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Toxic Foods And Worthless Diets
How large corporations have manipulated our hardwired metabolism for their profit, and how we can do the same thing for our health
Today in the developed world nearly everyone is fat. In the USA, eighty-six percent of adults are overweight and forty percent are obese. Fifteen percent of US children aged ten are obese. More than ten percent of US twenty-year-olds already have heart disease. US health care spending on obesity-related illnesses is more than half of all healthcare spending and now exceeds a trillion dollars per year.
As a result of being so big, we’re experiencing dramatically high rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, emphysema, type II diabetes, bone fractures, and a wide variety of aches and pains, plus all manner of unfortunate metabolic syndromes.
As a result of the inflammation that inevitably accompanies being overweight, fat people are also far more vulnerable to other diseases. For example, although worldwide it appears that more than 90% of people infected with SARS-CoV2 will experience no symptoms at all (World Health Organization data, August 11th 2020), fat people are at much greater risk of suffering symptoms and complications because of all the inflammation-related compounds circulating in their bodies.
