Assessing the Chronic Diseases That Have Gripped Children

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.5	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at
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0:28.5	I've read this this morning.
0:30.3	I believe I have a moral obligation to read it to you, excerpting, that is, because I've been pointing out these things, which is what do we,
0:44.5	here's the problem, and I'm going to excerpt.
0:49.3	The report's been made assessing chronic diseases that have gripped U.S. children in recent years,
0:59.3	pinning blame for a spike in childhood issues on a host of variable, stretching from
1:04.8	ingesting foods with added chemicals to an increase in prescribing pharmaceuticals to young kids.
1:15.6	Who makes money? I have always said, and in movies, they always tell, in criminal movies,
1:21.6	follow the money. Who's motivated? Pharmaceuticals.
1:30.8	This is going to horrify you as I read on.
1:40.1	The report's findings include teenage depression doubling from 2009 to 2019.
1:50.9	More than one in five children over the age of six line up five kids one of them is obese we're not even talking about chunky we're talking about obese you see that all the time go to malls go
2:00.7	to anywhere go to parks, anywhere.
2:03.5	Fat, not even fat, they're obese.
2:06.2	The other ones are probably somewhat fat.
2:09.1	Why?
2:10.9	So as I went through all of these, I'm 78, but, not but, I'm 78 and thinking back when I was in school.
2:22.1	Truth be told, I don't remember any fat kids.
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