by Matt Weik, BS, CSCS, CPT, CSN
I’m simply going to forewarn you… this text goes to set off some individuals. And for the sake of public well being, it must be stated.
Should you comply with my content material, you realize I’m an open e book, and I converse my thoughts based mostly on what I see in entrance of me. With regards to the general public well being catastrophe we’ve seen unfold during the last decade (or extra), main change is required.
And after I say main change, I imply we have to completely intestine these within the authorities who refuse to take motion and assist public well being enchancment.
Want an instance?
Go searching. Do individuals look more healthy than they did 20 years in the past? Nope. If something, issues have gotten worse. Weight problems charges are via the roof. Power ailments are at an all-time excessive. And what’s being executed about it? Not a lot — except you depend handing out extra prescribed drugs as an answer (spoiler: it’s not).
Public well being officers (those calling the photographs) have executed little to enhance our nation’s well-being. As a substitute of pushing for higher diet and train, they’re busy maintaining the pharmaceutical trade booming. It’s time to scrub home and eliminate the people who find themselves failing us.
On this article, I’m going to mild the fuse and assist everybody perceive that public well being is about to blow up. If change doesn’t occur, we’re going to see extra deaths from poor existence and well being decisions than ever earlier than. And so as to repair this epidemic within the US, we have to hearth the individuals in cost.
Disclaimer: This text is for informational functions solely and isn’t meant to deal with or diagnose any situation. It’s endorsed that you simply converse together with your physician earlier than beginning any train program, making modifications to your diet plan, or including any new dietary supplements into your present routine.
Public Well being Ought to Be About Well being — Not Capsules
Let’s be actual. The American healthcare system isn’t actually about well being. It’s about treating signs, not stopping illness. Massive Pharma loves this technique. You get sick, they promote you a drug. You develop unwanted effects, they promote you one other drug for that. Rinse and repeat.
You perceive this, proper?
In the meantime, public well being officers barely point out the stuff that would truly stop illness — like consuming actual meals and shifting your physique. Why? As a result of there’s no cash in wholesome individuals. A nation hooked on prescriptions is much extra worthwhile than one which doesn’t want them.
What We Have to Do to Make America Wholesome Once more
First off, bringing in RFK Jr. goes to utterly shake up the system. In truth, he’s already firing individuals, which is superb. We have to hearth each single individual within the authorities who has a job within the well being of the American individuals and is failing at their position.
If we truly care about public well being, we have to shift the main focus. Right here’s how:
1. Repair Our Meals Provide
Ever learn the ingredient checklist on packaged meals? Half of it seems like a science experiment (and that’s as a result of it’s). Have you ever ever questioned why substances and meals within the UK are banned attributable to well being issues, but right here within the US, we push them as a lot as these lethal vaccines?
There’s a cause!
Synthetic components, seed oils, and sugar in every thing. It’s mind-blowing the variety of chemical substances that different international locations have banned, however America nonetheless permits in our meals. It must be sufficient to have you ever hate and mistrust the federal government.
We’d like stricter laws on what’s allowed in our meals and drinks. No extra reducing corners for revenue whereas individuals get sicker. If it’s banned in Europe, it shouldn’t be in our grocery shops. Interval.
2. Make Diet a Precedence
The meals pyramid? What a joke. I uncovered this horrid “information” a number of years in the past in a number of articles I printed. The federal government’s diet recommendation? A multitude. And take a look at most people in our authorities. Would you are taking well being recommendation from them?
Hell no!
We’ve been informed to worry fats, load up on grains, and belief processed “wholesome” meals. And the place has that gotten us? Extra weight problems, extra diabetes, and extra well being issues throughout the board.
Almost 50% of American adults are thought-about overweight nowadays, with round 75% of adults within the US being chubby. You may’t inform me these are good statistics.
The federal government is failing us!
It’s time to rewrite the playbook. We have to educate individuals on consuming actual, entire meals — protein, wholesome fat, fruits, and greens. No extra meals trade affect on what will get labeled as “wholesome.”
3. Make Train Non-Negotiable
If there’s one factor that may dramatically enhance public well being, it’s train. But, most Individuals barely transfer. The advice? Not less than 150 minutes of moderate-intensity train every week. That’s half-hour, 5 days every week. Completely doable.
However as a substitute of encouraging individuals to train, we’ve created a tradition of comfort. Escalators as a substitute of stairs. Automobiles as a substitute of strolling. Screens as a substitute of out of doors play. It’s time to make motion a part of each day life once more.
And cease making the excuse that you simply don’t have or can’t afford a health club membership. You may get wholesome proper within the privateness of your individual house via body weight workout routines and cardio exercises so simple as strolling round your neighborhood or up and down your stairs.
4. Hearth the Individuals Who Are Failing Us
If public well being officers have been operating a enterprise, they’d be fired for incompetence. The well being of Individuals has been declining for many years, but they preserve pushing the identical failed insurance policies and nonetheless get a paycheck.
That should finish and finish proper now!
We’d like leaders who truly prioritize well being over earnings (enter RFK Jr.). Individuals who advocate for clear meals, actual diet, and train — not simply extra prescriptions.
If present officers can’t do this, they should go. Easy as that.
The Public Well being Catastrophe Is at a Tipping Level
America is getting sicker yearly, and the individuals in control of public well being are doing little to cease it. As a substitute of specializing in prevention, they push extra medicine.
As a substitute of cleansing up our meals provide, they let firms pump out low cost, unhealthy merchandise.
The answer? Hearth those who’re failing us and herald individuals who truly care about making America wholesome once more. We’d like a public well being system that prioritizes actual meals, each day motion, and prevention — not simply symptom administration. It’s time for a change.