There’s this drug Wegovy used for weight lost. It’s an injection. It works. Yesterday daughter, who pays out of pocket for it, was in with her Doctor for a follow up appt discussing her progress with this drug and conversation turned to how expensive it was, and how it’s hard to get insurance coverage for it. (Only certain insurance will pay for it and only when a person is substantially overweight.) The doctor told her drug was expensive because the medical industry doesn’t want people being able to afford it and losing weight as there is more profit in over weight, unhealthy people.
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I find it instructive to look at older pictures and compare them to today. Look at a beach picture from the 60's and today - anyone overweight in the 60's pic is almost always older, and most are not too overweight. Today, kids weight as much as grandpa did in the 60's.
Something changed in our diets, and we've been introduced to something that messes with our metabolism.
Sugar became a staple ingredient in the 70's, and replaced fats in the 80's - low fat food.
Too many antibiotics messed up our bacterial balance. Not every infection requires an antibiotic.
Wheat has been crossed with poisonous plants to make it disease and pest resistant - GMOs.
Flourine in the water - I don't think we know how much damage that is doing to us. Cities were not given a choice - it was mandated - now I'm beginning to think they did that to prevent having a control group that would show how much damage is being caused by fluorine in the water - vax'd vs unvax'd.
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In 1972 I was in Europe for almost 3 months and I only saw ONE obese person in that whole time...I was astonished...