One of everyone’s favorite past times during this past Covid year and a half, especially during lock down, was food!  Eating. And eating. And eating. And eating.

The average person reported gaining 10 to 20 pounds during the past year in the US alone. Some even more. Why? Three factors stand out. 1) Increased stress about the virus or to be exact “stress-eating,” 2) lack of gym access and general exercise, and 3) lack of socialization (loneliness, isolation, depression, and separation from loved ones and friends). Never before have we realized just how much we depended on each other for our mental and physical and emotional and spiritual health.

Covid not only reminded us about what happens economically and culturally when we function in the extreme as individual units instead of as comm…