"Make America Healthy Again"
Dr. Ray Strang, author of Death by Prescription, stated, “We are living shorter and dying longer.” This is sadly true for almost everyone in the United States and the industrialized world. But this is only possible if you are kept ignorant or, when informed as to why this is occurring, you are too complacent or too comfortable with the status quo that you are not about to change anything.
Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged, stated this: “It is a moral sin to participate in your own self-destruction.”
I would like to add that one of the big reasons why we are living shorter and dying longer is something that you have control of and are capable of fixing. So I would state, “Every bite you eat or drink you take is moving you closer to illness or health. There is no neutral ground.” A friend and fellow doctor liked to say to his patients, “It’s your body, it’s your health, it’s your choice.” This article is about choices.
Thomas Carlyle, a popular Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher (1795-1881), said, “If you have health, you have hope, if you have hope, you have everything.”
Robert F. Kennedy, in his recent speech announcing his withdrawal from this year’s presidential race, said the following extremely important things. (His entire speech can be downloaded, and I would advise everyone to read it in its entirety.) These are his key statements about our health:
“As you know, I left that party (Democrats) in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, big tech, big Ag, and big money. When it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I ran as an independent.”
“I’m here to tell you that I will leverage your tremendous accomplishments to serve the ideas that we share, the ideas of peace, of prosperity, of freedom, of health, all the ideals that motivated my campaign.”
“Furthermore, our polling consistently showed that by staying on the ballot (in) the battleground states, I would likely hand over to the Democrats with whom I disagree on the most existential issues, censorship, war, and chronic disease.”
“Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures, we changed the national political conversation forever. Chronic disease, free speech, government corruption, breaking our addiction to war, moved to the center of politics.”
“I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children above all things. In case some of you don’t realize how dire the condition is (of) our children’s health and chronic disease in general, I urge you to view Tucker Carlson’s interview with Calley Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, who is the top graduate of her class at Stanford Medical School.”
“This is an issue that affects all of us far more directly and urgently than any culture war issue and all other issues that we obsess on and that are tearing apart our country, this is the most important issue, therefore it has the potential to bring us together.”
“So let me share a little bit about why I believe it’s so urgent today. We spend more on health care than any country on Earth, twice what they pay in Europe, and yet we have the worst health outcomes of any nation (in) the world.”
“We’re about 79th (in) health outcomes behind Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mongolia and other countries. Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have. And during (the) Covid epidemic, we had the highest body count of any country in the world. We had 16% of the Covid deaths, and we only have 4.2% of the world’s population. And the CDC says that’s because we are the sickest people on Earth.”
“We have the highest chronic disease rate on earth, and the average American who died (from) Covid had 3.8 chronic diseases. So these people had immune system collapse, had mitochondrial dysfunction, and no other country has anything like this. Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues. 50 years ago that number was less than 1%.”
“74% of Americans are now overweight or obese, and 50% of our children are.”
“Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or type two diabetes. When my uncle was president, I was a boy, juvenile diabetes was effectively non-existent!”
“A typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career, a 40 or 50-year career. Today, one out of every 3 kids who walk through his office door is diabetic or pre-diabetic, and the mitochondrial disorder caused diabetes, also causing Alzheimer’s, which is now classified as diabetes, and it’s (costing) this country more than our military budget.”
“Every year there’s been an explosion of neurological illnesses that I never saw as a kid, ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette’s Syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, Asperger’s. Autism. In the year 2000, the Autism rate was one in 1,500. Now, autism rates in kids are one in 36, according to CDC; nationally, nobody’s talking about this.”
One in every 22 kids in California has autism, and this is a crisis that 77% of our kids are too disabled to serve in the United States military. What is happening to our country, and why isn’t this in the headlines every single day?”
“There’s nobody else in the world that is experiencing this. This is only happening in America.”
In my generation of 70-year-old men, the autism rates were about one in 10,000. In my kids’ generation, it's one in 34. I’ll repeat, in California, one in 22. Why are we letting this happen? Why are we allowing this to happen to our children?
"About 18% of American teens now have fatty liver disease. That’s like one out of five. That disease, when I was a kid, only affected late-stage alcoholics who were elderly. Cancer rates are skyrocketing, and in the young and the old, it's up 79%."
"One in four American women is on antidepressant medication. 40% of teens have a mental health diagnosis, and 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall, with half a million children on SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)."
"So what’s causing this suffering? I’ll name two culprits. First, and the worst, is ultra-processed food. About 70% of American children’s diet is ultra-processed, meaning industrially manufactured in a factory. These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils."
"Laboratory scientists who formulated many of these ultra-processed foods formerly worked for the cigarette industry, which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and 80s. They deployed thousands of scientists to figure out new chemicals to make food more addictive. And these ingredients didn’t exist 100 years ago. Humans aren’t biologically adapted to eat them."
"Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe but are ubiquitous in American processed foods. The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies."
"These assaults on our children’s cells and hormones are unrelenting. To name just one problem, many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children are ingesting so many of these hormone disruptors, America’s puberty rate is now occurring at age 10-13, which is six years earlier than girls were reaching puberty in 1900. Our country has the earliest puberty rates of any continent on Earth."
"Breast cancer is also estrogen-driven and now strikes one in eight women. We are mass poisoning all of our children and adults."
"...Minority communities suffer disproportionately. People who worry about DEI or about, you know, bigotry of any kind—this dwarfs anything. We are systematically poisoning minorities across this country."
"Industry lobbyists have made sure that most of the food stamp lunch programs, about 70% of food stamps, and 70 or 77% of school lunches, are processed foods. There’s no vegetables, nothing that you would want to eat. We are just poisoning the poorest citizens, and that’s why they have the highest chronic disease burden of anybody, any demographic, in our country, and the highest in the world."
“The same food industry lobbied to make sure that nearly all agricultural subsidies went to commodity crops that are the feedstock of the processed food industry. These policies are destroying small farms, and they’re destroying our soil. We give about, I think, eight times as much in subsidies to tobacco as we do to fruits and vegetables.”
“It makes no sense if we want a healthy country. The good news is that we can change all this. We can change it very quickly. America can get healthy again. To do that, we need to do three things.”
"First, we need to root out the corruption in our health agencies. Second, we need to change incentives in our health care system. And third, we need to inspire Americans to get healthy again."
“80% of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest. Joe Biden just appointed a new panel to NIH to decide the food recommendations, and they’re all people who are from the industry. They’re deciding what Americans hear is healthy and the recommendations on the food pyramid, and what goes to our school lunch programs, the Swiss program, and the Food Stamp programs.”
“They are all corrupted and conflicted individuals. These agencies – the FDA, USDA, and CDC – are all controlled by giant for-profit corporations. Seventy-five percent of the FDA funding doesn’t come from taxpayers; it comes from pharma, and pharma executives, consultants, and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies.”
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