Why Your Zip Code May Be More Important to Your Health Than Your Genetic Code

"An apple a day may help keep the doctor away but that assumes you can find an apple in your neighborhood."

How you see a problem drives how you create the solution.

We are not a healthy country. And while health reform focuses on coverage, cost, access and care, this is simply triage to a system that fails to ask the question "Why aren't we healthier in the first place?" Our health reform debate is focusing on where health ends (with medical care) and not on where our health begins (where we live, learn, work and play).