



That’s right: Mortality from chronic disease is going up, not down. And most shocking—mortality from Alzheimer’s disease is up 19 percent in one year!

The article concludes that this new data may “signal a looming social and economic catastrophe that demands a comprehensive national strategy to more effectively address obesity and other chronic diet-related disease.”



JAMA proposes the cause of this impending catastrophe: the crappy American diet, promoted by a food industry that aggressively markets low-quality products.





Watch this space.





According to an article in The Journal of the American Medical Association , data from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta paint a chilling picture: “Mortality rates increased in 1 year by 1% for heart disease, 1% for diabetes, 3% for chronic liver disease, 4% for stroke, and 19% for Alzheimer disease.”The solution to the problem should not be treatment of diseases that are preventable—that's like using a garden hose on a forest fire, and we’ve been trying it without success for decades.Asexplains, “Millions of individuals in the United States depend on medications to lower levels of cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood glucose; surgical procedures to open or bypass blocked arteries; and dialysis.”Key to a winning strategy must be a plan for making plant-based alternatives cost competitive with animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs.You can bet that The Good Food Institute will be on the frontlines, driving the discussion and improving our national health policies.