Here’s My 2 Cents: "Making America Healthy Again"

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

RFK has the following goals for healthcare reform in America:

1. Clean up the corruption

2. Get back to science-based evidence

3. End chronic disease

He will be actively working against big food companies, big chemical companies, and big pharma, so naturally, he’s getting a lot of pushback. The U. S. spends over 4.1 trillion dollars each year on healthcare, yet we’re at the bottom as far as health. Why?

Here's what I think can improve America’s health!

1. Change the institutional foods

Prepackaged foods are given to people in nursing homes, prisons, schools, hospitals, and other public institutions. These institutional foods are very low-quality, highly processed foods. The health of the people in these institutions would quickly improve by simply removing the refined sugars, starches, and oils from their diets.

2. Address the subsidized foods

Subsidized foods are paid for by taxpayers. Corn, soy, wheat, sugar, and rice are the most highly subsidized foods. Changing the types of foods that are subsidized and investing in small farmers can significantly improve this problem.

3. Changing GRAS

“Generally recognized as safe” is a term used by the FDA for products that have been safety tested by their own manufacturers. To avoid conflict of interest, these tests should be conducted by third-party independent companies.

4. Change food fortification

Synthetic folic acid and iron fortification of food can cause serious problems for many people.

5. Disallow tax dollars from being used for drugs

Every year, 40 billion dollars of taxpayer money is used to pay for medical research to develop new drugs.

6. The rounding rule

If a product contains less than .5 grams of an ingredient, it can be rounded down to 0. This is misleading and should be eliminated. People need to be more aware of what's really in their food. Companies also need to be forced to raise the quality of the ingredients in their products.

7. End sun phobia

Sun phobia paired with low RDAs for vitamin D is contributing to massive vitamin D deficiency in the population, putting people at risk for disease.

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0:00.0	I want to give you my two cents on RFK Jr's new potential role in being the HHS secretary.
0:06.6	The target is to clean up the corruption.
0:08.3	Number two, get back to science-based evidence.
0:12.1	And number three, and chronic disease, which is a pretty big goal.
0:16.2	And I'm sure you're seeing this, all of the news, all of the pushback that he's getting.
0:20.0	You have the big food companies, big chemical companies, big pharma. They really don't like him very much. And I just want to
0:25.7	make a comment on this one little thing that is quite interesting. It was said as a counter argument.
0:30.5	There is no clear evidence yet that disease is caused by processed food. Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This, this. It's not linked to
0:40.6	chronic disease. What does cause disease? And their response is we don't know. We need to do more
0:46.3	research as big food, big pharma, big chemicals get super wealthy, right? What is the product of
0:52.5	health care? It's a healthy body. If we take the
0:55.0	U.S. population and compare it to the world, we're at the very bottom when it comes to health,
0:59.7	yet we spend the most for health care. Over $4.1 trillion every single year. You can say RFK
1:09.1	Jr. is a quack, anti-vaxxer. He's going to take science into the
1:13.5	dark ages. You can pretty much just ignore that. There is many things that need to be changed.
1:18.1	I want to give my two cents on what I think would make a huge difference. All right, number one,
1:22.9	institutional foods. And what they do is they make pre-packaged food that is given to patients in nursing homes, prisons, the school systems, hospitals.
1:34.1	This is the absolute lowest quality food on the planet. And even going into the hospital, I had two surgeries and I had to be in the hospital for a couple of days.
1:42.3	I mean, I just told them I wanted some protein and they're like, yeah, we don't have much protein. It's like, well, I can give you
1:46.8	a protein bar. I interviewed a gentleman. He actually owns and runs several very unique
1:53.0	assisted living homes. You would want to send your parents or your grandparents there if they
1:56.7	needed that type of service because they do things completely different. And I asked them,
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