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Food quality and quantity are driving a pandemic of our own making.

Open discussion and understanding of the social and behavior changes needed are critical to our collective health and future prospects.  Admitting the problem is the first step.  We can each lead necessary change by developing and demonstrating healthful habits in our daily life.

This is not about being skinny, or being vain, it’s about health. And those of us who assume the task of making food for others, need to understand the life-impacting opportunity and responsibility in this role. There is little that matters more than conscious food preparation and consumption.

This documentary does an excellent job of explaining the compound costs of self-destructive eating.  Here is a direct video link.

As I wrote last June in Trump catalyst: thinking people moved to action at last? the upside of a Trump Presidency was the potential prod to individual action among complacent masses.  And happily, that seems to be happening.  See Watch the growth of cities using 100% renewable energy:

“There’s been a sharp rise in environmental reporting since the last time we did this,” says Kyra Appleby, head of CDP’s cities program. “There has been a lot of momentum in U.S. cities in the absence of federal leadership on climate change. You are seeing large cities across the U.S. making the switch.”

U.S. cities already over 70% include Seattle; Eugene, Oregon; and Aspen, Colorado. Burlington, Vermont, is the most renewable, with fully 100% clean electricity already. Atlanta, Georgia, and San Diego, California, are the latest to commit to going to 100% of renewables, joining about 50 others, according to separate figures kept by the Sierra Club.

The role of cities is crucial for fighting climate change, as they account for about 70% of the U.S.’s emissions. The Sierra Club says if the whole U.S. Conference of Mayors, representing 1,481 cities, committed to 100% renewables, it would have a bigger impact than if the whole U.S. followed through on the Paris Agreement

Danielle was a guest on The Financial Survival Network with Kerry Lutz talking about recent developments in the world conomy and markets.  You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here.