Addicted By Design: How Junk Food Companies Keep Us Hooked
Food companies have historically employed scientists to create junk foods that are not just delicious, but highly addictive. After all, the right combination of salt, sugar, and fat keeps consumers coming back for more. Even foods like chips are scientifically optimized to deliver the perfect amount of psychologically satisfying crunch. However, the advent of GLP-1 drugs, such as […]
The “Freedom” to Die Young: U.S. Declining Life Expectancy
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a paper that sounded the alarm about the rising death rates among children and teenagers. Among 1- to 19-year-olds, deaths have increased due to car crashes, homicide, suicide, and poisoning; findings were seen among all genders. Young people are dying from preventable circumstances, exposing the fact that […]
UPS Worker Gets Pushed to the Edge
On October 5, a UPS worker took her life on the job at a major sorting hub in Louisville, Kentucky. The incident is reported to have taken place immediately after she was fired for allegedly falling asleep on the job. After learning of her termination, she requested to step away to compose herself in the […]
Here’s what COVID does to your body when you’re vaccinated — and when you aren’t
If you were going to be in a fight for your life, would you want to be armed and ready or still fashioning your weapons after the enemy has attacked? That is my answer to NBA players like Beal and others who are still unclear on the reason for vaccination. Being unvaccinated means that you are unarmed and unprepared for an attack, with luck as your only weapon.
Profits Over People in Primary Care
COVID-19 is not the only virus that needs to be stopped, but also for profit healthcare