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Marty Makary: “31% [of our nation's kids] have diabetes, pre diabetes or…”

Featuring: Marty Makary, Commissioner of Food and Drugs | National

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Published | Video Starts at 24:52

This begins the end of the government subsidization of our obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance epidemic. And it got pretty bad. Look at where we are today. 40% of our nation's kids now have a diagnosed chronic disease, 31% [of our nation's kids] have diabetes, pre diabetes or insulin resistance. We can't keep just talking about the price of insulin. We also have to talk about what we are feeding children. We need amazing treatments. (24:52–24:58)

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Asserts that 31% of children in the U.S. have diabetes, pre-diabetes, or insulin resistance.

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