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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “HHS manages the largest budget in human history and nearly…”

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

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The crisis is not the fault of individual Americans. Americans followed the guidance that they were given. Government policy pushed sugar, refined carbohydrates and ultra processed food. And the American people paid the price. HHS manages the largest budget in human history and nearly 90% of it goes to treating Largely preventable diet induced chronic diseases. And the price is staggering. We spend more than 4 trillion a year on health care. Three quarters of that goes to chronic disease that are diet induced. (19:40–19:52)

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Asserts that nearly 90% of HHS's budget is spent on diet-induced chronic diseases.

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