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Mom | Scientist (PhD Biochem) | Health | Education | Also on X | Here to understand why we can't talk to each other
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There is an easy solution: stop eating absolute junk and fix your healthcare system. Also: stop killing each other at such a high rate.
December 6, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Last year, Coca-Cola spent $327 million on advertising in the US while it raked in $9.5 billion in profits.
 
Not one of their ads will tell you that a 20oz bottle of Coke contains more than 15 teaspoons of sugar.

It’s time to take on the greed of the food & beverage industry.
December 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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We waste hundreds of billions a year on health care administrative expenses that make insurance CEOs and wealthy stockholders incredibly rich while 85 million Americans go uninsured or underinsured.

Health care is a human right.

We need Medicare for All.
December 5, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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T0a: Not surprisingly, adults with diabetes have 2-4 times increased cardiovascular risk compared with adults without diabetes #NephJC

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....
December 4, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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For decades, the food and beverage industry has made massive profits by enticing children to consume unhealthy products purposely designed to be overeaten.

The time has come for the FDA to stop dragging its feet on addressing the obesity and diabetes epidemics in America.
December 3, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens
South Korean soldiers attempting to enter the National Assembly repelled by a fire extinguisher and camera flashes.
December 3, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Vaccines work.

Pharma lies all the time and has really shit all over its credibility.

Both these things can be true.
December 5, 2024 at 1:19 PM