Bernie Sanders: “One out of five children in America is obese.”

“I mean, nowhere near enough, you know, nowhere near enough. Look, we have a problem, really serious crisis in this country in terms of obesity. I think One out of five children in America is obese. And that translates into diabetes, which is, as you know, just a terrible illness impacting our country and very expensive to deal with. We're spending about $400 billion a year dealing with diabetes.” (13:11–13:15)

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