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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We spend now a trillion dollars a year on diabetes and other…”

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

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10% of that is going to buy sugar drinks, another 3 to 8% sweets and candies. So we're giving the poorest members of our society diabetes when they're young. And then we're paying it forward through Medicaid later. We spend now a trillion dollars a year on diabetes and other mitochondrial disorders. And it's bankrupting our country. And 88 out of 10American kids cannot qualify for military services. Oh, it is hurting us, our national security. It's destroying our economy. (16:21–16:29)

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