This video, titled "MAHA" by Deb Ford DCN RDN, argues that the United States is facing a health crisis, evidenced by high rates of childhood obesity and pre-diabetes, poor global health rankings, and lower life expectancy compared to other developed nations. The speaker suggests that this crisis is worsened by the influence of large pharmaceutical and food companies on health recommendations and media, as well as a focus on treating disease rather than promoting health through nutrition. The video emphasizes that personal responsibility and eating real, whole foods are crucial for improving health, citing Dr. William Li's research on food as medicine and examples from "blue zones" like Acciaroli, Italy.
Key Takeaways
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The United States has alarmingly high rates of childhood obesity and pre-diabetes, with 50% of kids overweight or obese and 33% having pre-diabetes.
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The U.S. ranks poorly in global health, currently 69th, despite spending more money per person on healthcare than any other country.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthy individuals who ate well and exercised had a near 0% chance of dying, a fact that was largely uncommunicated amidst the push for vaccines.
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Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Meta bowed to Biden Administration pressure to censor content, raising concerns about free speech and the influence of powerful entities on health information.
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Pharmaceutical and big food industries significantly influence dietary guidelines and media reporting, preventing open discussion and critical questioning about health approaches.
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The American Pediatric Association, funded by Novo Nordisk (maker of Ozempic), now recommends Ozempic as the first-line treatment for overweight children aged 12 and over, bypassing dietary intervention.
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Dr. William Li, a Harvard-trained physician, advocates for "eat to beat disease" by focusing on how compounds in food can make the body work smarter and prevent chronic illnesses.
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Blue zones, like Acciaroli, Italy, demonstrate exceptional longevity and health through diets rich in vegetables, olive oil, and fish, and the absence of fast or processed foods.
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Shifting from treating disease to building health through prevention is a major paradigm shift that will challenge the profits of big food and pharma companies.
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Ancient philosophies and science consistently show that real, whole food is our best medicine, capable of reversing health problems and building strong cells.
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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 new in research what's
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hot in the news or any topic that can
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help us lose weight feel great or live
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longer better and today's topic is eat
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to be a strong country or make America
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healthy again honestly you know it's not
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rocket science it doesn't take a Harvard
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or a Stanford grad or someone with
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really impressive credentials to see
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that what we're doing to lose weight
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feel greater live longer better isn't
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working on a national scale you know
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let's just start with our kids and
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compare their health to those around the
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world Japan has a 3% obesity rate and in
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their children and when it went up just
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a smidge not even a whole percent they
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rallied to success y reverse that Trend
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United States not
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3% 50% of our kids are either overweight
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or obese 33% have pre-diabetes a
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metabolic disease which means they have
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high blood sugar they may also have
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blood pressure problems cholesterol
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problems in fact 77% of our young adults
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aren't even eligible for the military
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because they're overweight
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now let's look at life expectancy Europe
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6 to S years
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longer and don't even get me started on
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aeri Italy let me just tell you their
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health is phenomenal and these people
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are not genetically different from us
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okay not genetically different they just
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live differently when I look at the
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latest Global Health ranking in the
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United States 3 years ago I was
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embarrassed to say that we ranked 37th
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in global Health well actually spending
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more money per person than any other
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country now we rank
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69th now that's just above
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Algeria Mexico and
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Romania Cuba's ahead of us you know we
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have lower life exp expectancy higher
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infant and maternal mortality than any
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so-called developed country and we spend
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more money by far than any other country
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you know you just keep looking at all
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the statistics and I keep scrolling and
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scrolling and scrolling and the United
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States I mean we're so low and look at
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Co stats okay US population 330 350
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million India has 1.4
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billion okay we lost a million people to
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covid they lost a half a million what on
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Earth I'm looking at these stats and I
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can't even believe they're so bad you
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know we died at three times the rate as
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Japan and we had the highest rate of
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death of any country in the
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world however in reality if you were
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healthy not overweight ate well exercise
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the basics of what I talk about every
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week what I talk about in my book get
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out of hormone hell just the basics of
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good health you had about a 0% chance of
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dying from Co kids hardly any but did
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you ever hear that no just get this shot
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get this vaccine nothing else was
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allowed this is
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huge and you might want to come back and
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listen to this because I I hope it's a
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wake up for many did you know that Mark
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Zuckerberg Facebook
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meta just this week at the house
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Judiciary Committee hearing says and I
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quote I regret that meta bowed to the
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Biden Administration pressure to censor
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content saying in the letter that the
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inference was interference was wrong and
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he plans to push back if it ever happens
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again I mean free speech isn't that what
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our country stands for but honestly too
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much money is involved I know I was
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silenced I I did not feel free to say a
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lot of the things that I knew was in
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research would help and so many of my
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colleagues were silenced banned
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cancelled for speaking out or giving
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anything recommending anything other
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than what was being promoted by the
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pharmaceutical companies you know things
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that would help build your immunity
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against
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viruses now
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this should make everyone question
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what's going on and I'm not saying it's
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a conspiracy necessarily but I am saying
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there's way too much money involved to
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keep things above board and honest and
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open discussion and allow for critical
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questioning all the way around I mean
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that's That's the basis of science
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you've got to be able to question openly
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have debate bring things up but when the
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media gets most of its funding from the
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pH pharmaceutical industry specifically
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50% of CBS funding comes from the
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pharmaceutical industry do you think
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they're going to bite the hand that
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feeds them no way and it goes deep in
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the government too you know I I talked
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before about how you know every five
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years we have the dietary guidelines
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that get updated all the science
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presented about eating eating for health
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you know all the vegetables Wholesome
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foods everything I talk about every week
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science is it's just how the body works
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but okay then it goes to committee after
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all the Sciences pre presented and it
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goes to committee and that's when the
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big food companies come in to influence
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the outcome behind closed doors Pharma
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healthc care big food influencers you
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know all the largest Washington DC
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Spenders and when the recommendations
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come out it's unrecognizable it's like
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you must get 10% of your calories from
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sugar you know that's about the amount
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you would get from a pop all the
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recommendations are so watered down that
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they're almost useless and who even
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looks at them you know and you look at
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the different agencies according to the
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international insurance I think it's
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downright criminal to what's being
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allowed to happen we continue to fall in
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health longevity and can I even say
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Vitality 3 years ago preo or guess it's
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5 years ago now pre-co we were at 35 and
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now we're at 37 and this our daily our
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disability life years are also
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increasing we're getting sicker living
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on disability and the quality of our
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life is falling you know we can turn
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this around you know our government sure
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isn't doing anything so I guess it's up
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to us we need to take personal
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responsibility there's no drug no pill
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that's going to be able to do it for you
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but what you can do is nothing less than
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amazing
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now this is really disturbing and I know
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you probably haven't been told this but
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you know the drug
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company the Danish Drug Company noo
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Nordisk that makes OIC you know the
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weight loss diabetic drug that you know
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you take for weight loss or
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diabetes they paid the American
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Pediatric Association to rec recommend
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that any overweight child 12 years old
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or over should use OIC as the first line
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of
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treatment and you're not even supposed
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to go after dietary
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intervention I I mean no dietary
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adjustment suggested first line of
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treatment is
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OIC now they're
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saying across the board that obesity is
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genetic it's a disease and nothing but
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OIC will treat
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it patients are encouraged to parents
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are encouraged to start their child on
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this drug and it is to be taken for the
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rest of their life because it is a
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disease and then they can just eat
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whatever they want they even want
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Medicaid to pay for up to
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$800 a
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month for the
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medication you know I think this is you
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know and they say they cite that it is a
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civil rights issue because people of
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lower income are more at risk I mean
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goodness it can't get any weirder in my
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opinion you know I would have been one
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of those plump kids you know thank
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heaven I questioned I took action on my
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own health we have to you know our
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country in 1960 spent 0 doar on chronic
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health problems now we pay more for
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chronic health problems than we spend on
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the entire defense budget you know and
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the thing is it's
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preventable admittedly I was a canary in
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the M shaft with poor health and
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surgical removal of five healthy organs
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by the time I was 17 I am living proof
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you can reverse these problems in kids
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it just takes the desire to change yeah
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a little effort yeah it's a little work
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but oh my gosh you know the research
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says it all I think you know if you just
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look at the Western countries the top
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performing countries are still Norway
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the Netherlands and Austria United
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States ranks out of all of them
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11th yet we spend far
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more on health care the US ranks last in
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access to healthc care yet again
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spending more than any body else in the
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past High income countries spent between
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5 and 8% of their gross domestic profit
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product on healthc care but us at least
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177% and has the poorest outcome
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compared to other one other
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countries Le less likely to report that
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their insurance were denied however many
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people in the United States report they
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get paid less than
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expected okay you know so Switching
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gears a little bit some absolutely great
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research by Dr William Lee Harvard
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trained physician you know he's been
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published over a hundred times in what
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you'd consider the most prestigious
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journals science New England Journal of
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Medicine the lcet he began in cancer
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research became a little disillusioned
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with treating disease
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and he started going into all the proven
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commonalities of all the diseases cancer
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diabetes blindness heart disease even
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just wound healing you know more than 70
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other chronic health conditions and as a
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trained internal dock he knows what
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happens in disease dates and he found
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powerful things happen on a microscopic
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level when we eat certain foods love
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this guy he created the eat to defeat
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cancer program and in some of his past
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research cuz he kind of specializes
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Immunology retraining the immune system
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to work better and he discovered the
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compounds in food make the body work
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smarter without side effects so he's got
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the book Eat to beat disease he had a
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great Ted Talk called eat to beat cancer
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it's really wonderful you really should
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listen to it but you know the thought of
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creating Health versus treating disease
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you know it takes like a sledgehammer to
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treat disease and it's usually chronic
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ongoing it's doesn't get reversed it's
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costly not as effective unpleasant Light
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Side Effects but when creating Health
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with food you know kind of as humankind
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is done forever you know it before
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disease became big business you know
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creating Health with food is Pleasant
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delicious creative fun it's a social
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activity you know I I just always go
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back to the blue zones where people have
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Health and Longevity you know they it
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just goes together you don't think about
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disease they don't have
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huge hospitals in every Community you
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know and one of my best I love it aeri
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Italy where 15 to 30% of the
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population's over 100 years old amazing
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circulation like that of a 20-year-old
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no dementia no heart disease no
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cataracts no broken bones none of these
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diseases we consider common in old age
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you know I will say they eat a ton of
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Rosemary I think that's interesting they
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eat a ton of olive oil of vegetables the
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Mediterranean diet lots of Omega-3 fish
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fresh air a little bit of wine yeah but
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very little pasta no fast food no
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processed food no sugar maybe a little
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sugar I don't know not much nope you
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know just real whole food lots of
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vegetables spices eating to beat disease
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goes hand in hand with things that
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promote Health and Longevity all the
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experts are going to tell you that you
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know I have to put my plugin for my
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latest version of the weight loss for
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Life program you know it's very similar
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to a lot of the research programs that
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are going on that show people were
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reverse age by 3.23 years in as little
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as 8 weeks reverse aging is very similar
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to reversing disease I love it people
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get off their medicines feel so much
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younger more Health vitality and anyway
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getting back to Dr Lee I really do
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recommend his Ted talk can we eat to
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starve cancer you know Dr Lee decided to
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look at all the major chronic dis
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diseases and what they had in common the
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big switch is to look at the pathways
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and he found so many things you know you
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can shift from fighting
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disease and treating disease to building
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health and it's a mental mind shift you
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know a big paradigm shift and it it will
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take a while it's like kind of like
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stopping an ocean liner when it's got
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all that momentum but the shift of
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prevention oh my gosh it is going to be
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a detriment to the big food the big
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Pharma the big advertising dollars you
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know and if you w watch TV you're going
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to see Food and Drugs that's all you see
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on TV they're paying the bills so that's
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all you're going to see but one by one
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we can change and it starts with eating
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real fresh food you know whatever area
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you look at the mitochondria the
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microbiome functional medicine gut
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health food science shows it is what
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builds the cells it builds help you know
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I love it you just give the body what it
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needs and it goes about reversing all
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that stuff we don't want the thing about
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science you can't argue with it it is
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what it is truth and you follow it
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wherever it goes not led by money not
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led by bias not profit nothing but truth
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you know food turns out is our best
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medicine it's what old is new again all
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the
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ancient philosoph philosophies taught it
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hypocrates said food is the best
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medicine you know all disease begins in
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the gut yeah where is that it food truly
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is the strongest medicine but the wrong
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food is also the slowest poison you know
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it's how our body responds we should be
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treating teaching this to our kids from
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the beginning and um you know
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so there's just so much that I could
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talk about but it's really simple food
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is powerful real simple I love Dr Lee's
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book ancient cultures knew it and we're
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just kind of really rediscovering it but
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thanks for listening to another edition
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of today's nutrition I hope you learn
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something that will make you question
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help something that maybe help your
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health vitality and Longevity as always
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the replays are available on my website
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Deb for.com on YouTube or anywhere you
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listen to podcasts have a great day and
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remember eat real food not too much keep
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it colorful and organic thanks again for
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listening and um you know if you'd like
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to work with me my greatest pleasure is
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helping people reverse their health
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problems one of the quotes from my
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latest group that uh was like my brain
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is like 20 years younger mental Clarity
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like years ago pretty good huh have a
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great day hope to see you soon
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MAHA
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Oct 30, 2024
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Let’s just start with our kids and compare their health to those around the world. Japan has a 3% obesity rate and when it went up just a percent, they rallied to successfully reverse the trend. In the US –50% of our kids are overweight or obese and 33% have prediabetes. a metabolic disease- meaning they have high blood sugar, blood pressure, or cholesterol. And 77% of young adults aren’t eligible for the military because they are overweight. Life expectancy in Europe is 6-7 years longer. This wasn't always so. In the 1950's we were the healthiest.