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Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Fixing America's Food System - Robert Irvine

Published | Video Starts at 01:37

It's existential for our country. 77% of our kids can't qualify for military service. And that should get everybody's attention. But also just the costs are ruinous. 40 cents out of every taxpayer dollar that we give to the federal government is going to treat diseases that are diet related. So we need to change our diet or we're going to lose our country. And I have here today a man, Robert Irvine, who's going to tell us how to do this. (01:37–01:47)

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Asserts that 40% of taxpayer dollars are spent on diet-related diseases.

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