How to make America great; instead of killing our selves

Craig likes to present as well informed on economic policy. But he’s only a brutalizing White capitalist that needs someone to boat the cost for others’ (“more deserving” success. The result of which ends in insurrection mobs attacking the nation’s capitol with confused ideas as to whom is the enemy.

For a a greater US, mature self help wisdom is required.

“Paris embraced the “15-minute city” ideal — that everyone should be able to reach life’s essentials within a short walk or bike ride. To make that possible, the city leases spaces to local food purveyors — “the reason there’s a bakery every five minutes,” explained Carlos Moreno, a University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne professor who developed the idea. In 2021 it began financially supporting sustainable food shops, from organic caterers to small cheese factories, including stores situated in social-housing buildings. Urban planning regulations in Paris impede the construction of large supermarkets, helping preserve the city’s open-air-market tradition. Every district is encouraged to host fresh produce markets each week. And a deputy mayor is charged with creating a healthy, sustainable food environment, alongside a broader billion-euro effort to ensure that local farmland feeds the city.

https://www.iledefrance.fr/toutes-les-actualites/lancement-du-plan-regional-pour-une-alimentation-locale-durable-et-solidaire?utm_source=chatgpt.com

From the same article: “By 2012, as Michelle Obama was struggling as first lady to get traction for her Let’s Move campaign to reduce childhood obesity in the United States, France had already banned vending machines in schools. Today, Paris strives to serve children mostly organic lunches low in added salt, sugar and fat, including vegetarian meals every week. The city is working to ensure that as many of the ingredients as possible are locally and sustainably sourced, and all plastics — from single-use cutlery to food containers — are being phased out. The lunch period is also meant to instill French values of food appreciation and culture. Children are supposed to sit for three or four courses.

https://www.paris.fr/pages/un-plan-alimentation-durable-pour-paris-2705#plan-de-sortie-des-plastiques-de-la-restauration-collective-parisienne

The result: The French spend more time cooking, eating and dare I say enjoying their food as Americans. Obesity rates are still too high, but they’ve increased far more gradually than in America. France has one of the lowest obesity rates in Western Europe. Seventeen percent of adults had obesity in 2020 — the most recent available data — and in the province that’s home to Paris, the rate is even lower (14 percent). In the United States, the adult obesity rate is nearly 40 percent. Roughly a quarter of French people report meeting the national dietary guidelines for fruit and vegetable consumption. In America, the number hovers around 10 percent.

France’s relatively low obesity rate and higher propensity for cooking and eating well are not accidents of history. They were carefully fostered by policy and regulation. When Americans visit Paris and marvel at how svelte people are, it’s not because the Parisians have superior willpower. They are objects of their environment, just as Americans are objects of theirs.

Americans are set up for sickness. The U.S. government has done relatively little to improve access to affordable healthy food and minimize junk. Ms. Obama’s Let’s Move campaign faced enormous backlash from Republicans. Now Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, says he wants to banish chronic disease, but he’s so far succeeding only in incremental steps, like having some junk food companies agree to swap artificial food dyes for natural ones, or granting waivers to states  to restrict SNAP recipients from using their benefits to buy unhealthy products.

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/maha-monday-snap-waivers.html”