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Winters emphasizes how the food industry is complicit in this health-illness profit cycle. Through the use of food scientists, companies engineer products loaded with sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats to induce addictive behaviors. He explains that what is marketed as healthy in America often contains levels of sugar and additives that would overwhelm European palates.
This deliberate design leads to overweight, diabetes, and other chronic conditions — all of which require ongoing drug treatments, creating a perpetual revenue stream for pharmaceutical companies. Meanwhile, the FDA functions orbitally within this system, collecting fees from these corporations and turning a blind eye to the manipulation and harmful ingredients.