Posted on 03/15/2025 2:37:53 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The American Heart Association is throwing its weight behind soda and junk food—literally. Instead of supporting legislation that would prevent food stamps from being used on sugary drinks and processed snacks, the AHA is fighting it. Why? Because it takes money from the very companies selling these products. Pepsi, Kellogg’s, and other big food corporations pump cash into the AHA, and in return, the organization defends policies that keep their products moving off the shelves, even at the expense of public health.
The proposed legislation is simple. It aims to stop Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits—taxpayer-funded assistance—from being used to buy products that contribute to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. This should be a no-brainer for a group claiming to fight heart disease. Instead, the AHA is standing with the junk food industry.
This isn’t a new problem. The AHA has been taking money from big food and beverage companies for years. Between 2011 and 2015, the group, along with other so-called health organizations, accepted sponsorships from Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. That money wasn’t charity. It was an investment in influence. Now, when policies threaten the bottom line of these companies, the AHA steps in—not for public health, but for its corporate donors.
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As in all things; follow the money.
The USDA should get rid of food stamps entirely.
Let the states do it for their own citizens. It will be far better managed that way.
RFK Jr and Casey and Calley Means are right.
Boxes of beans
Boxes of cheese
Boxes of powdered milk
Neither the federal government nor the state governments should give anything like a cash equivalent to the poor. You want something like cash? Work.
Food stamps should provide the basic foods people need to survive. No snack sizes, no desserts, no candy, soda, etc.
Watched a rerun of First 48 the other night.
A brother bought two fellow brothers each a soda at QT with his EBT card.
Then they went across the street and he shot one of them in the back in broad daylight which was caught on one of the QT’s security cameras.
Good news it was in Tulsa which has the highest case clearance of homicides in the country.
He in the jailhouse now, doing life.
The AHA is almost as health-oriented as the American Cancer Society.
Number one proponent for food stamps is the food industry. Time to knock that shit off.
No snacks, no pop, no candy, no steak and lobster…..
Same corruption associated with the infamous “food pyramid.”
https://wearechief.com/en-us/blogs/articles/the-corrupt-history-of-the-food-pyramid
You might think that what you’re looking at here [the food pyramid] is a work of science that back in the 1970’s, scientists without vested interests, methodically reviewed the science to determine the healthiest diet. And then presented this to the public.
Unsurprisingly, this didn’t actually happen.
Most of us are acutely aware that science and politics shouldn’t mix and yet they’re inseparable.
The fact is when we mix science with politics, we get politics and the food pyramid is a product of politics.
The backdrop to the story of the food pyramid begins in post war 1950’s America, deaths from competing causes, namely war and infection had drastically reduced.
And at the same time, rates of smoking were increasing. As a result, heart disease rapidly became the leading cause of death.
And on this backdrop in 1955 President Dwight D Eisenhower suffered a heart attack.
He was out playing golf in Denver when he felt what he thought was an episode of indigestion from a hamburger. And later that night, he worked with severe chest pain.
So, his personal physician, not realizing he was having a heart attack gave him several shots of morphine and sent him back to sleep.
It was only after an ECG was performed after he awoke at 1pm the next afternoon that it was understood that he’d in fact had a heart attack.
This was major news which struck a nerve with the US population. The life of their leader, due for re-election, was on a knife’s edge with heart disease, the new leading cause of death. The President and the American population was gripped by fear so, the hunt was on for the root cause of this deadly scourge.
Unfortunately, scientists of the day didn’t seem to pay too much attention to Eisenhower’s heavy smoking. Reported to be up to four packets a day. Indeed, this was in an age when doctors themselves promoted smoking.
Rather, the scourge of heart disease was attributed to dietary saturated fat. And if you’re a plumber, this might make sense - after all, pouring fat down a sink can block a drain the rest of us...
Continued: https://wearechief.com/en-us/blogs/articles/the-corrupt-history-of-the-food-pyramid
Personally...I don’t care about Soda...I drink Milk and Coffee....but I do think that scrubbing deserts...like cakes and candies....is over the hill.
No they should make it food stamps again and get rid of the CC!
Great article and posts. BUMP! MAHA
“ Indeed, this was in an age when doctors themselves promoted smoking.”
I remember sitting with my doctor and while he is examining me, we’re both smoking. I remember him quoting to me from an episode of the odd couple. “More tea, less rice.”
You realize that those are welfare programs for farmers that allow the the fed to take a centralized approach to agriculture, right?
Your plan ultimately is to give money to global agriculture organizations like Tyson and Monsanto.
You still think that the egg problem has something to do with a virus?
I used to have A relative who worked for a state agency that dealt with food stamps and what not. And she said that you would be amazed at how many people were actually worth millions but collected food stamps because their annual income was low enough to qualify.
The Iron Law of Bureaucracy has prevailed at the AHA. Not surprising, they have been around for a while.
Oh, SNAP.
Should’ve seen this coming. Smh….
Most of these advocacy groups are little more than protection rackets.
The system is designed to rip off the taxpayers.
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