Are Your Medications Safe?

[djean111]

13. My brother had juvenile diabetes, and my daughter-in-law lost her pancreas in a truck accident

when she was 12, so, yes, I know that insulin is life-saving if your pancreas cannot produce it.

What I am talking about is the way Americans have been boondoggled into eating more and more carbs in the nefarious name of "low fat". And then the health care INDUSTRY fattens itself on the resulting obesity and all the treatments. And then the treatments spawn side effects that require even more treatments.

I used to work in Japan. Nothing as eye-opening as the first day back here, after a month or two in Tokyo, and going to the grocery store. The huge people, and the huge shopping carts, full of processed carbs.

I see no reason to blindly trust the food industry or the health industry. Their profits depend on stuffing us and then treating us for the results of that. Aren't we told that Capitalism is a GOOD thing? Well, this is what happens with unregulated capitalism - the profits become vastly more important than people. If I don't know where to draw the line on what I put into my body, because of insufficient labeling, and secrecy - then that line becomes pretty exclusive of most things. That is my RIGHT, to do that. People who don't want labeling are really saying that I have no right to know exactly what I am eating. Fuck that.