Life Expectancy Falling -- Let Them Eat Cake

NOT A BIG SURPRISE -- WHEN MEDICAL CARE IS A FOR PROFIT INDUSTRY--
Push snacks and joke about boring vegetables and make sure consumers know that they deserve sweets. Snack and drive your cars to the gym and snack and golly why is there an obesity problem and snack and have some fries and a milkshake and some chips and some soda and discuss why your kids are fat and have some dessert (you deserve it). The snacks come with an added bonus-- more consumers for your prescription drugs. And they are a really special new group of consumers we call patients. Make 'em special, make 'em feel connected to their special subgroup with an up close relationship with their diseases-- gotta take care of MY cancer, MY diabetes, like their pets. Aw, have a snack. Have some soda. The country needs you. Gotta have more sick people. Make sure all the chemicals in our daily lives are evaluated separately-- then we can call them safe. Generally Recognized As Safe, GRAS, is the term. Avoid measuring interactions. Just process more and more food to make it more convenient-- "chop and drop into crock pot" was way too complex a recipe it seems, so now we have frozen, preserved and bagged crock-pot-ready concoctions to spare us that tedious chopping and thinking. And let's cram more chemicals into our skincare products too. Rub 12 chemicals with a dab of cucumber onto your skin to keep you young. Then you've got a great toxic soup that could lead to all kinds of conditions that we can prescribe a whole bunch of new pills for and then we can make pills to counteract the side effects of those pills and and and. Medical care is an exciting profit center and growth area (not just the tumors!) -- we can build the market base by feeding them cool super-seasoned easy food and drink and they're gonna pay for it all ! Heck, we even convinced them to use aluminum byproducts in their toothpaste and slather aluminum on their armpits to stop that nasty sweat-- what's a little brain damage if you've got those pristine teeth and dry armpits, eh? And as long as we keep conducting studies so aluminum toxicity is still "under debate," we'll be fine. Golly gee, if people like sugar and hate fiber, let them have it. That's the free market at work, building the medical consumer base. Gotta keep growin' the sickies, so let 'em eat cake before they serve society by taking their insulin shots for their diabetes. And hey, let's offer them free syringes.