Thursday, November 10, 2011
[WATCH]: Mark Hyman - How Haiti Can Help America Heal
www.connectingforchange.org For 20 years Dr. Mark Hyman worked to address the roots of chronic illness that now affects 1 in 2 Americans and costs our society over $2 trillion a year. Along his wife and father-in-law, he was the first doctor team on the ground after the earthquake on January 12, 2010 in Haiti. With Paul Farmer he arrived in the chaos at Haiti's main public hospital. In the aftermath of the earthquake, it became clear that Haiti's community based solutions for TB and AIDS were exactly the medicine needed for our global epidemic of chronic disease. Inspired by Farmer and Haiti, Dr. Hyman began work to bring community based change to first world epidemics of obesity and diabetes related illness in churches,
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