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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton GOES TO BAT For GMOs At Biotech Conference [View all]proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)22. And yet...
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APRIL 2014
APRIL 2014
http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/10/22/the-toxic-triad-how-big-food-big-farming-and-big-pharma-spread-obesity-diabetes-and-chronic-disease-across-the-globe/#close
The Toxic Triad: How Big Food, Big Farming, and Big Pharma Spread Obesity, Diabetes, and Chronic Disease Across the Globe
by Mark Hyman, MD
Last Updated October 22, 2010
ONE THIRD OF OUR ECONOMY THRIVE ON MAKING PEOPLE SICK AND FAT. Big Farming grows 500 more calories per person per day than 25 years ago because they get paid to grow extra food even when it is not needed. The extra corn (sugar) and soy (fat) are turned into industrial processed food and sugar-sweetened beverages combinations of fat, sugar and salt that are proven to be addictive.
These subsidized ($288 billion) cheap, low-quality foods are heavily marketed ($30 billion) and consumed by our ever-widening population with an obesity rate approaching three out of four Americans. The more they eat, the fatter they become. The fatter they become the more they develop heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a myriad of other chronic ailments.
Today, one in 10 Americans have diabetes. By 2050 one in three Americans will have diabetes. The sicker our population, the more medications are sold for high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, and many other lifestyle driven diseases. The Toxic Triad of Big Farming, Big Food, and Big Pharma profits from creating a nation of sick and fat citizens.
This structure is built into the very fabric of our economy and culture. It could be called the medical, agricultural, food industrial complex. It is what is known as structural violencethe social, political, economic and environmental conditions that foster and promote the development of disease.
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The Toxic Triad: How Big Food, Big Farming, and Big Pharma Spread Obesity, Diabetes, and Chronic Disease Across the Globe
by Mark Hyman, MD
Last Updated October 22, 2010
ONE THIRD OF OUR ECONOMY THRIVE ON MAKING PEOPLE SICK AND FAT. Big Farming grows 500 more calories per person per day than 25 years ago because they get paid to grow extra food even when it is not needed. The extra corn (sugar) and soy (fat) are turned into industrial processed food and sugar-sweetened beverages combinations of fat, sugar and salt that are proven to be addictive.
These subsidized ($288 billion) cheap, low-quality foods are heavily marketed ($30 billion) and consumed by our ever-widening population with an obesity rate approaching three out of four Americans. The more they eat, the fatter they become. The fatter they become the more they develop heart disease, diabetes, cancer and a myriad of other chronic ailments.
Today, one in 10 Americans have diabetes. By 2050 one in three Americans will have diabetes. The sicker our population, the more medications are sold for high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, and many other lifestyle driven diseases. The Toxic Triad of Big Farming, Big Food, and Big Pharma profits from creating a nation of sick and fat citizens.
This structure is built into the very fabric of our economy and culture. It could be called the medical, agricultural, food industrial complex. It is what is known as structural violencethe social, political, economic and environmental conditions that foster and promote the development of disease.
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A lot of my DU friends strongly support HRC, but I cannot accept her past choices.
NYC_SKP
Jul 2014
#1
Well, she has evolved from being dead broke to millionaire by entertaining the corporations.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2014
#39
H. Clinton has made it clear that she is the corporate choice for the Democratic nomination.
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#3
You are lucky. But that kind of thinking will continue to see the lower classes decline.
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#62
Put your faith in Monsanto, Sygenta and their ilk - they control the "science" you swallow
Crowquette
Jul 2014
#38
why would anyone give your opinion on this any weight when you don't even know the
cali
Jul 2014
#118
"Who gives a shit... that doesn't matter... you don't need people's opinion on a fact"
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#119
EXCITING NEW PRESS RELEASE - "Republication of the Séralini study: Science speaks for itself"
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#54
Dr Arpad Pusztai endorses GMWATCH.org so I follow & trust their vetting by virtue of his life story.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#67
No parallel, no MSM support anywhere. Imagine witnessing this whirlwind as a scientist or living it.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#74
WHO, AMA, The Royal Academy of Medicine, European Commission, etc. are not working Monsanto
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#95
Platitudes don't cut it though they sell stuff. Nuanced, but demonstrably and irrefutably wrong x5.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#97
No, Gung Ho GMOers are the left's Climate Change Deniers.. if you want to bring in Climate Change.
Cha
Jul 2014
#80
So? Science says GMO makes frankenfood and is full of Scientific Poison not Good for the Environment
Cha
Jul 2014
#83
the activists that claim all the resistance to such is because monsanto has something to hide.
redruddyred
Jul 2014
#117
If money matters, anyone can be a corporate shill and still tell you otherwise. Always watch
roguevalley
Jul 2014
#5
HRC: Blue Dog, Corporate ConservaDem, War Hawk, Triangulation/Bi-partisanship, DLC/Third Way, finger
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2014
#7
I see your corporate meme, and raise you one from human beings, not corporate citizens
Crowquette
Jul 2014
#30
NEW: Study suggests potential association between "soy formula" and seizures in children with autism
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#75
Embedded link I included states 90% of US soy is GMO but, of course, actual verification needed.
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#92
"actual verification needed" if those who believed in such woo-hoo would actually live by that.
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#96
Oh, it's both. Where are the long term animal feeding studies demonstrating safety?
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2014
#45
They probably were done some or even many but when the test data dosn't come out like they wanted
nolabels
Jul 2014
#70
do you have any proof WHO, AAAS, AMA, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Medicine....
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#102
so you avoid the question and instead give more conspiracy speculation and anecdotes.
wyldwolf
Jul 2014
#113
Thanks for speaking truth. "drought resistance" is a standard lie of GMO propaganda pimps !!!
Crowquette
Jul 2014
#100
unfortunately, what with hmos and such, there have been a number of bad incentives in medicine
redruddyred
Jul 2014
#65
walked by a drug store this morning and looking in the front door the first thing you see is Pepsi
KurtNYC
Jul 2014
#32
No doubt, Hillary is so impressed with GMO foods, and their benefits, she backs lableling them.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2014
#37
When I saw the article a few days back about Warren campaigning for Grimes, I wondered
winter is coming
Jul 2014
#78