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Cory Booker: “1 in 4 teenagers [in America] are diabetic or pre-diabetic.”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

Sen. Cory Booker Warns of U.S. Health Crisis & Calls for "Food is Medicine" Reform Plan | AC1N

Published May 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:48

That's nearly a million people dead every year from what we eat. More than die from Alzheimer's. Accidents on our highways, strokes combined. And we in … 1 in 4 teenagers [in America] are diabetic or pre-diabetic. … diabetes had to be changed in name. Half the children alive in this country right now today are projected to be obese by the time they are 35. (01:48–01:54)

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Asserts that 25% of American teenagers are diabetic or pre-diabetic.

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“Since the last farm bill in 2018, 150,000 American family farmers have gone out of business.”
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“Diet-related chronic disease is now the number one killer of Americans.”
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“We are spending trillions of dollars every year treating diseases that would not exist at this scale if big corporations had not built a…”
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“Corporate lobbyists wrote [the food system] this way. Both parties signed it.”
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