You want to know what's killing us early? It's the standard American diet of high animal based foods and processed foods, taking advantage of the evolutionary drive toward sugar and animal fat. Yes, eggs too. The agribusinesses of dairy, beef, pork, and chicken continue to advertise with impunity that their products are healthy. They are not. Watch the documentary Forks over Knives for a good start at understanding the problem AND the solution. I've been woke about it for 7 years, having lost 45 pounds in 6 months with no addition exercise, and am asymptomatic with no prescription medications. I'm just past my 79th birthday, and my husband is 75, and the same. The agribusiness people prevent the information and data from coming through the government to the people by their lobbying. Just like they do against gun control and the climate crisis to the detriment of the people. It's all about the bottom line, the profits, the shareholders, and the CEO's and others in control.
All of our problems are interrelated; if everyone ate as recommended in the documentary, climate change would reverse itself!
I love that phrase because it is so true of so many. Where it may have been meant for the most cold hearted who never seemed to be smiling at the neighbors, it applies to most of us at some times and that is killing us, too, just most slowly.
How can our kids even bear to look at us with our comforts and conveniences and toys and wars which are all burning up their world?
Caste kills. Fear of caste privilege loss is probably driving the deaths of despair, IMO. See Isabel Wilkerson "Caste" for an excellent analysis of this.
Toss ageism into the mix and you’ll see what coverage is like under Medicare - Medicare is not free BTW. It isn’t cheap to get the supplemental insurance for better coverage; people with less money get less healthcare or pay more for the care they do get.
Thanks for this piece, RJ. You might have given passing mention specifically to HR 1976, the Medicare for All Act of 2021. While far from perfect, it's a solid, decent start — and a majority of House Dems are co-signers. It's stalled in part because no one is promoting it, and the public's attention is constantly drawn elsewhere.
Every mention is important. Imagine if this single-payer universal healthcare legislation got as much attention in the media — if only in passing, drip-drip-drip — as climate change does. Instead we have Mob-like omertà, the code of silence. Out of sight, out of mind. Thanks for listening.
I'm involved in training medical students. For what I sometimes wonder in our truly dysfunctional health care system.
You want to know what's killing us early? It's the standard American diet of high animal based foods and processed foods, taking advantage of the evolutionary drive toward sugar and animal fat. Yes, eggs too. The agribusinesses of dairy, beef, pork, and chicken continue to advertise with impunity that their products are healthy. They are not. Watch the documentary Forks over Knives for a good start at understanding the problem AND the solution. I've been woke about it for 7 years, having lost 45 pounds in 6 months with no addition exercise, and am asymptomatic with no prescription medications. I'm just past my 79th birthday, and my husband is 75, and the same. The agribusiness people prevent the information and data from coming through the government to the people by their lobbying. Just like they do against gun control and the climate crisis to the detriment of the people. It's all about the bottom line, the profits, the shareholders, and the CEO's and others in control.
All of our problems are interrelated; if everyone ate as recommended in the documentary, climate change would reverse itself!
I love that phrase because it is so true of so many. Where it may have been meant for the most cold hearted who never seemed to be smiling at the neighbors, it applies to most of us at some times and that is killing us, too, just most slowly.
How can our kids even bear to look at us with our comforts and conveniences and toys and wars which are all burning up their world?
Caste kills. Fear of caste privilege loss is probably driving the deaths of despair, IMO. See Isabel Wilkerson "Caste" for an excellent analysis of this.
Toss ageism into the mix and you’ll see what coverage is like under Medicare - Medicare is not free BTW. It isn’t cheap to get the supplemental insurance for better coverage; people with less money get less healthcare or pay more for the care they do get.
Thanks for this piece, RJ. You might have given passing mention specifically to HR 1976, the Medicare for All Act of 2021. While far from perfect, it's a solid, decent start — and a majority of House Dems are co-signers. It's stalled in part because no one is promoting it, and the public's attention is constantly drawn elsewhere.
Every mention is important. Imagine if this single-payer universal healthcare legislation got as much attention in the media — if only in passing, drip-drip-drip — as climate change does. Instead we have Mob-like omertà, the code of silence. Out of sight, out of mind. Thanks for listening.