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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “It's an illusion to think that processed food is cheap…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:32

And that's why that's what's on the food or at the table at the end of the day, or that's what's in their lunchbox. It's an illusion to think that processed food is cheap because you end up paying for it with diabetes. You end up paying for it with autoimmune dysregulation, with mitochondrial dysfunction, with inflammation, and you end up paying much higher costs in the long run. But they're not paying for for it. (05:32–05:38)

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Asserts that processed food leads to higher long-term health costs like diabetes.

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