Why We Need a President Who Cares About Food with Rep. Tim Ryan

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Our food system is completely broken. The foods that nourish us, elevate our health, and prevent chronic illness are more expensive for farmers to produce and for consumers to buy than those that have been proven to create disease. They’re also destroying our environment and causing climate change at the same time. Children are being fed nutrient-poor sugary, starchy foods at school and we wonder why so many of them can’t focus and why they’re always sick. They are being led on a difficult, lifelong path right from the start. And then there’s the national economic burden of disease, which is only increasing as rates of type 2 diabetes and obesity do the same. In fact, one in three Medicare dollars is spent on diabetes, and poor food choices kill 11 million people every year. Over the next 35 years, it's going to cost the US a whopping 95 trillion dollars to deal with diseases that can be prevented by lifestyle and dietary choices. These are grim statistics, but the truth is that we CAN do something to elicit change. We can ban together to change the food system and promote better health for our global community. My guest on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, joins me to talk about how we can change our food system, educational system, economy, environment, and public health with community-based solutions.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, this is Dr. Mark Heimann and welcome to a very special episode of the Doctors'
0:04.2	Pharmacy.
0:05.2	Now, many of you know I'm pretty passionate about food and the food system.
0:08.4	In fact, I'm writing a new book called Food Fix.
0:11.5	How to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our environment one bite at a time.
0:16.5	Now, many of you know about all these issues, right?
0:19.6	Chronic disease affects one into Americans.
0:21.8	Our economic stress from chronic disease is an extraordinary amount of money.
0:27.0	In fact, over the next 35 years, it's going to cost 95 trillion dollars to take care of
0:32.9	people with chronic disease and to account for their lost productivity and quality of life.
0:38.0	Food also affects our climate.
0:39.0	Food is the number one in our food system is the number one cause of climate change and
0:43.8	also the number one solution.
0:45.6	The way we farm, destroy soils, we're going to run out of soil in 60 years.
0:49.3	We're polluting our waterways or lakes and rivers and oceans.
0:53.0	In fact, the fertilizers that we dump into them go to the Gulf of Mexico and create
0:58.3	dead zones, a size new jersey and we kill 212,000 tons, metric tons of fish every year from
1:07.7	the way we grow food.
1:09.2	This is a big problem and of course there's all the social justice issues where we see
1:13.5	an immense amount of poverty and disease and the poor minorities that are really targeted
1:19.4	by the food companies.
1:20.4	We need to address this as a country.
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