Big Food & Pharma: hooking our kids

In a podcast interview with Dr. Mark Hyman, former Big Food and Big Pharma consultant Calley Means revealed information about why America is getting sicker, fatter, more depressed, and more infertile.

This is worse than the Covid pandemic.

I am horrified about the corruption that’s harming the health of children. Can you believe doctors are talking about prescribing Ozempic to treat obesity in six year olds? Sadly, one in six youth have obesity.

A 2006 study states: “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 3 children born in 2000 in the United States will become diabetic. The odds are higher for African American and Hispanic children as nearly 50% of them will develop diabetes.” (Ximena Urrutia-Rojas, John Menchaca, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center)

This is insane. The government needs to send the message that unhealthy food is to be avoided instead of subsidizing and recommending it! We need to push for taking Coca-Cola and high fructose corn syrup out of school lunches and hospitals NOW!

Processed food is the new tobacco.

To fix this we need to end Big Food’s funding of government, think tank organizations, academic research, and media outlets. It doesn’t help that there are unhealthy food and pharmaceutical ads on television.

It's time we demand an end to subsidies for processed food and drugs. We need to tax unhealthy food and use the money to fund healthy food initiatives.

It is an election year. Let’s improve health by giving our government incentives to put people before profits.