Seventy percent of the food you buy at the supermarket is processed. Processed foods have been linked to cancer in several studies. Of course, correlation does not mean causation. Which means eating processed foods may be because people are too lazy to cook and are getting cancer for another reason.

How about this. In insurance, there is something called “Moral Hazard”. This means that when we think we are going to be protected from some bad outcome, we actually behave in ways that will increase the probability of that outcome.

In cities where laws have changed to force people to wear seat belts, for example, people drive a little more dangerously. There are more accidents. Scientists believe that because people are buckled up, they feel more secure and don’t feel like they need to be extra careful.

How about this. They have shown studies indicating that in cities where access to doctors increases, people live less healthily. Which means that they subconsciously know that since they have access to a doctor, they don’t need to be as careful about how they live their lives.

What about this? We have politicians on TV all the time convincing us that we have a “right” to health care. That may be true, but if we believe that health care is our right, we will be less likely to take care of ourselves.

Wait, it gets worse. Every night we watch television. Lulled into an open state of hypnosis. And guess what we see? Lots of ads, you guessed it. And guess who pays for 70 percent of the advertising on television? Pharmaceutical companies. Big billion dollar pharmaceutical companies that convince us that every problem we have can be solved by taking some kind of pill.

Let’s put it all together. We eat mostly processed foods that have been linked to cancer. We are being mesmerized by our televisions and our politicians that it is not our job to stay healthy. Which means that big corporations are brainwashing us into being as unhealthy as possible. Why is this? Are they trying to kill us, or just squeeze every dollar they can get out of us before we die an untimely death?

Either way, things are not good if you expect other people, like the government, to take care of you.

Nobody really cares about you like you do, so start taking better care of yourself!