When we look at changes in the American diet over the past 30 years alongside the rise common health and behavioral problems in American children, a compelling picture starts to emerge. As Americans have eaten much larger amounts of highly processed and convenience foods, so too have they become more depressed, anxious, overweight, diabetic, and moody. Our kids are no exception.

QuantumShift TV’s ‘Be the Change! Share the Story!’ school video contest helps youth fight social and environmental injustice in their own communities—and around the world.

 

A desire to “do something” about the environment had been pondered off and on over the last couple of years by various people at Head-Royce School, a K-12 independent school of about 770 students in Oakland, California.

Cheryl Charles began her career as a high school teacher in inner city Phoenix, AZ, focusing on factors affecting the achievement of minority youth and trying to figure out how to foster healthy co