High Fructose Corn Syrup is straight up sugar crack
You and you and you all best believe that!
I saw you take that one liter soda off the rack
Put it right back
Because obesity will sneak up and attack
In the 1980s, crack plus black pushed an entire community back
That was wack
But in 2016, it’s the same story, Jack
Minority communities running rampant with the Big Mac
Or the box with jumping Jack
Or a King who makes it your way like he’s got ya back
But the BMI is so high you can’t even see your back
Or your arteries are clogged with that nasty plaque
You might as well get ready for a potentially fatal heart attack
I can’t even believe that
Then they put the blame on them because they can’t make it around the track
And not on the multiple resources that they lack
This is so wack
I’m not taking what I said back
CDC got all the statistics in a stack
Piled so high, they are falling off the rack
And every year, they will continue to increase until we act
This is wack
No, I’m not smoking crack
Or throwing that liquor back
The only thing coming out of my mouth is fact
In 1977, McGovern tried his best to get us off this track
But all the lobbying food industries (junk, diary, meat, salt and sugar)……..that entire rat pack
Came out the woodwork and they all clapped back
For them the profit is gold and your life don’t mean jack
My hand can’t get to their faces fast enough to smack
I’m so over the effectiveness we lack
In “trying” to bring the nation’s health back
With dietary guidelines that need a whole lotta feedback
With hospitals vending every type of snack
Children television advertising all kinds of junk and crap
Foods that glow in the dark and create dental plaque
and never ever ever ever grow mold like that
This game needs a new quarterback
A totally new plan of attack
because to be quite honest
At this point, this is just BEYOND wack
And I am not about to just sit back
And watch lives unnecessarily fall through the cracks
I don’t find it too hard to tell folk to tone down the fat back
And the oreo snack pack
But you got have the relationship and the tact
Or your patients will be out the door with their knapsack
And the American and global culture need a comeback
They need to have the desire to want to bring health back
We should be hunting down chronic disease like a wolfpack
I want folks to get their lives back
And if that means I might catch some flack
Come at me homie because research has got my back
Akesson et al 2012 in particular can tell you that
Most heart attacks disappear if the burger gets put back
Monetary and political interests need to fall the hell back
And the power of the people and their interests needs to come back
Mic drop
Now tell me can you handle that
Marsha-Gail Davis, MS4
