And the inability to change them and make America healthy again is having a disproportionate effect not only on them, but the cost of all of these programs we're trying to maintain. Thank you for the question, Senator. NIH has been diverted into, away from studying the ideology of chronic disease. There's almost nothing at nih very, very, very little, low percentage of its budget, a $42 billion budget that is devoted to finding out why we're having this obesity epidemic. (02:07–02:18)
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Asserts that NIH is not focusing on chronic disease research.
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