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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Four in ten live with two or more [chronic diseases].”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 11:51

We now see the consequences everywhere. Rising rates of obesity, diabetes, metabolic disease in our children. Six in ten American adults now live with at least one chronic disease. Four in ten live with two or more [chronic diseases]. This is not a small crisis. This is the defining health crisis of our time. Every parent in this country knows that something is wrong with the American diet. (11:51–11:57)

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Asserts that 40% of American adults have two or more chronic diseases.

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