Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

Sales are going down for soda and processed food in

US and Europe, but they're dramatically rising in Asia,

Africa, Latin America, the Middle East.

And it's not by accident, it's by design.

Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy.

I'm Dr. Mark Heimann, and that's pharmacy with an F-F-A-R-M-A-C-Y.

A place for conversations that matter.

And if you care about what's happening around the world,

the explosion of chronic disease, the incredible burden on society,

our economy, our populations,

and you should listen to this podcast because we're going to talk about

how the food industry not only has made Americans sick,

but has made the world sick.

And what we can do about it, because there's lots we can do,

and there's lots of policy changes that actually is happening

that's very encouraging, and demonstrates a way for us to get out of this big fat mess.

Now, the truth is that the intentions and the underpinnings of our current food system,

our industrial agriculture and food processing system,

were actually pretty well intended.

There were a lot of diseases of hunger, starvation,

vitamin deficiency, there were rampant in the early 20th century.

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