RFK Jr. has just been confirmed as Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services secretary, and according to data he reported, it couldn't come at a better time.
“The overall health of Americans is in a terrible state,” RFK said at the confirmation hearing. “Over 70% of adults and one-third of children are overweight or obese. Diabetes is 10 times more prevalent than in the 1960s. Cancer in young people is increasing by 1% or 2% per year.”
“Autoimmune diseases, neurodevelopmental disorders, Alzheimer's disease, asthma, ADHD, depression, addiction and many other physical and mental health conditions are all increasing. Some of them exponentially “He continued.
Sarah Gonzalez “Sara Gonzalez is not filtered” did not make RFK happy that it was confirmed, but she didn't want to question how we got to this point. I can't do it.
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“We spend twice the global average, but we're not the healthiest country,” says Gonzalez. “If you want to see the five healthiest countries, you have Singapore, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Israel. And the US is not the sixth, 74th. That's awful.”
Gonzales is one of the reasons why Gonzales believes because government agencies don't actually have our biggest interest.
“The FDA has not been able to take timely action on the wide range of safety and health issues that agents have been aware of for years. …What is in our food and what is me. Look how sick you make them. You look at fast food. If you look at the same menu items in this country and then look abroad, sometimes they're twice as salty, twice as sodium levels, It's twice as much sodium levels overseas, twice as much sodium levels,” she continues.
“Excess sodium consumption is linked to the premature deaths of thousands of people in the United States,” she says. “Looking all this, I know that it took a while for the FDA to recommend and adopt lower sodium levels in packaged and prepared foods.”
“The American Heart Association will have around 265,000 lives between 2017 and 2031 if the food and restaurant industry adopts low sodium levels proposed in its FDA's proposed second and tenth year targets on schedule. I concluded that it could have been saved. She continued, “You know, something just strikes me about our government addiction to its own citizens. ”
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