Dr. Frita
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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And at first, you know, if we would have conversations saying, oh, they're trying to take us back to Jim Crow, that seems really like hyperbolic or just really like, oh, you're just exaggerating.
But now you're starting to see how you can be marched back to Jim Crow and perhaps even, you know, free emancipation proclamation if something is not done.
And yes, that can make you sick.
So it is absolutely correct to say that the environment that we are in with the current administration, and I haven't even gotten into the economy is causing stress.
Stress is a silent killer.
It's a cardiovascular disease.
Yes, and what when I first became a physician, you know, all bright eyed, bushy tailed, not completely realizing the realities of privilege versus not having privilege.
I remember there's one patient in particular.
I talk about her in my book Under Pressure Got to Control High Blood Pressure.
I had told this patient with high blood pressure that she needed to eat fruits, vegetables, everything leafy green, avoid ultra processed foods, just say, I told her what to do.
She should do it and everything will be fine.
And when she followed up, her blood pressure was still high.
And so I, with my little young self is telling her, Hey, you didn't do what I said, ABC and D. And she told me that she was down to her last money, her last food stamps.
We call it snap now.
And with that, she bought a loaf of bread, a package of processed meat, like salami and like a two liter orange soda, something like that, because that's what she could afford.
And it let me know right then that needs to approach things differently because
right there it made it clear to me that the economy what you can afford and what you cannot afford directly affects your health right we're always talking about oh everyone should exercise and these you know people who are on snap these welfare queens should not be allowed to have sodas with their snap but guess what if you're not providing them with the either transportation to get to farmers markets or whole foods and if you're not providing them with the amount of money that it takes to buy organic foods leafy green vegetables then you're
you're sitting there and not really getting the point, or perhaps you are getting the point, and perhaps the punishment is the point, perhaps the cruelty is the point.
When you have a society where the economy, the socioeconomic factors imbalance like they are now, those on the lower end of the totem pole, the economy affects health.
It leads to diabetes, high blood pressure, stress.
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