You came back from the United States with a higher glucose reading and a new respect for the humble sauce label. That is the correct order of learning: body first, ideology later. Americans do not wake up and decide to pour sugar into barbecue sauce out of moral weakness. They do it because sugar is cheap, useful, and—most importantly—because it sells. The part that should bother you is not that … Read the rest
People like “strong leadership” for the same reason people like a single pill that fixes diabetes: it feels clean, it feels decisive, and it lets you stop thinking about the messy parts—diet, adherence, side effects, long-term damage. The problem is that politics, like medicine, punishes magical thinking. Fast action is not the same thing as correct action, and the price of being wrong at scale is paid in blood, debt, … Read the rest
