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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Diabetes rates have gone up. Now we're spending almost a…”

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

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Growing up, watching him and seeing him with that powerful memorial to his sister was really touching. Tell us about that ad and what you hope its impact will be. Diabetes rates have gone up. Now we're spending almost a trillion dollars a year on metabolic dysfunction. That is mainly through diabetes. When I was a kid, the average pediatrician would see one case of juvenile diabetes over a 40 or 50 year career. (10:57–11:03)

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Asserts that diabetes rates have increased, leading to nearly $1 trillion spent annually on metabolic dysfunction.

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