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Want Health Care Reform? Start with the Food System!

I’m growing weary of all the talk about health care reform. Much of what I hear is still centered around old ways of thinking about health – reactive medicine and doctoring. It’s becoming more and more evident that theĀ  two things which will bring about real change to our broken health care world are prevention […]

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Public Schools, Home School, Health Care Reform, And The Food Industry

Some of you may have noticed the slow down in new articles on this site. The reason for this is that school has started and we are home-schooling this year. We have four years of home-schooling experience under our belts, but things are different this year because we are using a publicly-funded home-education program which […]

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Activism Real Food

Want Your Politicians to Listen? Write A Letter About The Food System And Health Care Reform!

I wrote this letter to my state senator, Mike Crapo today. I’m urgently concerned about the state of our health care and the food system – which are intrinsically tied together. Feel free to cut and paste this letter and send it on to your local congressperson or legislative representative. I’ve written over a dozen […]

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Activism Real Food

ACTION NOW! An Open Letter to the President And Other Decision Makers Regarding Preventative Health Care

Dear Mr. President and members of Congress, Most people know the health care system in our country is beyond broke. Even now that the new administration is in place, I’m seeing very little being done to remedy the desperately dire health care conditions in this country. I realize a major system change takes time. I […]