Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctors Pharmacy.

It's very hard for people to feel like they have the ability to control their life and their destiny.

I think it's really tough to own that and you know,

scientific research is really clear about this. When you look, for example, at your socioeconomic status

and your risk of disease, some more of a risk than obesity or smoking or line exercising,

and the defining aspect of that is paralysis.

Hi, I'm Kaye Perot, one of the producers of the Doctors Pharmacy Podcast.

Research shows that your social environment, a lack of access to healthy food,

your level of education, and even the safety of your neighborhood to determine your health outcomes.

Yet when it comes to chronic disease, we often place a blame on the individuals.

In this many episodes, Dr. Hyman speaks with former New York City Department of Health Deputy

Commissioner Dr. Sonia Angel about the social determinants and the fallacy of personal choice

in our food system. You were part of the initiative in New York that said no more trans fats in the

deep friars. Right, and I think you know it because nobody goes into a fast food restaurant and says,

I want my french fries with trans fats in them. Like that's a false choice. We didn't ever have that

choice. It was put in there and we just received it that way. And when we talk about added sugar

or sodium, right? The vast majority of sodium in our diet is already in the food when you

purchase it. It's coming from processed and packaged foods. It's not what you're putting on at

the table. It's not the salt that you're putting in your food when you're cooking.

That seems to be the most difficult thing for me to tackle with because how do we start to push

the food industry to do the right thing? Yeah, I mean, the first thing that we need to acknowledge is

that the healthiest diet is one that's based on whole foods, not a processed food diet and not

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