Last week, almost immediately after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s swearing-in as secretary of health and human services (HHS), Donald Trump established an interagency commission to follow through on his promise to “Make America Healthy Again.” This holistic approach to solving the country’s chronic disease epidemic is the only way to reverse it.
Carrying the same name as the slogan, the commission’s goal is to focus the country’s ever-expanding health care resources on ending chronic disease, with the ultimate goal of significantly reducing health care spending. The United States spends more on health care than any other wealthy country. According to Statista, annual health expenditures stood at over $4.4 trillion in 2022, and personal health care expenditures equaled $11,197 per resident. Roughly 90 percent of that number goes toward treating chronic disease and mental health problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Making this country healthy will require much more than HHS resources alone. According to the executive order, the commission will include representatives from more than a dozen agencies. Some, such as the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and HHS, are obvious considering that one of the greatest contributors to good health is proper diet and nutrition.
Food policy is a shared responsibility of several different agencies. While the USDA regulates farming practices and the quality of the food being produced (for example, USDA might chart the trend of fruits and vegetables becoming less nutritionally dense than they were 50 years ago), the additives and preservatives used by food manufacturers are in the domain of the Food and Drug Administration. And while SNAP (formerly called the Food Stamps Program) is overseen by the USDA, the CDC is responsible for infectious disease research and response and works with state and local health departments to improve food safety. This splintered and rather confusing approach to food policy might be worthy of the commission’s time as well.
However, Trump also included non-health-specific agencies and offices, such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Education, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Environmental Protection Agency. This demonstrates President Trump’s dedication to a holistic, comprehensive approach to health and his understanding that if we are going to make America healthy and great again, we need to consider that true health is more than merely the absence of disease. Poor health also has much further reaching consequences than pant sizes or even health care costs. […]
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Why One Survival Food Company Shines Above the Rest
Let’s be real. “Prepper Food” or “Survival Food” is generally awful. The vast majority of companies that push their cans, bags, or buckets desperately hope that their customers never try them and stick them in the closet or pantry instead. Why? Because if the first time they try them is after the crap hits the fan, they’ll be too shaken to call and complain about the quality.
It’s true. Most long-term storage food is made with the cheapest possible ingredients with limited taste and even less nutritional value. This is why they tout calories so much. Sure, they provide calories but does anyone really want to go into the apocalypse with food their family can’t stand?
This is what prompted the Llewellyns to launch Heaven’s Harvest. They bought survival food from multiple companies and determined they couldn’t imagine being stuck in an extended emergency with such low-quality food. They quickly discovered that freeze drying food for long-term storage doesn’t have to mean sacrificing flavor, consistency, or nutrition.
Their ingredients are all-American. In fact, they’re locally sourced and all-natural! This allows their products to be the highest quality on the market, so good that their customers often break open a bag in a pinch to eat because they want to, not just because they have to due to an emergency.
At Heaven’s Harvest, their only focus is amazing food. They don’t sell bugout bags, solar chargers, or multitools. They have one mission – feeding Americans in times of crisis.
What they DO offer is the ability for people to thrive in times of greatest need. On top of long-term storage food, they offer seeds to help Americans for the truly long-term. They want them to grow their own food if possible which is why they offer only Heirloom, Non-GMO, Non-Hybrid, Open-Pollinated seeds so their customers can build permanent food security on their own property.
