Something doesn’t add up. The food industry professes that their products are balanced and nourishing. Fast food restaurants claim to load their menus with cheap, healthy alternatives. The FDA commands a $2.4 billion budget to keep our food safe. Yet one third of Americans suffer from clinical obesity and an estimated 65% of Americans are overweight. The economic impact 122.9 billion- in the last year alone.
More Americans will die of obesity related illness than from gun violence, alcohol and drugs combined.
The financial costs of obesity are staggering: some 117 billion annually in healthcare and lost wages in the U.S. alone. The “five a day” campaign to encourage Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables spends $2 million a year in promotion. McDonalds spends more than $1 billion and Coca-Cola spends $800 million on advertising. Exactly how much encouragement do we need to become obese?
Our intent here at thehealthfix.com is to inform you on the negative impact of commonly used items that you may be overlooking and provide alternatives in a convenient one stop shop for your health. You can get the skinny on how to truly lose weight and be healthy, locate an organic...
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Key minerals in food have decreased by 40% since 1940.
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Consider the following example: You would need to eat 5 apples today just to get the same amount of nutrients from eating 1 apple in 1965.
In communities that have the highest amounts of fluoride in their water supply, there are also the highest amounts of obesity and a host of other diseases.
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Ninety percent of the fluoride used to fluoridate U.S. water systems comes from the fertilizer industry and may contain trace amounts of various heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and arsenic.
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The U.S. spends more money on health care than any other nation with each person averaging over $4000.00 per year in medical expenses. Yet the U.S. ranks last for life expectancy among all industrialized nations.
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The World Health Organization estimates there are 500,000 pesticide-related poisonings a year.
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Medical treatment is now the leading cause of death in the US, with pharmaceutical drugs the main causative factor.
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Grains such as corn have been linked to cancer, depression, obesity, allergies, autoimmune diseases, diabetes and asthma. The human body was never meant to process corn, which has a horrific fatty acid profile; this skews the fat balance in the membrane of cells and negatively impacts cell function.
