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Special Report: The Bugle Is Sounding


Emergency SNAP assistance (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – “food stamps”) is ending today. That means that lots of our kids are about to go hungry. Like maybe one-meal-per-day-hungry.

Here’s the triple whammy:

  1. The assistance is ending.
  2. Food is very expensive.
  3. Donations of food to food banks are way down. So are monetary contributions.

This is a doomsday scenario for millions of American kids.

You’re going to hear a lot about this because our Congress, in it’s self-serving focus on wealthy people and corporations, decided that March 3 this year is a good day to let our kids go hungry and fall into malnutrition.

Yes, our kids. They’re kids your kids go to school with and play with. They’re your neighbors’ kids. They’re some of the cute faces with unlimited life potential. Except that their potential is about to be starved.

Even if Congress suddenly became charged with an unusual spirit of humanity, they’d take too long to do anything about today’s hungry kids. So, the short term solution is for us to step up, you and I, and be the cavalry charging over the hill, flags waving, bugle sounding.

Here’s a simple 3-step list for how you and I saddle up:

  1. Do a look-up on “food banks near me” (no quotation marks) and pick one.
  2. Load up your car with bags of non-perishable food and deliver the food to the food bank. They will thank you.
  3. While you’re there, write a check to the food bank. They have to buy food for those hungry kids, too, and have to pay the same prices you do.

They need the cash to feed the kids.

Right now is the perfect time to kick your spurs and gallop to the rescue.

And, YES, it’s a great idea to invite friends and family to be part of our cavalry.

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This Is Personal


Reading time – 74 seconds; Viewing time – 2:28  .  .  .

This is personal.

Genetically speaking, you’re exactly the same as humans were 20,000 years ago. Back then humans were perfectly constructed for their living conditions, as they subsisted on grains, nuts, fruits, vegetables, water and a little protein when they managed to hunt down an animal. They worked very hard just to survive and propagate the species. It was impossible to become fat by consuming excess calories relative to the calories expended just to survive.

Life circumstances have changed just a bit from those times, but our bodies have not evolved. We are still designed to eat those same kinds and quantities of food and to be physically active most of the time. Chances are good that doesn’t describe your typical day.

We can rationalize the desserts, the beer and the fatty protein we eat – it’s our choice. But our kids don’t get to make that choice because they eat what we supply. If the fridge and cupboard are full of bad stuff abounding in sugar, high fructose corn syrup, salt, fat – junk food – then that’s what they’ll eat. That includes other junk food, like the almost all carb and salt Happy Meals and the almost all carb pizzas we serve them. And they’ll drink the soda instead of water because it tastes better. Then they’ll veg-out on the couch with some electronic device.

And that is why, “The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012. Similarly, the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to nearly 21% over the same period.”

One in six of our kids is obese! Not overweight: OBESE! That’s from the CDC. Their only interest is public health, unlike our legislators who need to keep the sugar industry happy in order to get campaign contributions. Plus, you don’t win the Iowa caucuses by telling Iowans that high fructose corn syrup is bad stuff that is killing our kids.

The part of that you can control immediately is your kitchen and your kids’ sedentary “activities.” That’s in quotes because killing aliens with one’s thumbs isn’t very active.

These are our kids. That’s why it’s personal.

If you’re a grandparent, pass this love note along to your kids.

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Ed. note: There is much in America that needs fixing and we are on a path to continually fail to make things better. It is my goal to make a difference – perhaps to be a catalyst for things to get better. That is the reason for these posts. To accomplish the goal requires reaching many thousands of people and a robust dialogue.

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