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Old 08-08-2012, 02:45 PM
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She runs Beach Cities Health District as CMO. Video below.

http://sciencestage.com/v/61490/blue...blue-zone.html
Thanks! Love the TED talks, and her's was great. Plus, that's exactly what I am talking about - I agree with her entirely. She is talking primarily about the medical viewpoint, but it's all the same "environment"

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TED ManhattanBeach - Lisa Santora - Finding Out Why We Do Not Live In A Blue Zone Dr Lisa Santora talks about her career as a Primary Care Physician and her growing realization that despite he passion for her vocation she needed to change the environment that her patients lived.
Yes, we need to change our environment: and we, as the collective society known as America, who elects our government to do our wishes, can choose to do that. In America we control our own destiny. We can choose to make basic food and basic shelter a given: affordable via a minimum wage that is livable. We can choose that health care will never be a concern for any of us, it's a given.

If your food, shelter and healthcare are a given, that will never be unavailable to you, or out of financial reach - imagine the freedom from worry, the enabling that's available for you to soar - to study, learn, create, make a business, enjoy your family, etc. To enjoy living a life.

Why don't we, America, choose to make this our societal norm? It's crazy!
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