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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The American heart association has been wrong about…”

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

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Extended interview: RFK Jr. discusses new dietary guidelines

Published | Video Starts at 01:30

Is that your concern as well? Well, we recommend that, that Americans reduce their inputs of salt. The saturated fat levels are very, very conservative. They're around 10%. The American heart association has been wrong about saturated fats since 1960. The study upon which they base their recommendations has been utterly debunked. And there's now mountains of science that show that we should be eating much, much more protein than we are getting. (01:30–01:37)

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Asserts that the American Heart Association's stance on saturated fats has been incorrect since 1960.

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