Well, they used to say an apple a day can keep the doctor away. Do you think it could do the same

for the politicians and economists? I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, and this

episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen, I happen to be

listening to an audible book called Whole, and it's mostly about the scientific benefits of a whole food plant-based diet.

But as my mind tends to do, while I'm listening to it and walking around my neighborhood for

exercise, I begin to have other thoughts.

And just this morning, as we record this, it occurred to me that the government suffers from the same malady that many people

and scientists and doctors do when it comes to health. The government has the same problem

with the economy. And Steve Green, this is what I mean. The author of this book said that there has been a lot of focus on trying to find carcinogens and then basically ban the carcinogens in the scientific community.

There's also been a lot of focus on trying to find sort of, for one of a better term, the super vitamin.

And then, you know, if the government could,

I'm sure they would mandate the super vitamin while banning the carcinogens. But what they found

over and over through the years is that the human body and, frankly, most of the foods we eat

are redolent of irreducible complexity.

In other words, when they do a test on an apple, they find that an apple has some positive benefits and antioxidants and stuff like that that are good for the human body.

But by giving one of those ingredients to a human in much higher doses

than you would find with an apple, you don't get nearly the effect that you would get if you

simply ate an apple. Because essentially, the apple is super complex. And the antioxidant

ingredients mixed with other ingredients that are inside that apple,

and they all work together in harmony to help the human body in ways that you can't get

by isolating one of those nutrients and then turning it into a pill. And Steve, it just hit me

like lightning this morning while I was out on my walk, I was like, oh my goodness, that's what

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