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Fast Eddy's avatar

I am so terrified of being caught up in the medical system that I have not eaten fast food or touched a soft drink in decades.

Since this Covid bs I've got full sparta... my one vice - sugar in coffee -- has been eliminated.

I exercise daily.

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A Midwestern Doctor's avatar

One of the major things the medical system has tried to foster in the population is a general aversion to self care so they perpetually require medical care to be better. The tragic thing is many doctors don't want to practice medicine that way, but they are forced to because the culture encourages unhealthy lifestyles.

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Troll Hunter's avatar

Yes, lack of personal responsibility towards one's good health as a result of spending the greater part of one's life chasing the Almighty U.S. Dollar as well as various and sundry dubious pass times is a huge problem. People make fun of you if you spend two hours a day doing things that make and keep you fit.

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KM's avatar

Yup. They've even come up with a term for those of us who are interested in and follow healthy eating - orthorexia.

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Troll Hunter's avatar

Figures. How hilarious-- we really should make T-shirts that read: "Orthorexia: A medical term applied to people who choose to eat foods free from Big Ag, Big Pharma and military contractor aerosolized poisons dispersed in the atmosphere, and Big Government controls."

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Fast Eddy's avatar

I suppose if they encouraged healthy lifestyles the pension system would go bankrupt and that would open a whole other can of worms

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

There actually is some truth to that. Several years ago, if I recall the article correctly, Netherlands commissioned a study that showed that people who lived a healthy lifestyle into old age were a greater net cost to the public pension/health care system than folks who didn't take good care of themselves.

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TomL's avatar

Or in a quite perverse way all the sickcare spending is regarded as "good for the economy".

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Troll Hunter's avatar

The proverbial can has been opened. The EU wants to up the retirement age and howls went up from the French. Here you can retire later and you're rewarded for the delay.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Your comment would be a great basis for a dedicated article.

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Troll Hunter's avatar

Catherine Austin Fitts did in fact cover this topic back in 2009 with her post titled "The Swine Flu-- What I Believe," at her solari.com website. Last I checked it's still up.

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Miriam Maxander PhD's avatar

This is sad but very true.

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DC's avatar

Bingo. Eliminate fast food. Eliminate processed food (canned/boxed/bottled) as much as possible. And yes, the almighty "simple sugar", which I used to lump on my cereal as a kid, must be eliminated.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

Comment: even absent the terror, you have taken the very steps that probably have -- by far -- the greatest influence on your chances of keeping or obtaining good health. Sensible diet, avoid or at least minimize the known or likely harms, exercise, perhaps get you 90% of the odds favoring good health. That last 10% available from the medical system -- if you can navigate it cautiously, which requires self-education, enlightened doctors, ideally both.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

We need an alternative healthcare system тАж it pays for sickness not healthтАж. ItтАЩs pitiful.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Fast Eddy ... IтАЩm just like you.... and I am doctor.

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Fast Eddy's avatar

My close circle of friends are lawyers/barristers with a handful of finance types... they are all in the circus and fully Rat Juiced... only one has stopped - only because of my-o-my-caridtis... after shot 2.

The only close contact I have who is 100% anti Rat Juice (other than my wife) is my brother. He is an architect.

I in a few ice hockey beer leagues -- most of the players are tradies -- as far as I know all of them are Rat Juiced (I was booted during the mandates)

I suppose I would be classified as a former small time entrepreneur who realized that we were f789ed and on borrowed time after GFC... and mostly retired at 42 to pursue other interests

Circus or barnyard animals ... end of the day the only difference is one group has more training.

I am reluctant to say one is more intelligent than the other ... cuz I don't think humans are intelligent... no other animal grows it's population to 8B on the back of a finite resource... which when it is no longer available there is no fall back - they all starve.

Not only that .. but this species celebrates the pillaging of their only home ... consider when a company goes public -- basically they have worked out how to successfully compete in the pillage -- the founders take to the podium at the stock exchange -- ring a bell - pop Champagne and celebrate their pillaging -- and they get paid big time -- and use that to buy private jets yachts and all that jazz..

And the mob idolizes them cuz they are rich... so smart ...

Applauding and envying them ... when the reality is ... they are running the species off a cliff ...

Every innovation from farming to financial innovation --- runs the herd closer to the cliff -- and extinction

And we think this is intelligent behaviour. I see it as stupidity.

A bird being able to migrate thousands of miles without GPS... so that it can avoid winter and death... now that is intelligence.

Humans are idiots -- I imagine we'll be the species that goes extinct in the shortest period of time.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

You got it right Fast Eddy тАжтАжno bones about it . ЁЯШЮ

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