This video discusses the declining state of health in America, attributing it to a "sick care" system rather than true healthcare. The speaker highlights how ultra-processed foods, environmental toxins, and conflicts of interest within government agencies like the NIH and FDA contribute to rising rates of chronic diseases, obesity, and mental health issues. The video also touches on the economic burden of this health crisis and calls for changes in policy and individual choices to improve health.
Key Takeaways
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The speaker promotes a "Heavenly approach" to health, focusing on foundational elements like restorative sleep, daily movement, stress management, positive mindset, proper eating, and avoiding environmental toxins.
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Current data shows that 75% of Americans are overweight, 45% of children are overweight, and over 93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy, with 60% having a chronic disease due to ultra-processed foods.
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The country's mental health crisis, including depression and anxiety, is linked to toxins and ultra-processed foods consumed over generations.
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The U.S. healthcare system spends $4.3 trillion annually, with one in every five dollars going to healthcare, yet life expectancy has decreased, ranking 60th globally.
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Government policies, such as the SNAP program, contribute to poor health by allowing 75% of purchased food to be ultra-processed and 10% to be soda.
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The speaker argues that the U.S. has a "sick care system" where industries like big agriculture, big insurance, big food, and big pharma profit from chronic diseases.
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The prevalence of chronic diseases has skyrocketed from 6% in the early 1960s to 54% in 2006, and these changes are attributed to epigenetics and environmental triggers like toxins and ultra-processed foods, not genetics.
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The NIH is criticized for having conflicts of interest, as its scientists can collect royalties on drugs they help develop and regulate, shifting its function from asking health questions to being a "biggest incubator of pharmacy."
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Healthcare insurance systems are incentivized to treat illness rather than prevent it, often reimbursing for expensive treatments but not for intensive lifestyle programs or preventive care.
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Despite spending trillions on healthcare, the U.S. ranks poorly in life expectancy, child and maternal mortality, and chronic disease compared to other nations.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what is hot in the news what's
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new in research or anything that can
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help us lose weight feel great or most
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importantly live longer better we really
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aim for all three because they go
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together from my
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perspective I come at it with the
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Heavenly approach H EA ven that stands
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for all the things that are really
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foundational of Health in America that
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we've gotten so far away from the six
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fundamentals restorative sleep moving
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every day Stress Management positive
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powerful mindset eating properly and of
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course avoiding all the toxins in our
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environment that cause cancer cause
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diabetes cause obesity neurological
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problems lower IQ and the epidemic of
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autoimmune disease mood problems just to
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name a few things that these toxins
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cause we've got some work to do some
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real statistics that underscore the
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decline in American Health current
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government data says that 75% of
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Americans are overweight 45% of kids
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from the latest data and over 93% of
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Americans are metabolically unhealthy
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which is what my latest 10-day challenge
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called the Mya challenge making you
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healthy again really targeted the root
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cause behind you name it high blood
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pressure
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cholesterol high blood sugar weight
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heart attack stroke everything all those
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things we really went after it 60% of
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Americans have a chronic disease because
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of the ultr process food that's taken
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over in the last 30 years and that's
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really the driver for metabolic Health
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it's also creating the country's Mental
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Health crisis I am shocked every week
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how many people are looking for natural
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relief for their struggle with
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depression
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anxiety violence and even aggression all
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because of the toxins and the food we're
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eating and have eaten for several
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Generations lowfat high sugar I mean it
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goes on and on in how this is costing
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you and your loved ones your best life
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every day it's reducing your energy and
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your
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happiness now the economic contest Co
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cost is also staggering you know as far
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as what this does to our economy to deal
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with the national budget with
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$4.3
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trillion spent on Healthcare now one in
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every $5 in our economy goes to
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healthcare not to mention the loss in
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productivity even our life expectancy
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has gone down with the largest year drop
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over the last two years in our entire
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history we are far below other nations
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we rank 60th in the list of life
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expectancy what's being called as the
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death Gap is affecting our Midwest and
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the South life expectancy and lifespan
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has decreased ined
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57% since 1980s because of the increased
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rates of diabetes and obesity and food
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stamps the government accountability
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report on cost using nutrition let's
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look at how our government policies are
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making us sicker and increasing health
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care costs in a small voice they say
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Don't eat sugar and then on the other
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hand with the snap or the food stamp
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program 75% of the food purchased is
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ultr processed food 10% of it is soda
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pop the FDA commissioner says our life
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expectancies are going the wrong way but
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what are they doing about
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it if we had regulatory agencies that
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were really interested in looking at
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data we'd be trying to figure out why
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all the mortality for Americans has
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increased and it's not just covid deaths
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but they don't they you know so you can
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see we really don't have a health care
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System we have a sick care system and
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those who profit most big egg big
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insurance with
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Kickback big food big Pharma they just
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perpetuate the system that benefits from
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chronic disease I remember growing up in
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the 1960s President Kennedy was a real
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inspiration for health for discipline
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for courage and all those admirable
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qualities I mean he was a world hero a
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real war hero whose PT boat as some of
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you will remember was
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destroyed and he towed by his teeth an
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injured crew man to an island so they
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could be rescued later his speeches were
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so inspiring for American an to be their
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best if he would look at Americans today
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he would be in shock cuz we are so sick
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the Obesity when he was in presidency
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was about 13% and he was trying to get
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Americans healthier he had the
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President's Fitness Council I think he
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started it now it's
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45% 75% of us overweight that's three
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out of four in the early 1960s only 6%
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of Americans had Chron chrc Disease by
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1986 that was
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11.8% then in
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2006 we are at
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54% and we really don't know what the
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numbers are right now because the NIH is
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kind of filtering the numbers because
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public health is declining so fast in
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our country I mean from 6 to
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11.8 to 54%
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something is going south really fast and
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we know it's not genetics that takes
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millions of years it's epigenetics it's
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all the things our genes are exposed to
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that's causing these epidemics all these
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chronic
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diseases obesity neurological diseases
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ADHD add you know all these things
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autism
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narcolepsy these just didn't exist when
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I was growing up there was like one kid
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in the back of the class the rest of us
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31 kids sat hands folded feet flat on
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the FL floor eyes on the teacher and now
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like half the classes on adderal and
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anti-depressants or some kind of drug
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they have to take every day
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autism was like one in 10,000 kids maybe
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even more now in boys one in 22 one in
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22 boys have autism ISM and according to
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the CDC 1 in 34 kids part of the
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spectrum so what's happened and then
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let's look at autoimmune disease that
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suddenly blew up in the 90s juvenile
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diabetes eczema which is epidemic
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rheumatoid arthritis Crohn's disease
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lupus all those allergic diseases that
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suddenly appear at the same time in the
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mid 90s peanut allergies oh my gosh
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peanut butter was the staple for every
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packed lunch eczema there isn't a day
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goes by that somebody isn't asking for
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something natural that would have less
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side effects than the cortisone cream
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teachers have to have Albuterol inhalers
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and epipens in every
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classroom so let's look at the
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government agencies that are supposed to
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be looking out for us starting with the
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EPA it's really kind of a captured
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agency not by the Pharmaceuticals not by
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the or in the insurance companies
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because they really don't regulate those
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it's captured by oil coal gas and the
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chemical Industries interesting study
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that the EPA did with maybe some real
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science that wasn't filtered and
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controlled by Big Egg big Pharma big
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insurance and all those it was a study
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that in the year 1989 it pointed to as
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the year autism epidemic began and if
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you look at all all of those diseases
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they kind of follow the same timeline so
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what happened around then we know it
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wasn't our genes genes don't cause
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epidemics we say these genes can load
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the gun but it's the environment that
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pulls the trigger genes can provide a
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vulnerability but you need a trigger
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something in the environment maybe a
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toxin was it just about this time they
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started doing intense vaccination
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you know up to over like 75 and more now
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I mean when I was a kid I think I had
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small pox and
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polio my brothers came home with measles
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mums and chickenpox so I had all those
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before I was even in
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kindergarten yeah not that big a deal
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either now maybe that's part of the
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answer we need studies you know because
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we don't want to be Mass poisoning our
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children that are already nutritionally
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weak so where are some of the other
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toxins what changed about this time one
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high fruit toast corn syrup clearly all
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those containing high fructose corn
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syrup are processed foods ultr processed
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and you
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know my generation began eating that
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tons and tons of sugar we all have the
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dental fillings to prove it I even had a
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charge account in grade school at
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Maggie's neighborhood store close to the
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elementary school where I'd go and buy
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candy all the time time yeks you know no
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wonder I do what I do I was like the
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canary in the M shaft all the ultr
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processed food huge issue and it's
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exploded over the last decades you know
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high sugar at the same time we had bad
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fats and the brain is like 70% dry
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weight fat
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undoubtedly it's really one of those
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factors that has played into the
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epidemic we need studies but I think
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what we're coming to understand in
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science it's a huge body of evidence now
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that supports ultr processed food is
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driving a lot of these epidemics obesity
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diabetes you know all the chronic
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illnesses that destroy our gut
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microbiome driving inflammation and that
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affects mental health depression suicide
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violence you know it's it's quite
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interesting there there's like for every
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10% of the diet that comes from
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processed food there's an increased risk
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in death by
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15% what's scary is that kids eat about
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a 70% ultra-processed diet and adults
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have about a
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60% on the other hand a Whole Foods diet
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mortality decreased
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significantly this information came
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right from Bobby Kennedy Jr who has sued
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all the government agencies multiple
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times in one this is story is like a
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whistleblower and a super mind opener to
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the government agencies it's about the
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NIH National Institute of Health so
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wrong
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corporations are allowed to make way too
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much influence and there's an obvious
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conflict of interest in studies NIH
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scientists have the right to collect
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royalties on any drug they're working on
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for example the co madna vaccine and
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booster was designed by and early
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clinical trials paid for by the NIH made
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billions of dollars tens of billions
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half of that money went to the NIH some
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of the money went directly to the NIH
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scientists that will collect
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$150,000 every year forever and they
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were supposed to be studying it a little
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conflict of interest moreover operation
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warp speed remember that provided
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equipment and a lot of other support to
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expand private madna ma
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manufacturing that's a potential for a
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huge conflict of interest a drug that
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you're supposed to be regulating and
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study you know it'd be a real temptation
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to turn a blind eye to some of the
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problems with that you know and that's
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it the entire function of the NIH has
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changed NIH is now the biggest incubator
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of
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Pharmacy no longer doing what it's
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supposed to do which is ask questions
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why is everybody sick why do we have an
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obesity epidemic why do we have an
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Autism epidemic autoimmune disease why
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do we have these never was when I was a
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kid never was there's a priority to find
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out answers fast and to fund studies
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that are going to tell us what's causing
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it so we can reverse it immediately you
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know there's a lot of push book back
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trying to do these huge potential to
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publish compromis science Ambitions of
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big business is getting in the way you
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know without studies you know they can't
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sue companies for making your kids sick
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you've got to have the
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studies and and you know that's where
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you know
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Monsanto there were so many studies that
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link glyphosate Round Up to non-hodgkin
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lymphoma they lost the studies NIH they
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studied disease cancer heart disease and
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diabetes but they're not studying the
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root cause they focus on all the disease
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but not the cause it's like the horse is
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already out of the
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barn healthc care insurance hardly
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reimburses for preventive
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care and you know that's as a dietitian
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they pay next to nothing for counseling
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people on a healthy diet but oh my gosh
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you get paid for stance chemotherapy
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expensive drugs that can cost up to
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$1,500 a month
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but they won't pay for intensive
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lifestyle programs using food lifestyle
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me medicine reversing type 2 diabetes
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insulin resistance gut issues mood
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issues you know in my 10-day challenge
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people saw so much improvement and in my
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90-day programs oh my gosh yeah another
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agency that's compromised FDA it gets
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50% of its budget from pharmaceutical
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companies good question along with why
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NIH scientists get royalties from
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products they're supposed to be
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regulating you know it's it's a little
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bit of a compromise there and our health
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care System itself is incentivized to
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actually make more money keeping people
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sick rather than get him healthy imagine
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if you had a car and you drove it all
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the lot paid for it but it didn't work
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ancient Chinese medicine only paid the
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doctors if the people stayed well that's
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interesting you know our health care
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System isn't health care it's sick care
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you know it doesn't pay for results
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we're paying for more interventions more
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Specialists more rever referrals more
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medicines more all that you know that's
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most
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doctors don't even know that a
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prescription May cost $800 or more
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everything is at the mercy of the
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pharmaceutical
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reps doctors don't have time to study
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all the
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medicines we're 60th in life expectancy
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now rated poor in child infant mortality
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maternal mortality cancer chronic
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disease you name it just look at the
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fact we're 79th in the world in healthc
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care behind Mongolia behind Cuba behind
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Costa Rica and you know the covid
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epidemic should have been a wake up we
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had 16% of the deaths in this country
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but we only had 4% % of the global
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population so why CDC says it's because
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most of the people that
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died from covid had 3.8 chronic
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diseases and that was a chronic disease
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that you know set him up Co dangled them
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off the cliff and then you know they
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couldn't take it they just fell but
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you've got allergic
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symptoms they've exploded too large
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percentage of the American
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population has something at least $4.3
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trillion in healthc care when I was a
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kid only 6% of people had chronic
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disease now it's around 60 and the
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average number of drugs anyone takes
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after age 18 is four four drugs when
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you're 18 and over and you've seen it
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some people are on eight or 10
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more so today thanks for listening to
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another edition of today's nutrition we
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covered some pretty heavy stuff here but
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there's hope that things are changing
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with the new Administration that has
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promised to clean up the corruption and
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it looks like the pressure is already
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having an effect after 30 years of
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knowing that red dye number three caused
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cancer and they took it out of Cosmetics
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they left it in food because the Marino
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Cherry people put a lot of pressure on
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them the FDA is taking action so vote
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with your dollars read labels and only
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buy what you deserve the best let me
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email me at Deb de.com have a great day
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and be well
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Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Feb 8, 2025
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Some real statistics that underscore the decline in American health- Current government data says that 75% of Americans overweight. 45% of kids from the latest new data! And over 93% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy which is what my latest 10 day challenge, called the MYHA Challenge that targeted the root causes behind either high blood sugar, cholesterol, high blood pressure, overweight, heart attack or stroke. And more…..60% of Americans have a chronic disease because of the of ultra-processed food that has taken over in the last 20-30 years that is the driver for metabolic health.