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Regarding the topic of health and and health care, it seems that a lot of people come to the table with very cut and dry  perspectives.  Could we not look at the topic as a fabric of events rather than looking for isolated solutions as a means to pacify this more complex tapestry.

What are we taught to be our piroities for prosperity on regards to our physical and emotional well being?  Are we shaped to participate in a sleeping system of economic incentive rather than meeting our bodies needs?

or rather

How does our agricultuarl system of favoring monoculture and mass production compromise our evolution as humans in a convenience filled low physical activity culture in the face of economic incentive for the major corporate players to get ahead?

Is the use of food, drug and alchohol not a vehicle of emotional issues, and if so as a culture what are we not facing?

How does time and place in history not work in todays culture? i.e a farmers breakfast of 75 years ago eaten by  a receptionaist who sits all day in a chair.  Should we evolve our diets to our lifestyle?

How is it that we can have stores full of food with no nutrition and call that legal or moral.  If those on high are in charge of guiding our country to prosperity should companies like coke or frito lay be legal.  they hurt our bodies and our land through monoculture preservatives and...

  are addictive substances (from carbohydrates to tobaco)

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