#malnutrition
Too much, much too fast.
I debated posting this kind of thing so many times in the past couple of months. It seems important, though. Starving while surrounded by abundance of food and a culture of over indulgence is a strange and terrible thing.
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Inspired by my friend Kristen on Instagram to do a little #bedrestmodeling. Although, not technically in bed, and as you can see, malnutrition/poor diet is taking its toll on my skin. Really, I just like to annoy the people who irrationally hate selfies and/or sick people who still find courage in their appearance! Bam!
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Capitalism in action:
Step 1: Three companies come to control nearly all of the baby formula market by driving out or buying up competitors.
Step 2: One of the three, which holds 43% of the market, declines to replace its old and failing drying equipment, leading to rapid bacteria growth that resulted in four babies dying from infection after consuming the formula.
Step 3: The company, Abbott Laboratories, recalls its biggest formula brand. This leads to a massive shortage and panic as parents of infants drive hours looking for stores that have any in stock.
Step 4: Babies are gonna die from this, particularly the ones in poor households.
Capitalism will always lead to shit like this, because capitalism requires continuous growth and at some point you can’t grow any more without becoming a monopoly. The system requires the death of infants.
Legislatures love capitalism. Legislatures also love a monopoly that pays state taxes. Legislatures would love to appear to address this problem, then not.
Bonus: approx 1 in 133 have Celiac disease. It usually isn’t tested for in menstruating people because blood loss AND Celiac both cause iron-deficient anaemia, and it’s easy to blame your stupid period than to do ONE (1) blood test specific for glutamase. Celiac is an auto-immune condition, different from a wheat allergy or intolerance (BOTH common in infants, btw!)
What do you think many formulas are made from?
Yep. Wheat or gluten-filled products.
So what happens when your baby is always sick with random digestive issues, spends hours screaming, is eating but somehow becoming more and more malnourished if the intestines stop taking up nutrients due to intestinal death from wheat exposure?
maybe…… you’ll get reported for child neglect? and have your kids seized?
maybe something that mainly targets low-income people and racial minorities?
would that, perhaps, be a felony in many places? places where felons, perhaps, can’t vote?
hmmmmmmm
Babies hospitalized in South Carolina because of formula shortage
Oh hey, look! Babies are being out in the ICu because people tried to make 80 year old formula recipes going around on facebook or dying because of… EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK I said would happen! Autoimmune and allergic reactions!
Another article talks about women driving to up to 20 stores, daily, just to find formula. Breastfeeding for millions is not an option. Besides biological issues, MANY common medications pass on in breastmilk, so a baby can be poisoned with, say, heart medications or asthma meds. Common stuff.
The eugenics programs have been here. It’s just finally spread to poor white babies.
Nutrition again.
I’m in remission - like most of you know - and I’d call myself healthy (okay don’t mind the 6 pills at breakfast). I eat well and exercise a lot. I get my period and my weight is stable.
It’s like my body forgot about the long time being malnourished. NOPE. It didn’t.
I participated in a nutrition/exercise research work at my university (which included labs, body composition, weight…) and I was quite disappointed when I got the results. Last time someone checked my body composition (another IBD trial) the muscle mass was dangerously low, my bone mass sucked and my overall body composition showed signs of being long-term-malnourished even though I was just borderline underweight.
But now that I’m at a healthy weight, in remission for about 18 months and running/eating a lot (& gym) I did not expect that my body still had such low muscle and bone masses and still showed signs of malnutrition.
The disappointment changed into hope and motivation after I thought about it for some time. Small progress is still progress. And all good things take their time. So I’ll keep on working hard and I will keep in mind that bodies don’t forget what they’ve been through.
I just wanted to share this lesson with you guys because it was important to me and maybe it’s important for you, too. Especially in a time where everyone seems to be aiming for fast changes.
Besides this I’m just grateful that I can do lots of things that seemed so far away or even unarchievable just two years ago. Sometimes things even change for good when you almost lost hope.
