Good Morning Richmond! Time for Cardiovision2020

I am in the financial industry and I love reading the Wall Street Journal. This week the headline read," Cost of Obesity Soars"- stating "the medical costs of treating obesity-related diseases may have soared as high as $147 billion in 2008... Reversing obesity is not going to be done successfully with individual effort."  As I have been clipping articles which back up the need for cooking co-op, I found a WSJ front page article 1/14/03 titled: "Community Chest- Finns Find A Fix For Heart Disease:Vast Group Effort- Doctors Cajole Whole Towns To Change Their Habits, From Bad Diet to Smoking- Praise From The Mayo Clinic."  The approach was to get the whole community involved- to change the lifestyle of the entire community- exercise, cooking courses, exhortations by the local grocer to eat more fruits and vegetables, cook with less fat,  yellow cards which documented patients lower blood pressures just to name a few creative ways a community in Finland dramatically decreased cardiovascular and cancer diseases.  Google CardioVision2020 and Pekka Puska to hear their call to business leaders and communities to come together and  to live better.  Richmond- let's lead this fight.