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The title is a quotation from Shakespeare's character Puck, in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Let us consider ... WHY ?
WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE !
1. Childhood Obesity Epidemic.
2. Adult Morbid Obesity.
3. Childhood Diabetes Epidemic.
4. Adult Diabetes Epidemic.
WHY?
Too many "Twinkies"?
Fast Food Overindulgences!
Oh, but we drink "Diet" sodas ... Huge Ones to wash down the Gargantuan Meals we consume!
DUH?
How about Food Additives? Chemicals, Dyes, Preservatives, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Steroids, and a million other "Additives" that Uncle Sam Allows to be added! FDA - The Food & Drud Administration - They have been "in Cahoots" with all the Corporations in the Food Industry, for about 65 Years Now!
Oh, and lest I forget, how about "Big Pharma" - all the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers... Ripping Everyone Off with exorbitant Price Gouging, to reap really, really, really ... Exorbitant Profits!
Especially us Seniors on Medicare! They do Not Want CURES! They want to maintain and increase a Captive Market!
Not unlike "Fattened Cattle" being lead to Slaughter, the American Public, John & Jane Doe, "We The Sheeple" ... Just sit back, get fatter & fatter ... Munch & Crunch every morsel of "Snacks" that we can get our fat little hands on, and shovel into our "Bottomless Pit" Stomachs!
DUH?
How about those 535 So-called "Public Servants" Up on The Hill in Congress? They Know what is happening, but simply Don't Care, as long as they get Re-Elected and continue to line their pockets with "GRAFT" !
What A Country! What a Farce! What a Shame!
"WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE!"
INDEED !!!
(C)-TKH.
OOPS! Did Forget to mention ...
High Blood Pressure ...
Heart Attacks ...
Strokes ...
High Cholesterol ...
Cancer, More Cancer Than Ever Before ...
What ever happened to the "WAR" on It?
DUH?
Oh ... Lunch Time ... Gotta Go GORGE !!!
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As a impoverished student, I cooked my own meals and quickly found that using raw ingredients rather than processed food was much cheaper, better tasting and wholesome. Some of my fellow college students were already sick from bad eating habits.
My primary snack throughout the years was popcorn made with cottonseed oil and a little salt. No butter and no cholesterol producing oils. I knew enough to do that in the 1970s. As a result, as of my last physical, even though I am forced to be sedentary in a wheelchair for the last 21 years, all my physical parameters are normal at 73.
What I'm trying to say is, we have to make intelligent decisions about what we eat. Back then, in the 70s there was a slogan: "You are what you eat." Many took up the fad of being vegetarian. I never bothered with fads… They're dangerous.
Since corporations have taken over farming. Much of the meat and vegetables we find in the supermarkets are so doctored that some have become dangerous to eat over the long-term. Advertising and convenience of junk foods continually sucks people into bad habits that lead to serious health problems like you describe.
Poverty also plays a part. In poor neighborhoods that lack grocery stores, families tend toward fast food and junk processed food.
Once again, it's not up to the government to control our food, it's up to us to make intelligent decisions so that we can grow old healthy and not dependent upon Big Pharma to make us try to feel good when we are not.
Ron
Love ya!
Jane
All gripes well-taken!