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Why Are Politicians Avoiding this Topic? #drmarkhyman

1 Feb 2024

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This is a YouTube video titled "Why Are Politicians Avoiding this Topic? #drmarkhyman" containing a conversation recorded in February 2024 between Kelly and Ask AI Mark discussing the rising health issues in the country such as obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease, and the lack of political discourse addressing these problems, especially related to food and corporate influence.

The biggest issue in the country right now is that we're all getting sicker, fatter, more depressed, more infertile. Our eyes can gloss over the stats, but more than 25% of young adults having prediabetes, 20% of teens having fatty liver disease, 50% of teens now being overweight or obese, and then that going to close to 80% now overweight.
Or obese for adults. This is the biggest issue in the country. Yeah, but it's so incredible, Kelly, that it's not part of our political discourse. When you hear debates on the debate stage, when you hear the news reports.
About what's wrong with our country or what's going on, this is absent from the conversation. It's just so striking.
To me.
I don't think it's that complicated that we're getting sicker because of food. And I think the most appalling thing that's happening is not only is the medical system not ringing the alarm bell about food, the dean of Harvard Med School or the head of the NIH not standing before Congress saying, let's not give kids sugar. They're actually in bed with the food companies. The most shocking thing I saw is the Heritage Foundation taking money from Coca-Cola to say it's immoral and against conservative principles to not give poor kids Coke.