Tucker Carlson: How big Pharma keeps you sick

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I have just seen the Tucker Carlson video

Calley & Casey Means: How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick, and the Dark Truth About Ozempic and the Pill

and would like to make some comments.

The lady, Casey, says that the situation in regard to the health of Americans is terrible and getting worse. She gives some statistics:

● 74% of adults and 50% of children are overweight wheresas 120 years ago almost no one was obese

● 50% of adults have either prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes and 30% of teens have it, whereas in 1950 only 1% of Americans had either prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes

● 25% of women are on an antidepressant

● 40% of 18 year olds have a mental health diagnosis

● The autism rates in children is now 1 in 36 whereas in year 2000 it was 1 in 1500

She says doctors are taught in school how to deal with health problems in their particular speciality but they are not taught to inquire into the cause of the problems. They are taught to treat the problems with surgery or by giving pills and in addition they are under great pressure by their employers to bring in money and process patients rapidly. She asserts Big Pharma has a tremendous influence on doctors and the way they think both in their medical school training and after they get out into practice through its sponsorship of research and through providing doctors with promotional information on their medications. Big Pharma exerts their influence in a number of ways and spends huge amounts of money doing it.

It is not unreasonable to feel that one cannot trust anything influenced by Big Pharma. The great dream of Big Pharma and all of its shareholders would be for 350,000,000 Americans to be taking 10 or 20 pills a day. That would bring in gigantic amounts of money. Big Pharma doesn’t care a whit about people. It only cares about making money. The sicker America is, the happier Big Pharma is. The more side effects their medications have, the sicker the patients become and the more pills they need.

What does Casey think is the cause of our health crisis? She thinks it is our toxic food system and toxic environment. She thinks the pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, etc. used by farmers have poisoned our food supply. (Farmers in the United States are allowed to use these things while farmers in Europe are not allowed to use them. Food prices in the USA are much lower than in the Europe because use of these things provides great efficiency and economy in the production of food.) Casey thinks a big cause of our problem is ultra processed foods. What foods are ultra processed? She says they are foods made with white flour, cane sugar, cottonseed oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil. At the end of the video she states that she only eats organic food which she buys at farmer’s markets. This includes organic fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, legumes, meat, poultry, eggs, game meats, etc.

We all know that organic foods are far more expensive than regular food. She feels it is a price we just have to pay.

What do I think about all this? I think America’s mental problems (40% of 18 year olds have a mental health diagnosis) are not related to food. They are spiritual in nature and are related to things like Americans abandoning the Bible and its spiritual outlooks, pressures such as those encountered in schools and on the job, bad effects of the internet and social media (like pornography), and drug use. In regard to physical health problems, I think obesity and excessive sugar and sodium intake has a lot to do with it. What causes obesity? How about overeating and eating the wrong things? I believe in common sense and that is what my common sense is telling me.

Over two thousand years ago the Greek physician, Hippocrates (around 460-380 B.C.) asserted that best way to good health was moderate diet and regular exercise and believed that the best exercise was walking. I think he was right. The idea of moderation in eating is not new. See the following:

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Three good meals a day is bad living.

Dine with little, sup with less:

Do better still; sleep supperless.

Eat few suppers and you'll need few medicines.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Many dishes, many diseases.

'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all

that follow it.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating --- 100,000.

Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry-

bellyache in the Punchbowl.

No wonder Tom grows fat, th' unwieldy sinner,

Makes his whole life but one continual dinner.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous

Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God?

labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection

to Reason.

See also

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ON LUXURY

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Luxury makes a man so soft that it is hard to please him and

easy to trouble him; so his pleasures at last become his

burden. Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.

Mackenzie

Fell luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksands,

poverty or chains.

H. More

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin

of every great state.

Livy

It was a shrewd saying, whoever said it, "The man who first

bought ruin on the Roman people was he who pampered them by

largesses and amusements."

Plutarch

Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of

republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal

slumber while it sucks the life-blood of our veins.

Payson

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

Young

Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we

supplied with everything that nature can demand then we sit

down to contrive artificial appetites.

Johnson

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress,

furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive

diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the

principles and judgments of men and women there is no knowing

where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral or

political, they will lead us.

John Adams

War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts

the body and the mind.

Crown

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I think the underlying cause of America’s health problem is bad habits. The automobile and the cheapness of sugar in our modern age has brought temptations that people of a hundred years ago simply didn’t have. I think a main source of the problem is all the delicious junk foods like Twinkies, Doritoes, chocolate cake, apple pie, Kentucky Fried chicken, donuts, soft drinks and countless similar things that present themselves everywhere that weak Americans just can’t resist. Of course one cannot trust any vender of anything. The prime interest of any seller is to make money — not concern for someone else’s health. See

On Health

I believe America’s health problems are all about personal self-discipline i.e lack of it. It is a foreign concept to most Americans.

Of course it is possible that the pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, etc. used by farmers could be causing health problems. But I doubt that that it is a significant part of the cause of America’s health problem. I think it is overeating and too much sugar, sodium, and grease. And I am not a person who spends money recklessly. I am not a person who would pay ridiculous prices for food without very good reason. I am 86 years old and still in excellent health. My personal regimen seems to have worked for me (and my wife).

7 Dec 2025