‘Food Fix’

Dr. Mark Hyman’s latest book reinforces everything we at OCA believe in and work toward, which is this: If we fix our food system, we can improve global health, revive economies, end poverty and social injustice, restore environmental health and reverse climate change.

“Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet—One Bite at a Time” came out in February, before most of us knew much about COVID-19.

We’ve since learned, among other things, that people with chronic diseases—including diet-related obesity and diabetes—are considered high risk for getting the virus in the first place, and for having worse outcomes if they get it.

Here’s what Hyman wrote, pre-COVID-19:

“Chronic disease is now the single biggest threat to global economic development. Lifestyle-caused diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer now kill nearly 50 million people a year, more than twice as many as die from infectious disease. Two billion people go to bed overweight and 800 million go to bed hungry in the world today. One in two Americans and one in four teenagers have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes.”

We obtained permission to reprint the introduction to “Food Fix.” We hope you’ll read the whole book—and then encourage your friends and family to do the same.

Read the introduction to ‘Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet—One Bite at a Time’

GOF HALL OF SHAME

‘Coronavirus Hunter’

Guess what year this ScienceDaily headline appeared:

“New SARS-Like Virus Can Jump Directly from Bats to Humans, No Treatment Available.”

If you guessed 2020, you’re wrong. The article was published in 2015. The source was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

That’s where scientist Ralph Baric, Ph.D, and a team that included Baric’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) colleague, Shi Zhengli, used genetic engineering and synthetic biology to create a “new bat SARS-like virus . . . that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans.”

Baric is known as the Coronavirus Hunter. Zhengli’s nickname is Bat Woman.

The two are scientists whose work involves collecting samples of the nearly 5,000 coronaviruses in bat populations and manipulating them for the sole purpose of making them more infectious to humans.

Ostensibly, the research Baric and Zhengli conduct is intended to help scientists get ahead of any coronavirus that might have the potential to emerge as a human pathogen.

The reality is this: There is little evidence that this research has prepared us to meet the challenges of the current COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, there are suspicions that the research may have caused the virus.

There’s also ample evidence that Baric has strong ties to Big Pharma—thanks to laws that allow researchers at publicly funded universities to commercialize their research.

Read ‘Dr. ‘Coronavirus Hunter’ Ralph Baric: Preparing Us for a Pandemic? Or Putting Us in Peril of One?’

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