Here I sit at my local Starbucks.
Didn't I say I would be breaking up with this company...in favor of supporting [truly] local coffee roasters/shops? yes, I did say that. But Starbucks has been playing with my head. So here I sit planning our vacation to UP, Michigan...while Andrew is visiting family in the great state of Texas.

This entry is actually another opinion piece on Type II diabetes and food.
While driving home from my 2nd shift job I love listening to NPR's Stateside (could wrong on the program). It's a program that talks about happenings in the state (in my case, Michigan). The nightly topic was controlling Type II Diabetes (?). Unsure the exact topic but I do know it was about food and sugar and how Type II diabetes is often preventable.

Before we begin, I just want to write the little disclaimer that yes, I know Type II runs in the family and you can eat all the healthy foods you want and run 10000 miles every day and still get Type II. And ethnicity plays a part, too.

 I get that.

I don't want to talk about Type II because I do not understand it in it's entirely. As far as I know know, no one in my family has diabetes.

Ok, here we go.

The radio program suggested Type II is preventable. It went on to say that the food people eat is causing all this illnesses...Type II, pancreatic cancer (by the way, pancreatic cancer can usually be found in the USA).

That being said, there's organizations out there that educate people on healthy eating and exercise habits. Yet despite all this education, Type II and cancers [that are a by-product of eating highly processed foods] are on the rise in the State of Michigan. Organizations can educate these certain demographics, yet these demographics (Hispanic, low-income etc) still have high Type II percentages. Education really isn't helping much.

Personally, I think we're looking at the wrong parts via solution.

It's human nature to eat what's available.

What's available in US supermarkets?
Highly processed, corn-syrup shit.

If you don't, or refuse, to believe that food lobbyist are partly to blame for this shitty food....I don't want to talk to you. Really, I don't. :)

I think lower income people know and maybe even WANT to buy healthy foods and make smart diet choices. Yet it's expensive and/or not readily available.

I love it that most Farmer's Markets in Western Michigan accept SNAP-type-like payment.

I could be all wrong, but as I stated this my opinion.

I'll always and forever be an advocate for real food and that everyone has the right to eat real food.