Seventy percent of the food you buy in the supermarket is processed. Processed foods have been linked to cancer in several studies. Of course, correlation does not mean causation. Which means eating processed foods may be because people are too lazy to cook and are getting cancer from another cause.
How about this. In insurance, there is something called “moral hazard”. This means that when we think that we are going to be protected from a bad outcome, we are actually behaving in a way that will increase the probability of that outcome.
In cities where laws have changed to force people to wear seat belts, for example, people drive a little more dangerously. There are more accidents. Scientists believe that since people buckle up, they feel more confident and do not feel the need to be more careful.
How about this. Studies have shown that in cities where access to doctors is increased, people live less healthy. Which means that they unconsciously know that since they have access to a doctor, they don’t need to be so careful about how they live their lives.
What about this? We have politicians on television all the time convincing us that we have a “right” to health care. That may be true, but if we believe that health care is our right, we will be less likely to take care of ourselves.
Wait, it gets worse. Every night we watch television. Sleepy in an open state of hypnosis. And guess what we see? Lots of ads, you guessed it. And guess who pays for seventy percent of television advertising? Pharmaceutical companies. Big billion dollar pharmaceutical companies that convince us that all the problems we have can be solved by taking some kind of pill.
Let’s put it all together. We eat mainly processed foods that have been linked to cancer. We are being hypnotized by our televisions and our politicians that it is not our job to stay healthy. Which means that big corporations are brainwashing us into being as unhealthy as possible. Why is this? Are they trying to kill us, or just squeeze every last dollar they can out of us before we die prematurely?
Either way, things are not going well if you expect other people, like the government, to take care of you.
Nobody really cares about you like you do, so start taking better care of yourself!
