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appalachiablue

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Tue Jan 27, 2026, 06:25 PM Tuesday

Sick By Design: How America Turned Food Into Disease 🍏 [View all]


- Offended Outcast. Welcome to the Sickness Economy Series. (12 mins). 🍕 🌽

Modern food didn't fail on accident. It changed on purpose. In America, the cheapest calories are the ones that hurt us, and the expensive ones are the ones that nourish us. That isn't a mystery. It's an incentive.

Over the last 50 years, real food was slowly replaced by "products," shelf stable, addictive, convenient, engineered for profit and quietly harmful in ways that didn't show up overnight. You don't drop dead from a cereal box. You just get a little sicker every year.

And while the government pointed a finger at "personal responsibility" the food industry quietly turned nourishment into a business model, and our bodies carried the cost... Read More under * Description in the YouTube link above.
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