Wednesday, January 1, 2020

WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS: It's a New Year


"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."  
                                                          --Nelson Mandela



We made it to Twenty Twenty.  While there is so much good to celebrate in the world, there  are so many reasons for concern and worry.  The quality of our children's health and lives is at stake.

This year is an especially critical year for Mother Earth.  We are at a critical turning point in what happens to our future.  We need the dignity, leadership, and passion of women - and men - to lead the planet away from the cliff of climate change. 

No apologies for starting the first 2020 Wellness Wednesdays article on a serious note.  In my humble opinion, New Year’s resolutions should be laser focused on what each of us can do to reduce our carbon footprint and to teach our children about the interconnectedness of how the burning of fossil fuels is affecting migration patterns of birds, rising water and air temperatures, rising sea levels, increased flooding, fires, and hurricanes, the impact of rising temperatures on food production, human migration, health issues, and the quality of life of every person on this planet we call home.

We have reached a point where the health and lives of America’s children will be dramatically different than what their parents imagined for them.  Unless we can take dramatic steps to dare to become educated, to change what must be changed, to care about the future. 

Growing Healthy Kids will work this year to educate children and parents about healthy eating and reversing and preventing childhood obesity.  We will educate children and parents about taking care of our planet by taking care of our local communities by eliminating the use of single use bottles, recycling, and reducing our impact.  What you can do as parents is educate yourselves about what you and your children can do to reduce your use of fossil fuel.  Start this year by making the resolution to plant trees where you live.  

The planet will survive.  The question is, will we? 

With love,
Nancy Heinrich, MPH
Founder and Wellness Architect
Growing Healthy Kids, Inc.
Dedicated to improving the health - and lives - of America's children