Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

So there's huge amounts of costs that are embedded in our food system that are not paid for when you buy your food at the grocery cab.

Hey everybody, it's Dr. Hyman. I'm here at my office at Cleveland Clinic and I'm super excited to talk to you today about my new book.

But it makes how to save our health, our economy, our communities and our planet one by the time.

And the reason I want to share these ideas with you is because this is the most important book I've ever written.

It's about the cause of so many of our global problems.

Chronic disease, climate change, environmental degradation, poverty, social injustice, national security, kids, poor academic performance and I could go on and on.

And you know what?

Fixing the food system can fix all of it.

I just it's such a beautiful thing because at the end of the day, we know today the solution. We can't end war.

We can't live for a thousand years, right?

We can't solve natural disasters at this moment, but this is something we can solve.

And it's going to take a big effort from grassroots people like you who are listening and policy change and I'm working on that.

I want to tell you more about that over time.

But today I want to talk about the true cost of food.

What is the true cost of what we're eating to society, to humans, to our natural resources and our natural capital, to our economies.

It's staggering.

So just to put on perspective, you know, our food system drives the production of processed food that is the biggest killer on the planet, 11 million people die here.

What is the cost of that?

We know in this country, just for obesity and diabetes, just in direct and indirect causes, it's about 3.7 trillion dollars a year.

That's about one and every five dollars for our economy, just for diabetes and obesity.

The government is biggest expenditure is Medicare.

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