How food companies and pharmaceutical giants sacrifice our health for their profits.
Health is becoming increasingly expensive. One of the main reasons is industrially produced, cheap and unhealthy foodstuffs, which lead to diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and excess weight. So why don’t we eat healthy, good quality food and as a result reduce the cost of fighting lifestyle illnesses, asks Hans-Ulrich Grimm. Because food companies and the health industry earn well from this untenable situation! This sobering answer is the result of his worldwide research. Germany’s no. 1 nutrition critic starts by describing how decisions are made regarding the quality and condition of industrially produced foodstuffs - a billion euro game between big food and big pharma. And politics plays along with it, coming down on the side of being unhealthy.
