Gary Brecka argues healthy eating isn't inherently expensive, but rural food deserts force people toward processed foods. He connects chronic disease rates in Appalachia to poor soil health and low nutrient density in the food supply.
Just more expensive to eat healthier. And what can you do about that? Well, I think there's two things. Number one, it's not more expensive to eat healthier, but very often it's the only thing that people have access to. This is where this term food deserts comes from. This is what JD Vance was referring to when he talks about Appalachia and the higher rates of cancer, morbid obesity, type 2 diabetes, multiple chronic disease, actually lower life expectancies. This is because these areas of America that are rural are only served by the highly processed food industry. You know, one of the things that Bobby is doing at HHS is trying to get all the way back to the soil. We know that the health of America begins in the soil. We're not what we eat, we're what we eat eats. And so if we have animals that are eating non nutritious plants from that soil, we have, we have our vegetables growing in soil that had its nutrients depleted, that eventually makes its way to the table.
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