🍽️ Inside the Food Fight: How Big Food, Bad Science & Broken Policy Are Destroying Our Health
- ketogenicfasting
- Feb 3, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: May 15
We are amidst a metabolic health crisis—one that’s hijacking our biology, disrupting our cells, and making us overweight, depressed, infertile, and chronically ill. 💔🧠
🔥 What’s Really to Blame?
Our broken food system—and the politics that protect it—lie at the root of this silent epidemic. For decades, we’ve been steered toward profits over people:
🥖 Processed grains
🍭 Refined sugars
🌻 Seed oils
🥤 Sugar-sweetened beverages
The result?
A perfect storm of inflammation, insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. This isn’t accidental—it’s incentivized.
🧬 The Next Generation at Risk
Perhaps the most heartbreaking outcome of this crisis is its impact on our children.
👶 Nearly 25% of kids meet the criteria for pre-diabetes.
⚠️ 40% are clinically obese.
This is the price of letting Big Food and Big Soda write the rules.
🎙️ On the Dhru Purohit Podcast: A Truth Bomb with Calley Means
On a powerful new episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, health advocate and whistleblower Calley Means shares the inside story of how soda giants like Coca-Cola manipulated government policy to keep sugary drinks in federally funded nutrition programs. 🥤💸
🚨 His now-viral tweet exposed how he “saw inside the room” where corporate power stopped sugar taxes and rigged the system from the top down.
🧠 What You’ll Learn:
🧵 Calley's viral tweet and the soda industry’s hidden agenda
💡 The biggest lie: “Health is complicated”
🧠 The link between ultra-processed foods and mental illness
🇺🇸 Why our food system crisis is beyond political lines
🤝 A non-tribal, bipartisan call for policy change
💉 The controversy around Ozempic, the so-called miracle drug
🍽️ Why doctors aren't incentivized to help you get healthy
🧬 How Calley’s mother’s sudden cancer diagnosis changed his view on modern medicine
🔄 The moment Calley chose to reclaim our health narrative
🛒 How his company, TrueMed, plans to let Americans buy real food and fitness with FSA/HSA dollars
📨 How to follow Calley and subscribe to his eye-opening newsletter
FSA (Flexible Spending Account) and HSA (Health Savings Account) are special savings accounts in the U.S. that let you set aside pre-tax money to pay for qualified medical expenses. Here's a quick breakdown:
🏥 FSA (Flexible Spending Account):
Offered by employers
Use-it-or-lose-it (funds often expire at year-end)
Covers medical, dental, vision, and sometimes dependent care expenses
Doesn’t require a high-deductible health plan (HDHP)
💳 HSA (Health Savings Account):
Only available with a high-deductible health plan (HDHP)
Funds roll over year to year
Can be invested and grow tax-free
Covers a wide range of medical expenses
✅ Both accounts:
Use pre-tax dollars, saving you money
Help pay for things like prescriptions, doctor visits, and now—through programs like TrueMed—healthy food, fitness equipment, and lifestyle tools when prescribed by a healthcare provider for chronic conditions
💥 Meet Calley Means
🎓 A graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School, Calley once worked as a consultant for Big Food and Pharma. Now, he’s blowing the whistle on the systems that weaponize our trust in science and medicine.
He’s the founder of TrueMed, a company redefining how we use health savings to actually stay healthy. And along with his sister, Dr. Casey Means, he’s coauthoring a groundbreaking new book on Food as Medicine.
✊ The Takeaway
We don’t need more medication—we need liberation from a rigged system. Education, empowerment, and access to real food can turn this crisis around. 🍎💪
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