Marty Makary: “40% of our nation's kids now have a diagnosed chronic…”

“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% 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.” (24:48–24:53)

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