Dr. Ana-Maria Temple argues the FDA's GRAS classification lets food ingredients skip rigorous testing while children's chronic disease rates have exploded from 1 in 20 fourteen years ago to 1 in 2 today. She calls for immediate research and stricter scrutiny of food additives.
One of my favorite things is like, well, we need more studies and we need more data. And I'm like, how many more children have to suffer before we acknowledge that these ingredients that have been allowed by the FDA, by the GRAS, which is generally regarded as safe. So some dude or lady, oh, that ingredient is fine. It got put in the food. No data, no research whatsoever. And now we're looking at our children. And one of the things that I want to let everybody know, our children are sicker than ever been before. Mm-hmm. Ever before. 14 years ago, our children, rates of chronic disease were 1 in 20. As of 2024, it's 1 in 2. 50% of our children have a chronic disease. By next year, 100% of our children are predicted to have a chronic disease if we keep on this trajectory, and that's not okay.
