Thank you for your article in yesterday’s NY Times. I am also a holistic health counselor but I don’t pretend to know what the just right formula for eating and living might be. And personally, I abhor kale and shun the vegetarian lifestyle because I believe it is unhealthy for most.
It is important to open people’s eyes to the fact that our food choices in the U.S. are often marginal in their ability to support a healthy life. And that slowing down has myriad benefits. There are industrialized cultures all over the world that eat well and live well and have far less obesity and degenerative disease than we do here in the supposed greatest country on earth. We can learn from these cultures instead of foisting our unhealthy lifestyle choices on them in the name of corporate profits.
We can become the greatest of advocates for wellness by speaking with our dollars. The choices we make for nourishment, both in food and lifestyle, will dictate what is available to us. With real and honest information, we can make better choices right now and affect the future of our collective health. It is the role of wellness counselors and health coaches to inform the public about their options but promoting more kale and more tempeh is too limited in scope and not likely to be embraced by many.
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