Calley Means about the connection between food industry and healthcare

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"The food industry with their own set interests want to make food addictive and cheaper. It kind of make sense. The criminals Devil's bargain is that it's highly tied to the healthcare industry...the fastest growing industry in America right now isn't AI, it's not tech, it's healthcare. It's the largest and fastest growing industry...the best thing for that industry is a child getting sick. When a child gets sick or any American gets sick with a chronic condition, with diabetes, obesity, kidney disease, heart disease...they go on a lifetime medication...and they keep racking up more comorbidities. If you're diabetic you have an average of 4 other comorbidities. So you keep racking up, but you don't die, you just suffer. You inevitably get infertility, depression, you start racking them up. So that's very good for the medical system, to have these chronic conditions that need to be managed. Just from pure economic stand point, that's how the system is set up. That's all happening largely because of our food system and other metabolic habits, but largely because of our rise of ultra processed food that's really hacking ourselves and really hijacking ourselves. The criminal part, the devil's bargain is that the healthcare system you'd expect to be speaking out about why we're getting so sick, but they're not only silent...they're actually complicit..."

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