The Solstice spins us into summer today. Shift into the sun with conscious eating: know what’s in your food and where it comes from. Promise yourself you will eat well…and keep your promise.

In June, The CDC reported that more than 29 million people in the United States have diabetes. Three million more since 2010. One in four people with diabetes doesn’t know he or she has it. And another one in three people — 86 million adults, have prediabetes.

The short of it? That’s a lot of people getting sick.

Control, and even cure, includes exercise and better diet choices.

Celebrate summer with fresh, local, non-GMO produce from greenmarkets and natural food centers. Help support local farms, farmers and your own good health.

Go outside! Walk to that produce, my friend, get some Vitamin D from the sun, and find something healthy for dinner.

In NYC?
Visit Grow NYC to find greenmarket locations and hours, which ones accept EBT/Food Stamps, offer textile recycling and have a food scrap compost drop off: http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/search