American's health

“When my uncle was president, our country spent $0 on chronic diseases. Today, almost all government spending on health care goes to chronic diseases, and it's twice the size of the defense budget, and it's the fastest-growing budget item in the federal budget.”
Robert F. Kennedy on Friday, August 23, 2024, when he announced his support for Donald Trump.

A piece not covered by mainstream media, because Kennedy is in the “wrong camp”.
The less debate, the better, apparently, that's good for democracy!
Only a courageous man dares to look the truth in the eye.
Whatever you think about Trump and Biden, read what he had to say about Americans' state of health:

“Let me explain a little bit why I think it's so urgent today. We spend more on health care than any other country in the world, twice what people pay in Europe, and yet we have the worst health outcomes of any country in the world.

We rank 79th in terms of health outcomes, behind Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mongolia, and other countries. No one is as affected by chronic diseases as we are.

And during the Covid epidemic, we had the highest death toll of any country in the world. We had 16% of Covid deaths, while we only have 4.2% of the world's population. And the CDC says that's because we're the sickest people on the planet.

We have the highest rate of chronic diseases in the world, and the average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic illnesses. These were people with immune system collapse, mitochondrial dysfunction, and no other country has anything like it. Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health problems; 50 years ago, it was less than 1%.

We went from 1% to 66% in America. Now 74% of Americans are overweight or obese, and 50% of our children. 120 years ago, when someone was obese, they were sent to the circus. Literally, case studies were written about them.

Obesity was almost unknown in Japan, the rate of childhood obesity there is 3% compared to 50% here. Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes. When my uncle was president and I was a boy, juvenile diabetes was practically non-existent.

A typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career, a career of 40 or 50 years. Today, one in three children who enters his office is diabetic or pre-diabetic, and the mitochondrial disorder that causes diabetes also causes Alzheimer's, which is now classified as diabetes, and it costs this country more than our defense budget.

Every year, there is an explosion of neurological disorders that I never saw as a child: ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, Asperger, autism. In the year 2000, the autism rate was one in 1,500. Now, children's autism rates are one in 36, according to the CDC; no one talks about this nationally.

One in 22 children in California has autism, and this is a crisis where 77% of our children are too disabled to serve in the U.S. military. What is happening to our country, and why isn't it in the headlines every day?

There is no one else in the world who experiences this. This only happens in America, approximately 18%. And by the way, there has been no change in diagnosis, as the industry sometimes claims, there has been no change in screening.

This is a change in incidence. In my generation, among 70-year-old men, the autism rate is around one in 10,000. In my children's generation, it's one in 34. I repeat: in California, it's one in 22. Why are we allowing this to happen? Why do we let this happen to our children?

These are the most valuable assets we have in this country. How can we make this happen? Around 18% of American teenagers now have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. That's one in five, and this disease used to only affect terminal alcoholics who were elderly. Cancer rates are rising enormously, both among young people and older people; young adult cancers have risen by 79%.

One in four American women uses antidepressants. 40% of teenagers have a mental health diagnosis, and 15% of high school students use Adderall, and half a million children use SSRIs.

So what causes this suffering? I will name two cultures, the first and worst is ultra-processed food. Approximately 70% of the diet of American children consists of ultra-processed foods, that is, industrially manufactured in a factory. These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils.

Laboratory scientists, many of whom previously worked for the cigarette industry, who bought up all major food companies in the 1970s and 1980s, are deploying thousands of scientists to find new chemicals to make food more addictive. And these ingredients didn't exist 100 years ago. People are not biologically adapted to eat them.

Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe, but pervasive in American processed foods. The second cult is toxic chemicals in our food, our drugs, our environment; pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic wastes pervade every cell of our body.

These attacks on our children's cells and hormones are incessant. And I'll just mention one problem: many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children ingest so many of these endocrine disruptors, puberty in America now occurs at ages 10 to 13, which is six years earlier than girls reached puberty in 1900. Our country has the earliest puberty ages of any continent on Earth.

And no, this is not due to better nutrition, this is not normal. Breast cancer is also estrogen-sensitive, and now affects one in eight women. We are poisoning all our children and adults en masse. Given the serious human costs of this tragic epidemic of chronic diseases, it seems almost rude to mention the damage it is doing to our economy, but I will say it is crippling the nation's finances.

When my uncle was president, our country spent $0 on chronic diseases. Today, almost all government spending on health care goes to chronic diseases, and it's twice the size of the defense budget, and it's the fastest-growing budget item in the federal budget. Chronic diseases cost the economy as a whole at least 4 trillion dollars, five times our defense budget.

And that is a 20% brake on everything we do and what we strive for. Minority communities suffer disproportionately; people who are concerned about diversity, equality and inclusion, or about any form of discrimination, overshadows everything. We're poisoning the poor. We are systematically poisoning minorities across the country.

Industry lobbyists have ensured that most of the food voucher program and school lunch program, approximately 70% of food stamps and 77% of school lunches, consists of processed foods. There are no vegetables. There is nothing you would like to eat. We are simply poisoning the poorest citizens, which is why they have the largest burden of chronic diseases of any demographic group in our country, and the highest in the world.

The same food industry has lobbied to ensure that almost all agricultural subsidies go to bulk crops that form the raw material for the processed food industry.

These policies are destroying small farms, and they are destroying our soils. It is estimated that we give eight times as many subsidies to tobacco as to fruit and vegetables.

It makes no sense if we want a healthy country. The good news is that we can change all of this. We can change it very quickly. America can get healthy again. To do that, we need to do three things. First, we need to eradicate corruption in our health authorities. Second, we need to change the incentives in our health care system. And third, we need to inspire Americans to get back to health.

Eighty percent of NIH grants go to people with conflicts of interest. These are the people, almost all of them. Joe Biden just appointed a new panel at the NIH to determine dietary recommendations, and they're all industry people. They're all people from the processed food companies. They determine what Americans hear about healthy food and the food pyramid recommendations and what goes to our school lunch programs, what goes to the food voucher program.

They are all corrupted and have conflicting interests. These agencies - the FDA, USDA, and CDC - are all controlled by large profit-oriented companies. Eighty-five percent of FDA funding doesn't come from taxpayers; it comes from the pharmaceutical industry, and pharmaceutical executives, consultants, and lobbyists are constantly swapping in and out of these agencies.”

Since the dietary advice from experts iAmericans' health status has declined dramatically.

On the processed food of course it can't lie.:_)

(By the way: this image is of a public beach in Australia just a few decades ago. The beaches in the US also looked so healthy.. There is not one person who is overweight.)

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