And it's no coincidence that Americans die earlier than Canadians or Germans or Italians or Japanese or Koreans or Australians or most any other comparable country. And it wasn't always that way. Until the early 1990s, our life expectancy was the same or better than [that of] other developed countries. Then suddenly, more and more Americans began suffering from chronic diseases from obesity, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and all kinds of autoimmune diseases. (00:22–00:29)
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Asserts that before the early 1990s, American life expectancy was comparable or superior to other developed nations.
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