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What’s cheap, cheers you up – and could be killing you?

September 23rd, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Andreas Whittam Smith
The Independent
September 23, 2011

The tobacco manufacturers have long been vilified. More recently, brewers and shops that sell cheap booze have found themselves in the dock. Now steps forward a third party for condemnation, the manufacturers of food. Between them the three groups are held responsible for a set of illnesses that cause more deaths than all other causes combined.

These ailments have an inelegant name: non-communicable diseases – the ones you don’t catch from someone else. You don’t usually see them; these are the problems, often hidden, that people carry with them through their apparently normal lives until their conditions become death-threatening rather than merely life-shortening.

The main non-communicable diseases are heart disease, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory conditions. It seems obvious also to include obesity in this category, now officially a worldwide epidemic. But its consequences in terms of heart problems and diabetes are in the primary list. And it is obesity more than anything else that brings food manufacturers into the court of public opinion.

In a recent study, The Lancet, probably the world’s leading general medical journal, stated that the obvious possible drivers of the obesity epidemic are to be found in the food system: the increased supply of cheap, palatable, energy-dense foods; improved distribution systems to make food much more accessible and convenient; and more persuasive and pervasive food marketing. These qualities are exactly what many people all over the world want. For whatever else they do, readily accessible food, alcohol and tobacco cheer you up. We feel better. That is one of the reasons why non-communicable diseases are such an intractable problem.

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4 Responses to “What’s cheap, cheers you up – and could be killing you?”

Food has been just as available and even cheaper in the past. This article is saying we’re unhealthy because we have it too good and we need to lower our standard of living, just like the NWO wants us to believe. The truth is, the “food” they’re selling us is garbage and the government will never make any laws when they would actually protect the people. That’s the problem. This article is garbage and I’m not too sure why Infowars would even want to post it here?
Wow, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the UN and this is Alex’s doesnt even mention it. What a racist whore Alex is? Why doesnt he talk about it? Who is paying him? He’ll talk about all sorts of BS, but when it comes to the Palestinians and the war crimes Israel is commiting, no way. You suck Alex!!! Your a sell out to Zionist interest!
- Whaaat The FuuuuK?? Theres a full speech video,, dipshit,,
‘What is cheap cheers you up and is killing you’ also applies to cheap goods made in China. All the plastic garbage sold at places like WalMart that comes from China is killing America.

We live is a really really really crappy society now. Not only are jobs in short supply, wages are god awful, the food is rubbish, the society has become one massive consumer society, the quality of goods sold in America is god awful, everything is plastic junk (including the food).

God damned… I’m not even that old and America has really gone to shit in my life time. It must be really horrible for the older people to see how much it has fallen.