The American Food System Creates Chronic Diseases; The Medical System ‘Manages’ Them
November 03, 2024 | Source: Resilience | by Kurt Cobb
The explosive growth in the use of weight-loss drugs is a supreme irony within a food system that creates the very chronic diseases that lead to obesity and a medical system that “manages” those conditions with no intention of actually curing them. In fact, “manage” is too kind of word for this setup for the truth is, medical treatment of chronic conditions more often than not just perpetuates these conditions and sometimes makes them worse.
I rarely do book reviews, but I believe Metabolical may be the most important contemporary account of the nexus between modern diets, chronic illness and ecological ruin. So, I’m going to give you a taste of what’s in it (pun intended).