GET OUT OF THE RAT RACE
“The beginning of true knowledge is when you begin to understand how little you know”
-Socrates
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Do you know that you are a laboratory test rat for big companies? The choices you make and what and who influences those choices are studied under a microscope every day by the top corporations of the world. The choices they study are the ones that your biology (your body) tells you to make like: what you eat, what you drink, why you smoke or drink, what you do when you are hurt, and what elective or non-elective surgery you’d be willing to have..
Rats make purely biological decisions. They do whatever their bodies tell them to do. However, God gave humans the capacity to think and make logical decisions about how to treat their bodies. Unfortunately, when it comes to dietary decisions approximately 61% of all Americans respond like rats to marketing, celebrity endorsements, T.V., medical doctors, friends, family, whatever their body craves, or they perceive moves them away from pain and towards pleasure. When it comes to health decisions the number increases to about 85%!
Phillip Morris, the world’s largest tobacco company, is now along with Nestle one of the largest food companies in the world. When the smoking and chocolate companies are also the biggest make of our nutrition, you know we’re in trouble. They both make junk- food.
Here’s a frightening thought; right now, in a Phillip Morris board meeting, top executives are drinking bottled water, eating a salad or some fruit, and reading your laboratory results telling them what it will take to get people to eat more potato chips, drink more soda, and how they can get more teenagers hooked on cigarettes. The deaths from the side-effects of these products are of such colossal magnitude, the numbers incalculable.
Many believe that there is an unholy alliance between the tobacco and food manufacturing companies and Big Pharma. It would be hard to deny as the products they make or endorse are responsible for billions of people becoming sick and obese then requiring prescription and over the counter drugs. The cycle then continues drug side effects in turn kill 100s of 1000s of people.
Drug company meetings work the same way; they are high fiving about the climb in the amount of children taking anti-depressants and the subsequent increase in their stock price. The athletes, doctors, and celebrities who promote the drugs and the junk food personally avoid the products they are touting. That is how they get and stay successful. They follow the Golden rule of “He with the gold makes the rules.”
I suppose these CEOs, COOs, CFOs, and board members justify the fact that “business is business” or “buyer beware.”
Perhaps they are correct – buyer should beware. They’re hired to sell products, increase the value of the company’s shares, and expand their influence around the globe. Our job is to be a human and not a rat. To step out of the rat race, research, think, and consider the results that have occurred due to letting marketing and the media influence our lives and culture.
I am blessed to be a Chiropractor and a lead a chiropractic lifestyle. I have been educated in the way my body functions, the terrifying side-effects of medications, and have learned the best lifestyle for my family to follow (Most of the time).
Knowing God created my body, I can make sense of what it naturally needs and the repercussions of putting into it what was not intended to be put into it. Uncommon sense tells me what to do and not a celebrity, politician, the Marlboro man, Ronald Mcdonald, an M.D., the Taco Bell dog, or CNN.
“You can not be common (a rat);
For the common man/woman gets nowhere,
You have got to be uncommon (a thinker).”
-Coach Herb Brooks, 1980 Olympic Gold Medal Miracle Hockey Team
With God, all things are possible,
Dr. Ben