Nutritional Extremes

I think what is needed here is education and balance. It seems to me that there are many people that need educated about nutrition and many that need to have balance in there diet. There is enough food in this world to feed everyone and keep them healthy, but it comes down to the haves and have nots. It seems that there are a lot of haves and many of them don't care about the have nots. I think that if communities would just come together and help each other then we could really help the undernurished and malnurished in our country. In my small isolated community in the Sierras, most of us help each other and if one household has a surplus of something it is passed on to those who need it or if someone needs something that one of us produces (like eggs, milk, veggies, etc.) all they have to do is ask and it is provided for them. As for those in other countries, I believe that they need to be educated about nutrition and maybe taught about the foods with the highest nutritional value that will grow in their climates. When they have this knowledge, then we need to get together and provide them with the seeds and tools to produce their own food. It seems to me that in America when everyone farmed there was not such a high level of obesity and although there were still diseases there were not as many and they were different from the ones most people suffer from today. I believe that technology and commercialized food production are major factors in the increase in obesity, as well as heart disease, stroke and cancer, just to name a few. My question is with all our advances, are we really making a better life for ourselves and the world in general?