Bodies and Brains Suffering from Cheap Food and Cheap Energy

Personal HealthTwo of the biggest challenges to our personal health are strikingly similar, and similarly difficult and complex to overcome: Cheap, fast, processed food has brought us increases in diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and learning disabilities Cheap, energy – in the form of coal –  has brought us increased heart disease, cancer, asthma, learning diabilities, and neurological disorders in children. While the consequences of our collective lousy diet are sometimes easy to see - our shirt no longer buttons or we can’t zip our favorite jeans - consequences of our addiction …