I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.

If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.

I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.

Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.

I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?