These 10 Powerful Forces Run the World

7. The founders of the WHO

In 2002, a report was issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in which it was stated that the amount of sugar taken in by a person should not exceed 10% of the total calories that are taken by anyone in one day. This led to the protest of the sugar making companies. At direct stake were major players like PEPSI and Coca Cola as well. Therefore the sugar companies enlisted senators from the sweet states to apply pressure on the WHO so that the report could omit this clause. In the subsequent report issued in 2004 by WHO, there was no mention of the 10% cap. So not only the people who fund the WHO are amongst the 10 powerful forces that are running the world. They are also players when it comes to the welfare and wellbeing of people.

6. American Psychiatric Association Board Members

The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association consists of twenty members and together they vote on which revision gets accepted into the DSM which is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Inclusion or exclusion into the DSM influences legislation, research funding and health care coverage and it also governs what is a personality disorder and what is not. So let’s say if anxious depression is not included into the DSM based on the voting, it might affect on the coverage it gets in someone’s medical insurance! In this way the American Psychiatric Association is heavily ruling what can be imparted to a person owing to his or her mental state. According to WHO, 350 million people worldwide suffer from at least one form of depression. Go figure!