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why are we using government money why
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are we shuttling 10 billion doar from
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the US Treasury to soda companies we
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have a metabolic disaster happening
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among
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kids my name is Cali means and this is
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my
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story I was born and raised right in
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Washington DC I grew up down the street
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from the White House my dad moved to DC
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in the 70s before I was born to be an
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economic adviser for the Nixon and Ford
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administrations and from as long as I
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can remember I was going to change
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public policy in the United States I was
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going to impact American competitiveness
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that was my obsession growing up you my
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sister went to Stanford Medical School I
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went to Stanford and Harvard Business
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School the plan was always to go back to
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DC after
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college what I quickly learned is that
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on both sides of the aisle when the
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campaigns are over everyone goes and
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works for public affairs lobbying firms
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and inevitably you are sitting across
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from the two largest Spenders in CC
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Pharma and big food and I found myself
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doing that very
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quickly I thought that big food and big
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Pharma were examples of American
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innovation examples of the free market
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and creating these leading Industries
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around the world so I was proud to go
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and and work for pharmaceutical
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companies and and help Advance the
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interest of food companies and people
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really convince themselves they're
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they're doing the right thing obviously
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they're also making a lot of
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money I was employed by a public affairs
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firm on K Street that was the lead
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consultant for the American Beverage
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Association so this is one of the
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interest groups that represents Coke and
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Pepsi and fights for their interests and
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it's very businesslike there was an
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objective on the table and that
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objective was to keep Government funding
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flowing from the food stamp program to
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soda companies so this might surprise
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you but the number one item that that
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those programs dollars are spent on is
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soda uh 10 % of all food stamps funding
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it's $15 billion program goes to sugar
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water to sugary drinks and obviously not
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surprisingly in 2011 some members of
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Congress asked should this be the case
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why are we using government money why
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are we shuttling 10 billion dollar from
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the US Treasury to soda companies and we
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have a metabolic disaster happening
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among kids so the objective from the
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American bever Association to the
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Consultants was very simple how do we
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argue that it is wrong to take away
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Government funding for soda we went to
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the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation to
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of the leading civil rights groups in
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the country who've done great work
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throughout American history these groups
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today are pay-to-play organizations and
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we had a meeting that shocked me it was
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transactional it was that coke uh
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funding is going to be taken away from
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lower income children of color this is
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wrong and you need to say it's racist uh
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to take away soda from from Port po
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children particularly children of color
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and that's exactly what happened and
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there was an allout carpet bombing of
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media both the national level the
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leaders of the NAACP and their local
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chapters uh state by state saying that
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it is an example of racism to take soda
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away from kids this sounds crazy and
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evil talking about it today but nobody
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in that room thought what they were
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doing was evil this is the pull of
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financial incentives I really thought at
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the time that we were protecting
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Coca-Cola from The Nanny State I really
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thought that there was you know bad
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interest trying to restrict
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Choice when it comes to money there's
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Coca-Cola Executives very chummy with
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left-wing groups it's very transactional
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very Clubby between K Street and the
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NAACP the NAACP took millions of dollars
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from Coke then they're taking millions
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of dollars from the maker of OIC the uh
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weight loss drug now that everyone is
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obese they're taking money from them
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today they're taking money from
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Pharma some of the largest funders in
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the country the number one is Healthcare
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and the top one is food and that's led
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to a situation where groups on the left
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are saying we shouldn't stigmatize any
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type of food and for some reason it's
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become a political virtue on the left to
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blindly trust pharmaceutical companies
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as everyone's getting sick and not dive
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into the causes of why we're getting
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sick my my mom was the classic American
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story she was one of the 50% of
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Americans who had pre-diabetes or
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diabetes um she struggled with blood
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sugar her most of her adult life and she
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throughout her life was told this was
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normal oh high blood sugar take
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Metformin later high cholesterol Statin
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high blood pressure take a take a
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medication so she had all these Silo
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conditions and it was normal but none of
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those things were seen as potential
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warning signs and for my mom at 72 she
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was taking a hike with my dad perfectly
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healthy felt the pain in her stomach
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went in got a scan and uh it was stage
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four pancreatic
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cancer we rushed to her
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side had the most profound 12 days of my
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life but but she was dead 12 days after
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the diagnosis and as she was dying uh
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the doctors at Stanford Hospital said
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this was bad luck the pancreatic cancer
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it wasn't bad luck pancreatic cancer
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many forms of cancer are highly tied to
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pre-diabetes and metabolic dysfunction
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and we are being lied to that cancer is
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random that dementia is random that
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kidney disease is random that all these
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issues that are killing us are random
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they're not they're all exploding and
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they're all tied essentially to
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food so this idea that my mom was let
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down like so many of us instead of
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saying these are normal things take a
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pill you're fine I would have loved for
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them to have curiosity about why her
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body was giving warnings signs that it
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wasn't processing energy correctly
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literally all of those biomarkers are
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signs that literally your cells are
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dysfunctional it's not normal so my
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sister and I after my mom died literally
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in the days following her death you know
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really solidified that we're going to
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devote Our Lives to to trying to change
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this food is systematically making
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people
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sicker 50% of americ and adults having
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pre-diabetes or diabetes cancer heart
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disease autoimmune conditions allergies
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any condition you could possibly think
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of is all going up as we're spending
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more money to treat it Healthcare is the
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largest and the fastest growing industry
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in the United States largest and fastest
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growing you can't even wrap your head
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around that in healthcare the more money
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we spend the sicker fatter more
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depressed and more infertile we are
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getting you would expect the
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institutions of trust in the United
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States on Healthcare to be ringing the
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alarm about our metabolic Health crisis
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tied to food but they're
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[Music]
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not the Brilliance of the systemic
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design of this Devil's bargain where
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food companies are making cheap
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addictive food that's making us sick
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which is in their interest and
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healthcare industry is profiting from
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the fact that people are sick without
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asking why people are getting sick is
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that there's plot posible deniability
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for every person in every institution uh
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from asking why the Pharma company who
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makes the St the doctor who helps the
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person who is already morbidly obese the
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medical school who's training doctors
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they can all feel good in the moment
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right they all feel like they're doing
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something in that specific moment
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they're not responsible for asking you
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know why there's a large cardiovascular
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Children's Center in every city now
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they're curing that child on a micro
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level who has a heart issue but there
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nobody not one person is responsible for
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asking why so many children are having
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cardiovascular
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issues I do think there has to be
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systemic change because I think
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Americans want to be healthy and I think
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they are in trouble if the largest
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Industries in the country are
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incentivized for them to be
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sick when we talk about how to fix this
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what's so frustrating where the lack of
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leadership really comes in is that the
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solutions here are simple we literally
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need to stop subsidizing poisonous food
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and we need medical leaders to Simply
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say clearly to not eat toxic
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food I can tell you from being in the
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rooms with the food companies and with
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the healthcare leaders these are not
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evil people but they are incentivized
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for their industry to grow We As
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Americans very understandably listen to
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Medical experts and feel like we should
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defer to them we we need to do our own
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research we need to break free from the
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incentives of a medical and food system
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that is highly incentivized for us to be
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addicted to cheap and dangerous food and
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sicker for longer periods of time we
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need to listen to ourselves do our own
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research and not listen to The Experts
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and until we change the trillions of
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dollars of incentives that are slammed
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against the American people we're not
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going to fully get out of this
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