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From the Executive Director – Summer 2021
Dear Members and Friends,
In 2022, The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation will celebrate its 70th anniversary. I suspect that if Weston A. Price, DDS, and Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., MD, were still with us today, they would be even more concerned about the future of humankind than they were during the last century. It seems that profit and politics have secured so tight a grip on our society that general health and wellness have been relegated somewhere down the list of our country’s priorities.
In a recent JAMA Viewpoint article, “Declining Life Expectancy in the United States: The Need for Social Policy as Health Policy,” the authors elucidate: “Even before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic occurred, the US was mired in a 40-year population health crisis. Since 1980, life expectancy in the US has increasingly fallen behind that of peer countries, culminating in an unprecedented decline in longevity since 2014.” They go on to explain that the gap in longevity between socioeconomic groups has widened, even with increased per capita expenditures on health care: “At the same time, differences in longevity continue to be pronounced across racial and ethnic groups, led by elevated rates of mortality among Black and American Indian adults.”
Our work to inform, inspire, and guide you, our community, and the public amidst this crisis in health is undoubtedly more important today than at any point in the history of our organization. The good news is that we are facing a crossroads. For the first time in decades, attention to our personal health and well-being isn’t singularly entrusted to our doctors. Instead, we are taking more responsibility for our wellness choices. This evolution provides us with a timely opportunity to rethink how we can focus new energy and interest on the benefits of an ancestral diet and lifestyle that bring us into alignment with our human nature.
Over the coming weeks and months, we will be collecting data to better understand how we can serve your health needs in this new self-empowered world. Additionally, we will investigate new ways to advance public awareness and adoption of alternative health and wellness practices with experts, leaders, and influencers worldwide. These new insights will help guide strategies to expand our delivery of vital health information and valuable educational resources to improve health and wellness everywhere. Enclosed is a survey form that will provide us with the information we need to get you the information you need. Please complete and mail this to us, or visit price-pottenger.org/summersurvey to complete the survey online by August 30.
Summer provides many of us with ideal opportunities to gather with family, embrace community, and celebrate the abundance of the gifts in our lives. How lovely it is that after a nearly 18-month hiatus, we can come together under the warmth of the sun as one humanity! While you are at the beach, in the countryside, dancing at home with your kids, playing with your pets, or tending your garden, remember that there are others who are facing health issues and could use our help. This summer and for the balance of this year, we will be hard at work exploring how to expand the ways we serve you all.
Wishing you health and joy,
Steven Schindler
Executive Director
P.S. In June, I reached my one-year anniversary as executive director for The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation. To those of you who have reached out over this time with suggestions, comments, and financial support – thank you! If there’s something you would like to share, or if you would like to discuss a legacy gift, please email me at [email protected].
Published in the Price-Pottenger Journal of Health & Healing
Summer 2021 | Volume 45, Number 2
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