Originally Authored at TheFederalist.com
Environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ripped the American health care system as a sick care system as he ended his own White House campaign Friday and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
Speaking in Phoenix, Ariz., Kennedy explained Americans are getting sick from a food supply saturated with hyper-processed consumables laden with seed oils and environmental toxins.
“We spend more on health care than any country on Earth,” Kennedy said, “and we have the worst health outcomes of any nation… Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have.”
In the 1960s, when Kennedy’s uncle was president and his father the U.S. attorney general, American health spending was just 5 percent of gross domestic product. By 2021, it was more than 18 percent of GDP. Obesity rates have also tripled since the early 1960s ushered in the industrialization of the food supply and the low-fat diet craze.
Kennedy outlined the numbers in his Arizona address wherein “half Americans have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.”
“When I was a boy, juvenile diabetes was practically non-existent,” Kennedy said, explaining the typical pediatrician rarely saw a case of adolescent diabetes. “Today, one out of every three kids who walks through his office door is diabetic or pre-diabetic.”
“There’s been an explosion of neurological illnesses that I never saw as a kid,” he added, while childhood obesity is now jeopardizing military readiness. “There’s nobody else in the world that is experiencing this. This is only happening in America.”
Kennedy blamed a corrupt sick care system catering to a population hooked on biochemically toxic foods engineered to induce maximum addiction for the nation’s incumbent health crises.
“These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils,” Kennedy said, designed by “laboratory scientists” who “worked for the cigarette industry which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and 80s.”
Kennedy referenced nutrition journalist Nina Teicholz’s bestselling 2015 book on dietary fat last week, “Big Fat Surprise,” that exposed the government and food industry of demonizing saturated fats to prioritize cheaper and harmful alternatives in the form seed oils.
“This exhaustively cited book exposes a health scandal that has contributed enormously to this nation’s chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy wrote on X. “Ironically, Nina was a vegetarian for over 20 years prior to writing this book.”
Toxic chemicals contaminating processed food, Kennedy added Friday, “increase estrogen” and interfere with other hormones for optimal metabolism. The excessive surge of childhood estrogen has driven early puberty and certain types of cancer including breast cancer.
“We are mass poisoning all of our children and our adults,” Kennedy said.