RFK Jr Discusses Processed Foods and the Explosion of Chronic Disease

RFK Jr.: "Processed foods and seed oil is one of the components of processed foods, and that is you know, all the science indicates that ultra processed foods are what are are behind are the principal culprit.

And this extraordinary explosion, the epidemic we have of chronic disease, where my uncle is present, 3% of Americans have chronic disease. Today, 60% do.

We have sixty six percent of adults are diabetic or pre-diabetic, 38% of teens.

When you and I were kids, Sean, the average pediatrician would see one case of juvenile diabetes in his lifetime over a forty or fifty year career.

Today, one out of every three kids who walks to his office stores, diabetic or pre-diabetic, diabetes and other mitochondrial diseases are now costing America more than our military budget. We spent three times two to three times on health care what other countries do, and we have the worst outcomes.

And we have the best medical system in the world.

We are poisoning ourselves.

And, and it's coming from, you know, principally these ultra processed foods and what we're trying to do.

And this President Trump wants us to have radical transparency and to incentivize companies like, like this one to switch to traditional ingredients like, beef tallow."