Lets become educated people. The government has no interest in your health. And the nerve of the governments recent attack on Dr. Oz...SMH. According to Dr. Mercola, ever since 1933, every five to seven years the US Congress passes a set of legislative acts referred to as the Farm Bill, which includes agricultural subsidies to growers of certain types of food. These subsidies are in large part responsible for promoting and worsening the US obesity epidemic—a fact highlighted in a 2013 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. According to the authors, the root of the problem is that: Government-issued payments have skewed agricultural markets toward the overproduction of commodities that are the basic ingredients of processed, energy-dense foods. This includes corn, soybeans, wheat and rice, which are the top four most heavily subsidized foods. By subsidizing these, particularly corn and soy, the US government is actively supporting a diet that consists of these processed grains, namely high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), soybean oil, and grain-fed cattle – all of which are now well-known contributors to obesity and chronic disease. The Farm Bill essentially creates a negative feedback loop that perpetuates the highly profitable but health-harming processed food diet that the United States has become infamous for. The US government is actively promoting obesity and chronic disease through these subsidies, while simultaneously creating flawed and ineffective anti-obesity campaigns and programs to combat the very problems rooted in its agricultural policies!
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:00:02 +0000
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