RFK Jr.
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I am supportive of vaccines. I want good science, and I want to protect the vaccines.
Well, the biggest... The biggest cost is our medical costs, and the medical costs are preventable. And this goes to another issue, which neither of them ever talk about, which I believe is the biggest issue, which is the chronic disease, even bigger than the budget. which is existential, which is the chronic disease epidemic. When my uncle was president, 6% of Americans had chronic disease.
Well, the biggest... The biggest cost is our medical costs, and the medical costs are preventable. And this goes to another issue, which neither of them ever talk about, which I believe is the biggest issue, which is the chronic disease, even bigger than the budget. which is existential, which is the chronic disease epidemic. When my uncle was president, 6% of Americans had chronic disease.
Well, the biggest... The biggest cost is our medical costs, and the medical costs are preventable. And this goes to another issue, which neither of them ever talk about, which I believe is the biggest issue, which is the chronic disease, even bigger than the budget. which is existential, which is the chronic disease epidemic. When my uncle was president, 6% of Americans had chronic disease.
Today, 60% have chronic disease. And that, more than any country in the world, I mean, one of the reasons we had During COVID, we had the highest death rate, the highest body count of any country in the world. We had 16% of the COVID deaths globally were in the United States. We only have 4.2% of the world's population. And a lot of that was mismanagement.
Today, 60% have chronic disease. And that, more than any country in the world, I mean, one of the reasons we had During COVID, we had the highest death rate, the highest body count of any country in the world. We had 16% of the COVID deaths globally were in the United States. We only have 4.2% of the world's population. And a lot of that was mismanagement.
Today, 60% have chronic disease. And that, more than any country in the world, I mean, one of the reasons we had During COVID, we had the highest death rate, the highest body count of any country in the world. We had 16% of the COVID deaths globally were in the United States. We only have 4.2% of the world's population. And a lot of that was mismanagement.
But a lot of it was also because we have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world. The CDC says that the average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. Now, you take these chronic diseases individually. Juvenile diabetes, when I was a kid, A typical pediatrician would see one case of juvenile diabetes in his lifetime, his entire career, his 40-year career.
But a lot of it was also because we have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world. The CDC says that the average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. Now, you take these chronic diseases individually. Juvenile diabetes, when I was a kid, A typical pediatrician would see one case of juvenile diabetes in his lifetime, his entire career, his 40-year career.
But a lot of it was also because we have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world. The CDC says that the average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. Now, you take these chronic diseases individually. Juvenile diabetes, when I was a kid, A typical pediatrician would see one case of juvenile diabetes in his lifetime, his entire career, his 40-year career.
Today, one out of every three children who walk into his office is pre-diabetic or diabetic. The cost of diabetes now in this country is higher than the defense budget. One disease, and that doesn't even include Alzheimer's, which we now know, which has now been reclassified as type 3 diabetes. Alzheimer's is coming from the same cause that's causing the diabetes, which is food.
Today, one out of every three children who walk into his office is pre-diabetic or diabetic. The cost of diabetes now in this country is higher than the defense budget. One disease, and that doesn't even include Alzheimer's, which we now know, which has now been reclassified as type 3 diabetes. Alzheimer's is coming from the same cause that's causing the diabetes, which is food.
Today, one out of every three children who walk into his office is pre-diabetic or diabetic. The cost of diabetes now in this country is higher than the defense budget. One disease, and that doesn't even include Alzheimer's, which we now know, which has now been reclassified as type 3 diabetes. Alzheimer's is coming from the same cause that's causing the diabetes, which is food.
It's a poison food. We have a thousand ingredients in our food that are banned in Europe and other countries. And they're killing us, literally. The autism rate in our country has gone from 1 in 10,000 in my generation, 70-year-old men, 1 in 10,000 has full-blown autism. In my kids' generation, it's one in every 34 kids, according to the CDC, one in every 22 boys.
It's a poison food. We have a thousand ingredients in our food that are banned in Europe and other countries. And they're killing us, literally. The autism rate in our country has gone from 1 in 10,000 in my generation, 70-year-old men, 1 in 10,000 has full-blown autism. In my kids' generation, it's one in every 34 kids, according to the CDC, one in every 22 boys.
It's a poison food. We have a thousand ingredients in our food that are banned in Europe and other countries. And they're killing us, literally. The autism rate in our country has gone from 1 in 10,000 in my generation, 70-year-old men, 1 in 10,000 has full-blown autism. In my kids' generation, it's one in every 34 kids, according to the CDC, one in every 22 boys.
So this is a national security issue. Mark Black's just published a peer review application that shows that the cost of treating autism alone is a trillion dollars a year. This is, like I say, this is existential for us. And then there's all these other diseases that suddenly appeared around 1989, all these allergic diseases, food allergies, peanut allergies, eczema, asthma exploded.
So this is a national security issue. Mark Black's just published a peer review application that shows that the cost of treating autism alone is a trillion dollars a year. This is, like I say, this is existential for us. And then there's all these other diseases that suddenly appeared around 1989, all these allergic diseases, food allergies, peanut allergies, eczema, asthma exploded.
So this is a national security issue. Mark Black's just published a peer review application that shows that the cost of treating autism alone is a trillion dollars a year. This is, like I say, this is existential for us. And then there's all these other diseases that suddenly appeared around 1989, all these allergic diseases, food allergies, peanut allergies, eczema, asthma exploded.
We had that early. When I was a kid, I knew people with asthma. But today they're in every classroom. There's albuterol inhalers in every classroom. There's EpiPens in every classroom. Nobody's talking about this and explaining why the neurological disorders, ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, tics, Tourette's syndrome.