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New food pyramid website has a chatbot skeptical of its own content

How trustworthy is the new U.S. food pyramid? It’s a mixed bag, according to the government website devoted to that pyramid. Kyle Diamantas, head of the human foods program at the Food and Drug Administration, aler…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #ai #chronicdisease #ChronicDiseases #nutrition #obesity #publichealth
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2508230/new-food-pyramid-website-has-a-chatbot-skeptical-of-its-own-content/

Salon: "AI #nurses" as "good as any doctor": #RFKJr. confirms he wants to take away people's #healthcare
He argued that people on food assistance should have their options reduced so they can't buy processed foods. #snap
...but it does creates an excuse to deny health care by claiming that they made themselves sick

His view that sick people did it to themselves and deserve what's coming to them offers a nifty justification for Republicans' long-standing desire to deny health care to millions of Americans. Kennedy may dress this up as "prevention" or concern for children, but the message came through loud and clear: Medical patients are parasites who suck up resources from better, more responsible people
Instead, Kennedy blamed "chronic disease," a vague category that encompasses a cornucopia of ailments like "#autoimmunediseases, #neurodevelopmentaldisorders, #asthma, #Alzheimer’s, #ADHD, #depression, #addiction" and, with special emphasis, #diabetes. I'll leave it to the experts and fact-checkers to explain how badly he misrepresented the diverse causes of these conditions. What matters here is the rhetorical purpose "#chronicdisease" plays: Blaming the victims, and creating the pretext for taking their health care away.

Under prolonged badgering, Kennedy all but admitted he thinks care should be denied if your past behavior wasn't "healthy" enough. "Free speech doesn't cost anybody anything, but in health care, if you smoke cigarettes for 20 years and you get cancer you are now taking from the pool. Are you guaranteed the same right?" Kennedy snapped at Sanders

But this must be seen in the larger context of Kennedy's constant refrain: Most illnesses are a result of what people eat, so almost any health problem can be blamed on "personal choices," especially when you're as divorced from scientific facts as Kennedy is.

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/30/ai-nurses-as-good-as-any-doctor-rfk-jr-confirms-he-wants-to-take-away-peoples-health-care/

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