All participants will add their ideas, inspired by virtual events held around the world by the local organizers of each city. The one with the most ideas will receive the award for the most creative city.
Need to redefine and change dramatically how we as human beings eat food to avoide disease.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). CVDs are the number 1 cause of death globally: more people die annually from CVDs than from any other cause.An estimated 17.9 million people died from CVDs in 2016, representing 31% of all global deaths. Of these deaths, 85% are due to heart attack and stroke.Over three quarters of CVD deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries.Out of the 17 million premature deaths (under the age of 70) due to noncommunicable diseases in 2015, 82% are in low- and middle-income countries, and 37% are caused by CVDs.
About 422 million people worldwide have diabetes, particularly in low-and middle-income countries, and 1.6 million deaths are directly attributed to diabetes each year. Both the number of cases and the prevalence of diabetes have been steadily increasing over the past few decades. Source WHO.
According to WHO there is a globally agreed target to halt the rise in diabetes and obesity by 2025 but like tackling climate change - it is not real as governments are not taking it seriously for fear of upsetting the markets or capitalism.
Sufferers of ill health through bad eating and begaviour and those who will suffer and hard pressed health systems globally.
Most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioural risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet and obesity, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol using population-wide strategies.
People with cardiovascular disease or who are at high cardiovascular risk (due to the presence of one or more risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia or already established disease) need early detection and management using counselling and medicines, as appropriate - not provided at present globally and consistantly .
Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterised by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar), which leads over time to serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves. The most common is type 2 diabetes, usually in adults, which occurs when the body becomes resistant to insulin or doesn't make enough insulin. In the past three decades the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has risen dramatically in countries of all income levels. Type 1 diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin by itself. For people living with diabetes, access to affordable treatment, including insulin, is critical to their survival.
Halt the promotion of products that creates cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Regulate companies that do not adhere to the need for sale and supply of better nutrritional products such as a plant-based diet to prevent and reverse the number one killer of adults (heart disease) and diabetes .
Plant based diets should the default diet. Sale of tobacco is already regulated why not food?
More should be explored by governments to change eating and not allow marketing techniques or the capital markets to pursue and prevail the benefits of a more plant-based diet continuing to increase life-threatening chronic diseases
There are diets proven to not only prevent and treat but reverse our #1 killer, heart disease, along with other deadly diseases such as type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Regulattions do not not support this and Doctors get little if any formal nutrition training in medical school, graduating without some of the most powerful tools available to stop the chronic diseases that remain our leading causes of death and disability. Society should be educated from age of 3 years.Creating it a criminal offence to feed children from birth fries or food which will harm them just as physical violence or assault.
Consuming fruits and vegetables, and not smoking, has also been associated with longer protective telomeres, the caps on the tips of our chromosomes that keep DNA from unraveling. Each time our cells divide, a bit of that cap is lost. Telomeres can start shortening as soon as we’re born, and when they’re gone, we’re gone. The food we eat may impact how fast we lose our telomeres: Consumption of refined grains, soda, meat, and dairy has been linked to shortened telomeres, while fruit, vegetable, and other antioxidant-rich plant food intake has been associated with longer ones.
Longer Life for Human Beings and less dependance on overcrowded hospitals freeing up resources.
A six-year study by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found three behaviors exerted enormous impact on longevity: not currently smoking, consuming a healthier diet, and moderately exercising at least 21 minutes a day. People with all three behaviors reduced their chances of dying in that time by 82 percent.
