The US Diet Is Deadly. Here Are 6 Ways We Can Advocate For Change

Available for Interviews: Dr. Franchell Hamilton

Dr. Franchell Hamilton, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FOMA, is the Founder of NeuroSwitch™ Weigh Loss–a place for people to receive treatments ranging from bariatric surgery and medical weight loss to hormone therapy. Dr. Hamiltion recently released, Curiosity is the Best Weight Loss Medicine: Observations from a Bariatric Surgeon. 

What Dr. Hamilton could say on
The American Diet Epidemic:

The standard American diet is disheartening and consists mainly of processed food originally meant to be able to last longer during the Industrial Revolution.

• • Diet-related deaths in the US outrank deaths from smoking.
  • Half of US deaths are from heart disease.
  • Dietary risks were responsible for 11 million deaths over a period of time, according to some studies.

• • 900 people die a day from heart disease alone, and this is linked to a poor diet.
  • Artificial sweeteners and processed meats are the most notable here in the US.
  • Obesity has become the 3rd global killer among lifestyle diseases, and this can also be tracked in the US diet.
  • The US can not fix hunger by feeding people cheap, high-calorie processed food; this just results in the worsening of the cardiac and obesity epidemic—this food is the most abundant here in the US and has spread globally.
  • The White House is hosting a food conference on 9/28 to address Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.

how to Resolve Our Diet Problem

1. 1. Treat food as medicine. 
   2. Make healthy food affordable.
   3. Insurers should pay for healthy groceries and health/nutrition education.
   4. Programs like WIC should focus on the quality of food and not the amount of food, food stamps should require quality over quantity. 
   5. All Americans should get preventative behavioral lifestyle coverage
   6. Support our farmers.