Dr. Mark Hyman

And I recognized that it was our food system that was making people ill.

There's other things like environmental toxins and chronic stress and many other things, but predominantly the driver is food.

And the Global Burden Disease Study, which is a big study done in 195 countries, found that food was the number one killer now on the planet exceeding smoking.

Food is the number one killer.

11 million people a year, and I think that's a way underestimate.

Because 75% of the deaths globally are from chronic disease.

And most of those are from lifestyle modifiable factors.

And those are like smoking is a big one, obviously, but take out smoking.

Obesity and food related causes are the biggest drivers of chronic illness.

And then I began to say, well, why are we eating this food?

And then I was like, well, it's our food system.

Because it's producing all this high starch, high sugar, ultra-processed foods that everybody's consuming, which is now 60% of the diet in America and 67% of kids' diet.

It's 73% of what's on the store shelves in the grocery store.

Why do we have these foods?

It's our food policies.

It's our policies of agriculture and our food policies that drive the food we have in our environment.

And I'm like, well, why do we have the food policies we have?

Oh, it's the food companies, the food industry, which is the single biggest industry in the planet.

It's over $16 trillion a year, employs more people than any other industry.

Why?