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In an episode of “Breaking Points,” journalist James Li explained how Big Food profits by selling unhealthy, addictive food that causes obesity, Big Pharma makes money from treating it, they both work with the government to create an industry-friendly regulatory framework and Big Media gets paid to peddle their products.
“Is modern medicine helping us live longer and healthier?” Or is a “darker, more sinister agenda” creating “a longer but sicker life?”
Journalist James Li explored this question on a recent episode of “Breaking Points,” where he discussed how “Big Pharma, Big Food, mainstream media, medical professionals, [and] the government” collaborate to make us sick.
Li showed a “60 Minutes” clip about the obesity epidemic ravaging the U.S., in which Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, obesity medicine physician-scientist and associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, explained why common beliefs about obesity are wrong.
“The number one cause of obesity is genetics,” she said. “That means if you are born to parents that have obesity you have a 50 to 85% likelihood of having the disease yourself even with optimal diet, exercise, sleep management and stress management.”
Li also discussed Ozempic and Wegovy, the weight-loss drugs at the center of the latest weight-loss craze.
“So the message from the mainstream media is pretty simple,” Li said. “Obesity is a disease, take a drug.” But that’s not the whole story, he said.
Obesity in the U.S. has gone from “almost nonexistent” in the 1950s to a projected 50% of the population by 2030. So, “unless the human race experienced some kind of quantum leap in genetics, there must be something else we’re doing that is destroying our metabolic health,” Li said.
Drawing on recent work by pharma consultant-turned-whistleblower Calley Means, Li pointed to two major issues in the U.S. food system — too much sugar and a lack of fiber.
The average child eats 100 times more sugar — which is more addictive than cocaine — per day today than 100 years ago — and the sugar hides in processed foods, Li said.
Knowing that sugar is addictive creates an incentive for processed food producers to keep adding more of it to our food.
Li told viewers:
“If you are a food industry executive — bonus is on the line, shareholders demanding astronomical growth quarter after quarter — what do you do to get a leg up on your competitor?
“Well, you add sugar to your products to make them more addictive so people buy yours and not your competitors’ and then they try to one-up you and all of a sudden sugar is everywhere.”
Fiber, which according to the Mayo Clinic helps “maintain a healthy weight and lowers your risk of diabetes, heart disease and some types of cancer” has almost completely disappeared in a lot of our most popular food products.
In fact, Li said, according to the National Institutes of Health, only 5% of people consume the recommended daily target of fiber.
Li quoted Nicole Avena, Ph.D., who told Newsweek that many ultra-processed foods are “almost pre-chewed” for us:
“They melt in your mouth immediately. There’s no protein. There’s no water. There’s no fiber slowing them down. It’s going to hit your taste buds and light up your reward and motivation centers of the brain immediately. Then there’s a secondary hit of dopamine when it gets absorbed into the body.”
Li said, “These food companies have morphed into narcotics laboratories. They’ve found a way to hack our brains and make a killing both figuratively and literally.”
The healthcare system, he said, then comes in as a hero to treat these illnesses and makes skyrocketing profits doing so. Li cited Means to say that the healthcare system doesn’t focus on health or prevention. It only makes money when people are sick.
“Every single institution is incentivized for more Americans to be sicker for longer periods of time,” Li said.
FAIR reported that every doctor interviewed by “60 Minutes” for its segment on obesity had received money from Novo Nordisk, maker of the drugs effectively being advertised on the show.
None of the doctors mentioned the serious side effects associated with the drugs, Novo Nordisk’s massive profits from the drugs or the lobbying the drugmaker is doing to get insurance to pay for weight-loss drugs.
This is how the “obesity industrial complex” works, Li said:
“The food industry makes billions of dollars selling food that’s known to be toxic and poisonous, making millions of Americans sick in the process. The healthcare industry in this case gets to play hero while also pocketing billions of dollars selling a supposed miracle drug to millions of adults and children.
“Both of these industries have worked out a little deal with the federal government, Congress with lobbying money with funding for the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] so that they can rewrite science and continue to sell food that is known to be toxic and poisonous.”
But, he said, despite the fact that the entire system is organized to profit from making people sick, there are some “no-brainer” solutions Means proposed that Li puts forward.
First, the FDA ought to revise the “recommended” added sugar in children’s diet per day from 50 grams, based on a 2,000-calorie diet, to zero.
Second, he said, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as “food stamps,” functions as a subsidy to the processed food industry because most SNAP benefits are expended on cheap, processed food. Reforming that program, he said, could end those subsidies.
Li concluded by asking the audience:
“All the technological advancements in public policy decisions of the last half century, have they contributed to promoting a longer and healthier life? Or a longer and sicker life?”
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These toxic food additives seem to be highly effective on the darker element of our population, because I hardly ever see a sheeboon that is under 300 lbs.
Sheeboon – that’s a good one!
Ghettopotamus is another one.
And they are followed around the store by their equally rotund chilren.
TLDR and I already know how this works. But a couple of things struck me last night. I watched local news (because I do like to keep track of what the latest bullshit is).
There was a man in the Target ladies room with a selfie stick using it to peep at women trying on clothes.
1. I got distracted by the women they were interviewing coming out of the Target. Young and huge. Every woman walking out the door was big as a house!
2. The entire story is laughable because if the man said he was a woman he would get protection from Target. Now this could still happen because they haven’t caught him.
That’s exactly what I was thinking: just put on a dress, fella, and peep at the ladies all ya want to, with impunity.
MSM pushes the idea of fat acceptance, too.
In the ‘ 70’s sugar was replaced in many items with HFC , high fructose corn syrup.
In soda I can remember the radical taste change. Now its in everything from bread to beer.
Bad enough on its own, how does react with other food additives I wonder.
PBS news was usually sponsored by ; ADM Archer Daniels Midland. The food industry giant
HFCS, with an extra dose of mercury to boot
Vaxes generally have aided our overall health decline, including type II diabetes, I’ve read, so maybe this semi-belongs here:
From here:
Isn’t it ironic when The WHO says:
Its herding the sheep in a constant circular movement.
“The number one cause of obesity is genetics,”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Momma can’t quit eating junk food and the children are doing the same thing. Isn’t that genetics?
First of all, fast food is grose, not to mention the clientele preparing it. Eat at your own risk!
Learn to spell at your own risk!
Fuck you! Fag. Hows that?
Come on Boucher.. that wuz kinda funny..
You’re a “gross”, dick sucking, fuck!. Fixed it. Thanks! Find a handle so I can follow you around and fuck with you on every comment you make. No, shit stains like you are to cowardly for that.
Your psychiatrist might be able to help you figure out why “fag” and “dick sucking” is your go to response.
Spend a lot of time dwelling on them don’t you? Ever ask yourself why?
BTW “TOO” cowardly.
LOL at you.
Touché, Karen
That misspelling (“grose”) was obviously a genuine typo and not modern engineered ignorance. The poster fat-fingered the “e” which is right next to the “s”.
There’s plenty of atrocious illiteracy on display even at TBP, such as not distinguishing between was and were, but that was clearly a mere typo.
I misspell all the time. Fat thumbs that take up 2-3 buttons, and autocorrect that gets you in the ass most times. At this point I just think it’s funny what gets posted (and yes I did spend extra time to make this post) if y’all don’t like it, I will just post extra hard
Ah, there he is, the smart-ass know-it-all.
Do you realize that some English words are spelled differently depending on what country one lives in? You must be quite insecure and useless if spelling and grammar corrections are all that you have to offer this community.
I offer that the average IQ in this “community” averages 90.
The spelling, grammar, syntax, and overall tone of the “conversations” here indicate a severe “tribe” mentality with a side dish of socially isolated and victim hood anger caused by misunderstood circumstances because of poor psychological child rearing. I am here for the humor…it never fails to entertain.
“Victim hood” [sic] is one word, ChatGPT-via-Langley.
Your theft via taxation and money printing and drug money-laundering budget is too high for this level of incompetence, Langley. Up your game.
IKR 🤣
Then go to a website with others like you who have OCD. We obviously have different priorities for participating in a comment section. We have plenty of well educated folks here, I can assure you, they just don’t need to put someone else down in order to feel good about themselves.
Your word salad is bland and tasteless gibberish. I’d be looking for some humor too if I were lacking a personality. Or maybe you, as a paid troll, have no originality at all, so you go for the cheap shots and correct spelling and grammar to earn your paycheck. Sad.
We recently went out to eat a nice place. They have a gourmet restaurant (relative as you can’t get too weird with food in Montana) and a pub. We ate at the pub. Anyway the food came and it looked delicious.
However the chicken a d pork chops had a weird texture- sort of spongy. Yuck. I’ve noticed this happening more and more.
We are used to eating real food but think of all those don’t even know.
I used to work in a food machine manufacturing plant. They run the meat through a tenderizer which is like a bed of nails on a conveyor belt. That’s where you’re getting that spongy texture. I hope, anyway! It could be most anything these days.
They do it so the meat absorbs any flavoring, like marinade, faster and more “efficiently”.
Some chicken, especially a strip or a patty, has been manufactured to mimic real muscle tissue. They try to make you believe that you are getting quality breast meat, but it’s not all meat. It’s meant to be deep fat fried. I put some in the oven to warm them up and it was definitely not meat or edible. Never again. I ran across an article on this issue, but didn’t save it.
There is yoga mat material in chicken nuggets. That’s old news. I think that it’s in Subway’s bread, also.
I always thought Subway bread was like rubber and then I found out they put actual rubber in it.
The medikill (hat tip auntie), big ag and govt have no interest in a healthy People.
Healthy People are a danger to the controllers and their criminal actions.
The seasoning powder you find on stuff like ‘ cool ranch chips ‘ is loaded with a non stick anti caking agent so it will flow free and not clog up the mixing machines.
Powdered SILICA. Not food but FDA says , its generally recognized as safe.
Like wood pulp powder in Parmesian cheese
Read the book – whats in your food
The book Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss is also a good read.
A herb garden and food dehydrator are on the list.
Genetics of being fat – If momma cannot put down the fork and quit stuffing her face, her children have a high likelihood of being obese as well.
The most tragic of all is the use of Senomyx, using aborted babies for flavor enhancement.