2024-09-26 PL-INT-2024-008858 GP 2045 Draft Comments - S. Olson

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Sharon L Olson, DO September 26, 2024 Committee for the GP 2045 Honorable Committee: I am writing this in protest to the health section in the proposed 2045, General Plan. Thank you for the work that you have done to put this proposal together but it is far too vague to be called a future plan, especially when it comes to health. There are a couple of nice statements in the health and wellness section but there are no real statements of how the plan will achieve health and wellness in our citizens. "Communities thrive when they have reliable access to essential resources such as quality and affordable housing, healthy foods, recreational areas, spaces for religious and cultural practices, medical care, living-wage jobs, safe neighborhoods, and educational opportunities." The plan does not address the universal trauma in Hawaiian citizens from the ongoing, illegal occupation by the US forcing Hawaiians to surrender their land to outside influences. People must be made aware that a trauma response may be procrastination and it could extend all the way to self harm. Currently, we don't have enough Therapists to deal with day-to-day problems that Hawaiians experience. Hopefully, with therapy for all, we could start to resolve the complacency and restore the Hawaiian warrior spirit. How does the general plan aim to integrate policies and actions that promote health and well- being in various elements? What exactly are the various elements and what policies are you planning to integrate for Health? I do not see a single plan for prevention of illness. Why are we not educating Hawaiians, that if they go out to eat, they are being poisoned? You might wonder how I can make such a bold statement. I am deathly allergic to MSG and almost 100% of the restaurants & Chefs use MSG in their foods. Often MSG is placed in the processed foods before the supplies reach the restaurant. FDA's rules state that MSG must be noted on labels. Unfortunately, the FDA does not follow its own laws and allows manufacturers to put hidden MSG in drugs, cosmetics and all packaged foods under more than 70 hidden code words. MSG is toxic to the brain and neurological system. Let's teach all Hawaiians how to read a label. So why not encourage all restaurants to stop routinely using MSG but offer it for those people who want it. Mostly we must educate people as to the long-term dangers and they probably will not want a flavor enhancer that poisons them. Glyphosate is another very toxic exposure. Repeated glyphosate exposures leads to high blood pressure, anxiety, sleep disturbance, family disruption problems, Alzheimer's and if you eat sugar also, the free glutamic acid will give you cancer. Round up, also known as glyphosate, causes cancer. This fact has been proven. Robert Kennedy, Jr, proved this fact in court, so Monzano sold to Bayer, so, it continues to be widely used especially on Big Island. I have tried to talk with politicians here in Hawaii but I think they've had a little too much exposure to glyphosate and MSG,since they seem to be brain dead already.