Who is Destroying the Health of our Youth?

We are not getting healthier, we are getting sicker. American children are predicted to not outlive their parents for the first time in history.

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Here we go. Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children -Malcolm X

Hello again. Ed Thompson here, and I hope this podcast finds you doing well. This is Buried Lede #24, entitled, Who is Destroying the Health of our Youth?

When RFK jr joined the Trump campaign and the MAGA movement he coined the phrase MAHA, Make America Healthy Again, and focused attention on an epidemic of major proportions here in America. Despite the advances in medicine and availability of treatments, despite the superior basic infrastructures that provide sanitation and drinking water for the vast majority, America has a decidedly unhealthy population. Poor health is epidemic.

COVID-19 exposed how low the baseline health is in America. During the pandemic nearly all the COVID-19 deaths were the elderly with age and disease weakened immune systems, or younger people with multiple co-morbidities including asthma, diabetes, and obesity. The fact is, people with disease or compromised immune systems are always vulnerable. What is alarming is that currently this group represents nearly 40 percent of the American population. That would be more than 140 million Americans.

Despite having the most advanced heath care system in the world, the US had the worst results from COVID-19. Despite spending the most money on health and medicine, the US has the least healthy population in the developed world. These two facts are not independent.

As a nation, we are not getting healthier, we are getting sicker. The worst of this tragedy is happening to our youth. The next generation of American children is predicted to not outlive their parents for the first time in history. The young generation is fatter, sicker, and have more fertility problems than any previous generation. Autism has gone from 1 in 1000 to 1 in 20 and is still rising fast. According to the American Cancer society, cancer diagnoses are spiking among the young as never before seen.

The buried lede is that we are actively destroying the health of our youth. It is certainly time to MAHA: Make America Healthy Again.

Because it didn’t stop the disease or transmission, and because the 25 and under demographic was in near zero danger from COVID-19, the COVID-19 vax was unnecessary for most young people. Yet, we have and continue to jab our youth as young as six months old repeatedly. Babies have gone into shock after COVID-19 shots, children and young adults have had severe cardiac events, and aggressive cancers rarely seen in the younger population have spiked. And still we jab.

And it’s not just the COVID-19 vax. The general vaccine schedule for children includes two vaccines at birth, eight at two months, four months, and six months, ten more at twelve months, and four more at fifteen and eighteen months of age. Twenty-seven shots before the age of two. There is a lineup required to get into kindergarten, and more throughout school. By the time they exit high school American children have had forty or more shots of eighteen different vaccines.

More children every year are put on strong, mind-altering medications. Over six million kids are now taking one or more of ADHD, Antidepressant, Antipsychotic, Mood Stabilizer, Anticonvulsive, Anti-Anxiety or Sleep-inducing medications. These are the broad categories. A short list you have probably seen in ads includes Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta, Prozac, Zoloft, Cymbalta, Elavil, Haldol, Abilify, Lithium, Xanax, Ambien and Lexapro. There are hundreds of drugs to choose from, with more created every year. Black box warnings on these heavy drugs are so numerous they require a separate large insert. While these drugs are supposed to be improving mental health, the rate of children and adolescents committing suicides and homicides has been steadily climbing as well. Doesn’t anyone care?

All these supposedly healthful medications are coming from Big Pharma companies that have been fined over 123 billion dollars since 2000 for false or deceptive practices, fraud, or for selling poorly tested drugs that turn out to be either directly harmful or highly additive and ripe for abuse. Big Pharma is destroying the health of our kids. This happens because Big Pharma has captured the agencies tasked with overseeing and approving the drugs. The FDA and NIH are so deep in bed with BigPharma that they are virtually indistinguishable, with personnel revolving back and forth. Big Pharma money finances much of the testing and oversight activities, a clear conflict of interest.

The food industry isn’t much better. Unless you live on a farm or grow your own food, you don’t stand a chance. Our grocery chains put empty-calorie processed foods on prominent display where kids can demand them from frazzled mothers. A recent Northeastern University study found that 70% of all the food products in a typical grocery store are ultra-processed with low nutritive value and artificial chemical additives. Europe outright bans ingredients that BigAgro in America prevents from even being put on food package labels. Is it any wonder we have unhealthy overweight kids?

Hormones in meat and dairy products disrupt the endocrine system and accelerate or delay puberty, wreaking havoc on our youth. Toxins like pesticides and chemical food additives contribute to declining health. Over 72% of kids under eighteen are either overweight or out of shape or both. The age-standardized prevalence of overweight or obesity in 2021 among children and young adolescents was 36.2% in males and 37.2% in females. Among older adolescents, the prevalence in males and females was 46.7% and 50.8%, respectively. And it only gets worse with age.

Do we fix or eliminate destructive food products and enhance nutrition, or expand physical exercise programs our children desperately need? No. The solution offered follows the medico-pharmaceutical profit model of only treating symptoms. Ozempic, a diabetes drug that alters hormone levels and intentionally disrupts the glandular system, was discovered to have a side effect of weight loss. Naturally, it is exploding as a quick fix for fat kids and fat adults who do not have diabetes. This has not been properly studied in long term, double-blind trials, but the already known potential side effects include thyroid tumors, pancreatitis, loss of vision, hypoglycemia, gallbladder issues, and kidney failure. Does that sound like making America healthy?

The toughest thing to confront is evil. Our medical establishment, Big Pharma and the government agencies that are supposed to improve and protect our health are instead destroying health. Doesn’t get much more evil than that.

And that’s the buried lede.