⨳What links these initiatives is metabolic health for the extension of healthy lifespan (aka healthspan) and the prevention chronic disease (including dementia)
⨳each initiative concerns: (a) what we put in our mouths, why, when (at what times and in what order) and how (how fast and how thoroughly chewed) ; and
⨳each initiative concerns: (b) how we reduce levels of the stress hormone, Cortisol, in our bodies
⨳both in ways neither that government action nor telling people to “eat less and exercise more” can or will ever achieve, and, in contrast, with real community involvement, enthusiasm, encouragement and support at the heart of their success.
⨳(1) Everything to do with improving health, healthy lifespan and wider wellbeing . . . including, for instance,
- ⨳preventing and, in some cases, reversing chronic diseases like pre-diabetes, Type 2 diabetes and dementia,
⨳(2) Everything to do with improving people’s sense of personal safety and security . . . including, for instance,
⨳in short, systematically reducing the major causes of chronic stress and fear in people’s lives locally, as a beacon for what can be achieved despite government inaction and incompetence;
⨳a common thread linking these Initiatives is that they directly tackle the underlying root cause of today’s prevalence of chronic disease by systematically and demonstrably improving the metabolic health of the population
There is ⨳incontrovertible evidence that allowing today’s worsening trends in chronic disease prevalence to persist will mean that our much-loved NHS will cease to be affordable as a ‘service free at the point of use’ within most people’s lifetimes.
Specifics:
- ⨳reducing (or, ideally eliminating) the worrying prevalence of vaping among local children currently as young as seven years of age;
- ⨳dealing with the profoundly stressful and damaging effects of Margaret Thatcher’s Section 21 No Fault Evictions clause in her hastily developed Housing Act 1988, which has, amazingly, still not been repealed despite over 14 years of cross-party support for doing so
- ⨳establishing a flourishing ‘Incredible Edible’ group – see Pam Warhurst’s short TED Talk at https://tinyurl.com/yxjja2n5
Attention is also needed to …
- ⨳reducing domestic violence,
- ⨳improving family law outcomes,
- ⨳creating more ‘good jobs’ (with fair pay and future security)