In the wake of more studies connecting childhood obesity to a scourge of chronic health problems and shorter lifespans, transforming the food we are offering children and adults has never been more critical:
“Large parts of the population believes that when you have problematic genes it is game over…We have discovered that it does not matter whether the children and adolescents have an increased genetic risk score or not…our treatment [using dietary and lifestyle changes] is efficient despite carrying common obesity risk genes. It gives hope to people with obesity and obesity related complications such as high blood pressure, cholesterol and fatty liver that we can in fact help them.”
Knowing that diet based-illnesses compound as we age, if we say we are too busy to prepare healthful food, the question has to be: how can anything be more time worthy?
Audrey is the CEO of Balanced, a nonprofit aimed at making healthy food more accessible in workplaces, schools, hospitals, universities, and retail spaces across the country. Formed in collaboration with leading nutrition expert, Best-Selling author, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, Dr. Michael Greger, Balanced was created to help end the ongoing public health crisis that is associated with the overconsumption of unhealthy foods.
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