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There’s a quiet crisis at America’s dinner tables. Where once children grew up on home-cooked meals built from real ingredients, today more than 60% of kids’ calories come from ultra-processed foods . Instead of nutrient-rich dinners with parents and siblings, many children graze on chips, sodas and boxed meals eaten alone in front of a glowing screen. It’s a major health problem, exacerbated by our fast-paced, convenience-driven culture.

Food has been stripped of meaning. It’s not treated as fuel, and it’s certainly not treated as family. It’s become an industrial product — calories on a shelf, far removed from the farms and soil that once rooted us to real nourishment. For generations, mealtime anchored households and com

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