27/08/2025
So true! ♥️
Food sits at the center of our biggest challenges, and that means it’s also our most powerful solution. This is fixable.
Diet now drives 11 million deaths every year. Shifting from ultra‑processed foods to real, whole foods can prevent and even reverse disease at scale. Programs that treat food as medicine have cut hospital use and saved about $9,000 per patient per year.
Our current food environment targets vulnerable communities…billions are spent marketing junk to kids, while schools normalize it (50% serve brand‑name fast food; 80% have soda contracts). We can redesign incentives toward nutrient‑dense food and produce prescriptions.
And industrial agriculture (plus food waste) is the single largest driver of climate change, more than fossil fuels. We also waste 40% of all food, a loss topping $2.6 trillion a year. Regenerative practices restore soils, water, and biodiversity, real repair, not rhetoric.
You can make in impact today: choose whole, real foods; prioritize fruits and vegetables; support regenerative producers; cut waste at home; and back policies that reimburse food as medicine. We can use the power of our forks and our collective behavior to move markets and policy.
It’s not all‑or‑nothing. Do your best. One bite at a time.
