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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We've gone to eating pounds of sugar, you know, 10, 20, 30…”

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

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RFK Jr. on Dietary Guidelines, Vaccines & Trump | KMP Ep.22

Published | Video Starts at 20:45

And you know, people will comply as best they can. You know, sugar was not available prior to the industrial age. And you know, now it's all around us and you know, We've gone to eating pounds of sugar, you know, 10, 20, 30 pounds of sugar each American a year. And that's not healthy. In historical times you would get sugar intermittently. A fruit tree would, would blossom and you, you know, you take it, you'd find a, a bees … (20:45–20:52)

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