An article by Christina Pirello, an advocate of natural foods
nutrition and professor of culinary arts at Drexel University,
on Huffington Post states the uncomfortable truth about
healthcare reform that the mainstream media consistently fails
to report: “Healthcare reform is irrelevant until Americans
improve their lifestyles.” The fact is, our healthcare costs are
out of control because the diet and lifestyle that has become
the societal norm in this country causes disease. As Ms. Pirello
mentioned in her article: “We are willing to tolerate this
revolutionized food because it's cheap. But it comes at a high
price to our health. We spend less on food today than any other
people at any other time in recorded history. And the less we
spend on food, the more we spend on health care.”1 Here are some
numbers: - Overweight and obesity rates are at an all time high
– 73% of Americans are either overweight (38.8%) or
obese(34.2%).2 In 1980, 15% of adults were obese – over the past
30 years,that number has more than