Reply #143: it would be interesting to see how many participants stuck with it [View All]

[Matariki]

It's amazing to me that people don't see the correlation between their health, energy level, depression and the food they're eating. It's a vicious circle really, eating bad and then becoming too sick and tired and depressed to even cook. It's sad really.

The problem is complex - more than just available food choices and poverty, cooking skills and education. It seems like some transition happened in our culture that we didn't properly prepare for. Industrialization, television, women working outside the home. We went from one mode of living to another without planning for it. We should all be working 20 hour weeks, what with industrialization and a doubled work-force. Then we'd have time to take care of our families and ourselves, no? And that would probably mean addressing 'who owns the means of production' and all that. Dangerous stuff.