As part of the Make America Healthy Again campaign Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks out about the obesity myth.
In this video he talks about the biggest myth of the national obesity epidemic. The biggest myth is that if you are obese or overweight, it’s your fault. Today three quarters of Americans are obese or overweight including 40% of American teenagers.
When Robert was growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s childhood obesity was almost unheard of. You don’t need statistics to know that something has changed. If you look at photos of state fairs and beaches from the 1950’s you can see that something has changed and it isn’t human nature. We haven’t suddenly become gluttonous or lazy.
Change to food system
What has changed is our food system, our diets and the hormone disrupting chemicals in our food, in our water and our soil. We are being mass poisoned. Today they tell you that you ‘have obesity’ like it was some kind of contagious disease. They treat is as if your body malfunctioned and they give you a shot to control it. Or they make it about your lack of self-control.
Well that’s an insult to anyone who has tried and struggled to lose weight.
So what are they ignoring when they make it all about you and your body and your will power and your character? They say all that is needed is a pill or a shot that someone will cash in on.
What is being ignored in this obesity myth as discussed by Robert Kennedy?
What they are ignoring is a food supply that is loaded with high fructose corn syrup and seed oils and hundreds of artificial flavours and additives. Also processed carbohydrates that don’t exist in nature and are banned in other countries.
Subsidies
They ignore a skewed system of subsidies that make these unnatural, ultra processed foods cheap. They ignore chemical contamination from pesticides that is wreaking havoc on our body.
What will Robert Kennedy Jr. do about this obesity myth?
He will change the subsidies so that everyone can afford safe and wholesome food. He is going to get industry money out of government so that consumers and doctors can actually trust the agencies again.
School lunches will become nutritious again. Harmful chemicals will be banned from the food supply.
Robert Kennedy will not force, coerce or shame anyone. He will lower the cost and get rid of the barriers of pervise incentives. He will clean out the chemicals so that the American people won’t be swimming upstream anymore through a soup of toxic substances just to be healthy.