Food Fix Quotes

“Your zip code is a bigger determinant of your health outcomes than your genetic code.”
― Mark Hyman, Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

“I cannot cure obesity and diabetes in my office. It is cured on the farm, in the grocery store, in the restaurant, in our kitchens, schools, workplaces, and faith-based communities.”
― Mark Hyman, Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

“which releases 600 million tons of CO2 equivalent into the air every year.25 In addition to the direct harms of our current system is the lost opportunity to provide the economic and ecosystem benefits of innovations in agriculture, including regenerative agriculture, forests on farms, silvopasture (raising animals among orchards to increase soil fertility and reduce need for water and fertilizer), etc. The benefits of these innovations in agriculture (see Part 5) have been estimated to be twice as big as the harms from our current agricultural model. The media, governments, and even the Paris climate agreement focus almost entirely on the energy sector, not agriculture. The Paris Agreement didn’t even mention that the food system itself is a bigger cause of climate change than the energy sector. Our agricultural system is both”
― Mark Hyman, Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet – One Bite at a Time