The national debate on health care is moving into a new, hopefully bipartisan phase.
The fundamental underlying challenge is cost – the massive and ever-rising price of care which drives nearly all disputes, from access to benefit levels to Medicaid expansion.
So far, policymakers have tried to reduce costs by tinkering with how care is delivered. But focusing on care delivery to save money is like trying to reduce the costs of house fires by focusing on firefighters and fire stations.
A more natural question should be: What drives poor health in the U.S., and what can be done about it?
We know the answer. Food is the number one cause of poor health in America. As a cardiologist and public health scientist, I have studied nutrition science and policy for 20 years. Poor diet is not just about individual choice, but about the systems that make eating poorly the default for most Americans.
If we want to cut down on disease and achieve meaningful health care reform, we should make it a top nonpartisan priority to address our nation’s nutrition crisis.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
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What do you think is the solution for all these issues? What I think, is that we should come up with more eco-friendly ways of cultivation and save our water supplies by innovating new technologies for production of everything. And what comes to your main point -importance of food; I would love to hear more about the effects of different diets for your cardiovascular health etc. People know that vad diets affect by make you gain fat and feel poor, but there for example lot of hormonal reactions that food causes about which I'm interested in knowing more.
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Nice topic....
Give and take -steem
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