer are projected for the US. That’s more than 1,600 deaths from cancer each day. Cancer incidence is on the rise for many common cancers. In the coming year, we’re expecting to hit a bleak milestone—the first time new cases of cancer in the US are expected to cross the 2-million mark. That’s almost 5,500 cancer diagnoses a day".
https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/facts-and-figures-2024.html
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) It’s estimated that 6 out of 10 Americans suffer from a chronic disease, and 4 of those 10 suffer from two or more. These diseases include: type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, stroke, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease and chronic lung disease".
"We are in the midst of a national obesity crisis, and Americans are getting heavier. Today, about 65% of adults and 15% of children and adolescents in the US are overweight or obese". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300778/At
"In the United States. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups. One person dies every 33 seconds from cardiovascular disease".
"Osteoporosis affects men and women of all races. But white and Asian women, especially older women who are past menopause, are at highest risk".
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/osteoporosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351968
"Ancestral Diet, Sunshine, and Wise Traditions.” With Hilda Labrada Gore and Alex Clark
"Have you ever wondered why those perfectly red tomatoes from the supermarket taste like tap water? And did a simple roast chicken always require half a pound of seasoning?
It's no illusion. The flavor of the food we eat is changing, and has been for more than half a century. Tomatoes, chicken, strawberries -- everything we grow is bigger and cheaper, but blander than ever. At the same time, technology now lets us produce in the lab the very flavors that have been lost on the farm. And the result is that we have utterly transformed what, and how much, we eat.
In this remarkable new book, award-winning journalist Mark Schatzker discovers the missing piece of the food puzzle: flavor. Drawing on advances ranging from the brain science of food addiction to how plants communicate with insects, The Dorito Effect shows how we have interfered with a highly sophisticated chemical language that evolved to guide our nutrition. Evolution did not program us to get fat—we've simply tricked ourselves into craving the wrong foods.
The solution is as novel as it is exhilarating. We are on the cusp of a new revolution in agriculture that promises better health and longer lives through the one thing we most desire: better tasting food".
The Importance of Reading & Deciphering the Ingredients
"Calley Means is a former consultant for food and Pharma companies who now works to expose their practices and instead incentive healthy food as the foundation of health policy".
"For me, the main theme of this email is that we need to change how we think about health from a “siloed” view to a “root cause” (or metabolic) view. Treating each disease individually (statin for heart disease, SSRI for depression) has been a disaster – all these conditions have been going up. We need to inspire more awe and curiosity for interconnections in our bodies, both in personal decisions and through our public policy.
Nothing encapsulates this debate today more than Ozempic. I’m not against the drug per se – but I am against the push to label obesity as a disease and use taxpayer money to provide injections to obese + overweight Americans over 12. This would cost over $10,000 per year – buying every overweight person natural food would be cheaper. There is a push to give obese children Ozempic and tell them lifestyle/diet doesn’t matter – this would ensure they continue to eat bad food and get diseases in the future!"
https://calleymeans.com/2024/01/03/which-road-are-we-going-to-take/
Check out this great video
by: Mark Schatzker
by: RD Lee
by: Casey Means
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