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Many Americans remain unaware of nutritional importance in relation to optimal health and the effect of poor nutrition on cognitive ability, obesity, social behavior, learning disabilities, and chronic illnesses. Every day your child’s life is impacted by environmental influences that may limit your child’s potential.Dr. Wiley, founder of the Food and Drug Administration was the creator and author of the country’s first Pure Food and Drug law, known as the Wiley act. He fought to protect, preserve, and enhance the food supply, but the commercial food industry, through their own political influence, undermined his efforts and forced him out of office. Since then the commercial food industry as well as our own government have influenced the decline in America’s natural food supply. As a result the well-being of your child’s life is now in jeopardy. Here are some important facts: - Children are the future of America.
- America’s indigenous natural food supply is limited
- American produce is now severely lacking in nutrients; it looks good but contains very little that is life-giving
- Pesticide exposure in children is primarily coming from their diets of conventional foods.
- Children absorb these environmental toxins at a much higher rate than adults do. Standard chemicals are up to ten times more toxic to children than to adults.
- 69 million Americans will be obese by 2010. Poor diet and inactivity are the second leading cause of preventable death after smoking
- Diabetes has increased by 49 percent in the past 10 years - 18 million people now have diabetes.
- To put the amount of money America spends on health care in perspective, it is more than the GDP of China.
- Commercial food is a profit-driven industry. Their objective is to sell product, not to regulate production out of moral concern for American families.
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