Hospitals Feed Diabetics Jell-O and Coke
RFK Jr. pointing out that hospitals are handing diabetic patients literal sugar while they're admitted is one of those things that sounds insane until you've seen a hospital meal tray.
"A diabetic woman… was immediately offered… a Jell-O and a Coca-Cola."
"And a number of other foods that all contain sugar that are all gonna injure their metabolic system and aggravate their diabetes."
The broken clock gets one right. American hospital food is a scandal nobody wants to talk about because it's boring compared to drug pricing. But feeding a diabetic Coca-Cola is not a rounding error, it's a systems failure.
"We have the best doctors… and the finest hospitals in the world."
"But… they haven't recognized the most important tool of medicine today is good food."
RFK Jr. is right about this one specific thing, and the fact that American hospitals routinely serve diabetics sugar-loaded food is a genuine indictment of a system that profits from sickness.
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