It is easy to see that industries everywhere abuse the natural wealth of the Earth to make a quick profit. A little more subtle – but far more profitable – is how pharmaceutical companies abuse the natural health of the human body to make a quick profit, by breeding dependence on drugs. This natural health includes physical and mental, as well as spiritual resistance to disease. The CDC reports that fewer physicians counsel their obese patients to lose weight ~ of course they don’t because the patients will then just go to another physician. Besides, obese patients have many more medical problems than fit ones and they keep coming back for treatment, and sometimes even require very expensive procedures.