The Ripple Effect

by Andrea Revell

Why is it that a billion people in the world are obese, and one in three suffer from chronic disease? How are our struggling healthcare systems linked to the growing gap between rich and poor, or the climate crisis? Is our diet cooking the planet? Can we prevent cancer with a walk in the woods, reduce heart attacks with a positive mindset, or grow our brains by meditating? The Ripple Effect answers these thought-provoking questions with a bird's eye view on our global health and environmental crisis, exploring where we've gone wrong with our unsustainable way of life, and what to do about it. The explosion of chronic disease we see in the world today is so intertwined with modern day stress, social inequality, ecological degradation and our spiritual disconnect from nature that we can no longer use our normal reductionist lens to find the solutions we so desperately need. What is required is a ‘systems view’, looking holistically at the interplay of our lifestyle habits, mindsets, social relationships, environmental and spiritual (dis)connection, to encourage joined up thinking on how to heal ourselves and our planet. Pairing the latest research on personal and planetary health, The Ripple Effect is an inspiring manifesto on how simple lifestyle changes such as eating better, sleeping smarter, moving more, relaxing deeply and connecting with our spiritual nature can cause a big splash that transforms the world.

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