Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel

One failure is home.

Parents not teaching their kids and not encouraging their kids to learn how to cook for themselves.

And the other is we have a school system to make up for deficiencies in that regard and for teaching kids.

And

We got rid of home economics somewhere in the, you know, 60s and 70s that weren't appropriate to school.

But it's part of health.

As we've learned over the last 50 years, nutrition is a key element.

You have bad nutrition, you have obesity, you have type 2 diabetes, you have a whole range of chronic illnesses, osteoarthritis, renal failure, hypertension.

If we don't fix this food system problem, right,

We are going to be settled with high costs from chronic illness and less longevity and

We're going to have more disabilities.

It's all tied together.

And so food, and as you point out, Mark, food and learning how to do it yourself.

The other thing that sort of gets me is I was raised in a house that didn't have a salt shaker.

My father was a pediatrician with an expertise in kidney disease.

And salt was forbidden.

My mom had no salt in the house, so I grew up with no salt.

My pastes, buds are just whatever is natural.

That's what we got.

And so I've always found restaurants too salty, a little too.