Natural prevention faces off against pharmaceutical cures.
The USDA is revising its nutrition guidelines. Critics of past federal guidelines, which favored high carbohydrate diets and were compromised by industrial food producers, are closely scrutinizing the new regulations because they advocate “reducing focus on chronic disease risk reduction” and more on “improving the lifespan.” This oxymoronic shift from prevention to cure pervades many modern medical areas. Are conflicts of interest at play?
Americans are now some of the fattest people in the world, and the health consequences are well documented. Sedentary lifestyles and diets of ultra-processed food, unhealthy fats, and the dubious chemical additives that accompany them were reducing Americans’ life expectancies before COVID-19 and the fentanyl pandemic….
