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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “For 50 years the government had been lying to us about…”

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

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And it reflected the mercantile impulses that had put Fruit Loops at the top of the food pyramid, which isn't even a food, it's just poison. And For 50 years the government had been lying to us about saturated fat, sugars, refined carbohydrates, and ultra-processed food. particularly, they were focused on eliminating protein. And citing a bunch of science that was so badly flawed, said that protein was associated with greater heart attacks, which there's no legitimate scientific study that's ever shown that. (29:26–29:39)

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Asserts that the government has misled the public about nutrition for decades.

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