Guest Article by Robyn O’Brien, cross posted from Prevention.com
The reason that I do what I do is because I believe that clean and safe food should be affordable to all families.
This isn’t lifestyles of the rich and famous or some hippie thing. It
is a fundamental human rights issue. Kroger gets it. Seventy percent of
their shoppers are choosing organic or natural every time they enter
the store. Wal Mart gets it: they are launching a private label organic
line. Annie’s gets it, WhiteWave, Chipotle: just check out their share
prices. They know that this shift in consumer demand is not a fad. It is
not a trend. Cancer, autism, life threatening food allergies,
Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s are not fads or trends either. These conditions
don’t care if we are Republican or Democrat or where we sit on the
socioeconomic ladder. When these conditions and diseases hit our
families, our hearts hurt the same way.
And when they hit, more and more families are cleaning out their
pantries. Doctors at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center call it “the doorknob
syndrome.” A patient has been diagnosed, is sitting in their office,
hearing about the procedures and treatments that are going to be done,
and as they turn to leave, with their hands on the doorknob, they turn
back into the office, toward the doctor and ask: “Is there something I
could be doing differently with my diet?”
The cancer doctors that have shared these stories with me call is
“the doorknob syndrome” because of how often they have seen it. “We need
to upstream this information, they also say.” Yes, we do.
I recently received this email from a dad of three who lost his
health and then got it back. This is why I do what I do, as it has
everything to do with how our families hold together and our country.
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