I can afford healthy, organic food. I exercise consistently 5 days a week. I’m retired and financially secure. Yet, at 66, I am showing signs of pre-heart disease! And it’s all stress related. There has been a lot of illness, care taking and loss within my family ever since Covid. So I do feel that stress, poverty, environment and a broken health system play heavily into the cause of disease. There is so much misinformation out there concerning diet and exercise that it can be really frustrating and difficult to understand.
We do need better education and access to healthy food for those unable to afford such basic needs. Our system is broken - run by the food and drug industry that are making huge profits off disease.