Environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ripped the American health care system as a sick care system as he ended his own White House campaign Friday and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
Speaking in Phoenix, Ariz., Kennedy explained Americans are getting sick from a food supply saturated with hyper-processed consumables laden with seed oils and environmental toxins.
“We spend more on health care than any country on Earth,” Kennedy said, “and we have the worst health outcomes of any nation… Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have.”
In the 1960s, when Kennedy’s uncle was president and his father the U.S. attorney general, American health spending was just 5 percent of gross domestic product. By 2021, it was more than 18 percent of GDP. Obesity rates have also tripled since the early 1960s ushered in the industrialization of the food supply and the low-fat diet craze.
Kennedy outlined the numbers in his Arizona address wherein “half Americans have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.”
“When I was a boy, juvenile diabetes was practically non-existent,” Kennedy said, explaining the typical pediatrician rarely saw a case of adolescent diabetes. “Today, one out of every three kids who walks through his office door is diabetic or pre-diabetic.”
“There’s been an explosion of neurological illnesses that I never saw as a kid,” he added, while childhood obesity is now jeopardizing military readiness. “There’s nobody else in the world that is experiencing this. This is only happening in America.”
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