“Stated bluntly, this a national disgrace, because this problem is one with dire consequences that we could fix any time we genuinely committed to doing so.”
The following report is by The Trends Journal:
Americans have the highest rate of chronic diseases in the world as obesity continues to skyrocket since the 1980s—with 42 percent of adults and 18 percent of youth who fit into this category.
The trend has given way to the development of the so-called “obesity-industrial complex,” which is a play on President Dwight Eisenhower’s “military-industrial complex.”
Ben Bartee, an independent Bangkok-based journalist, wrote in The Daily Bell that there are clear similarities between the two and “much like the military-industrial complex, in which weapons contractors launder scare stories through the media to induce support for more war, which they profit off of, the obesity-industrial complex benefits from perpetuating chronic disease because that’s how their bread gets buttered….
