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Don’t look now, but people are finally starting to figure out that it’s the food they are eating that is ruining their health and quality of life!!  A food revolution is inevitable, because the status quo is un-affordable misery.  As behaviors change, the future brightens.

See Diabetes defeated by diet: how new fresh food prescriptions are beating pricey drugs. Here are some important stats on just the diabetes epidemic alone:

• Spending on diabetes drugs in the U.S. reached $53.7 billion last year, more than double what it was in 2013.
• Roughly 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes.The Fresh Food Farmacy program, being tested by Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, which includes education and free nutritious meals, can lower diabetes treatment costs by 80 percent.
• The high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet is being used by new health-care start-up Virta Health, which aims to treat 100 million patients by 2025.

Using food therapy to help control diabetes.  Here is a direct video link.

How food therapy helps control diabetes from CNBC.

Nice to hear some truth in this clip about the state of present labor conditions. Nine years after the great recession we still have massive under-employment in much of the west. This on top of record debt and minuscule liquid savings mean the masses are more vulnerable than average late cycles, amid slowing global growth.

Dartmouth College Professor of Economics Danny Blanchflower discusses the lack of wage growth in the U.S. and U.K. economies. Here is a direct video link.

As a handful of tech giants have goosed the NASDAQ and market sentiment back to euphoric highs rivaling the 2000 tech bubble top, former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris helped delivered a dire warning this week to the advertising agencies, marketers, brands, tech companies, and social platforms gathered at a conference in the south of France:  mobile-app addiction is fueling a public health crisis leading to developmental challenges for the youth, mental illness, loneliness and increased suicide.  People are starting to ask “who paid for all this” harm? See Marketers risk a consumer backlash linked to mobile-tech addiction:

According to Harris, who went on to found the Center for Humane Technology, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google are caught in a zero-sum race for our finite attention. These platforms develop increasingly persuasive techniques using AI-driven news feeds, content, and notifications to continually learn how to hook us more deeply. And why are they doing it? Well, Google’s U.S. ad revenue is projected to hit almost $40 billion, while Facebook’s is expected to reach $21 billion.

Due to alarming statistics on the impact that mobile apps, particularly social networks, have on not just children and adolescents, but also adults, when it comes to addiction issues and even loneliness, Harris sees an impending public health crisis.

…brands could be faced with a massive backlash, impacting consumer trust and ultimately sales—which is what the ads are trying to boost in the first place.