Obesogenic Foods: It’s Every Single Thing!
The diet industry and most of the U.S. food system are obesogenic
Have you visited a medical clinic or pharmacy lately? You will see many rapidly-aging people with severe mobility issues.
My nutritionist friend reports that she has patients in their 20s with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Children as young as age 10 have been diagnosed with obesity and heart disease.
Ten-year-olds should be running and playing outside with their friends, not visiting nutritionists or receiving expensive monthly prescriptions for diet drugs.
The twin phenomena of deep denial on the part of the majority of the Western medical community, coupled with unfettered, unrestricted capitalism enriching a tiny number of people who own Big Food businesses, Pharma businesses, or stock in them, has created the obesity pandemic.
People were terrified of COVID, which has recently resurged. COVID disproportionately harmed obese, older people.
It should have been a wake-up call.
Instead, I just watched both nights of Wrestlemania and while I love this unique form of sports entertainment, I hated the omnipresent obesogenic sponsors: Snickers, Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Pizza Hut, and Wendy’s. If it wasn’t…
