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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We know it's an environmental toxin. Epidemics are not…”

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

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Senate Discussion on Obesity and Chronic Disease with NIH Representative

Published | Video Starts at 02:30

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. We know it's an environmental toxin. Epidemics are not caused by genes. That genes may provide a vulnerability. You need an environmental toxin. Why aren't we devoting science to finding out what those toxins are and then eliminating them? (02:30–02:36)

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Asserts that environmental toxins, not genes, cause epidemics.

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