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that's what our book is about. we've been out on the podcast circuit come met bobby kennedy, and student community. and president trump was shot in butler i had the privilege of ivan worked with democrats and the trump campaign, bobby kennedy, there'sre a bipartisan awakening on this issue of chronic disease. called bobby and suggested he talked to trump t that night. was able to facilitate that conversation but i've been small part. i had the privilege of viewing this bond developed between the two men and it was a bond over not a partisan issue but true legacy item of reversing the chronic disease crisis among the children we've got 38% of our teams prediabetic and this is a national scandal. bobby and president trump captured the conscious americans

with this issue brought a lot of new voters into the fold. turn with where you agree on this issue of chronic condition? >> guest: you sought in the hearing. he is being quiz by senators who were bragging they been working on intricacies of medicare and , medicaid policy for the past couple decades when bobby is not talking about what the reforms need to be to page 300 medicare part d, bobby's premise which i a book ise with what about ilife mission is is that we have a two-part problem where we are incentivizing and subsidizing and recommending ultra-processed food. that 70% of food stamps could alter processes. 18% but less can go to soda. the usda recommends added sugar for children, ultra-processed food to children. through corporate capture crutcher were recommending and subsidizing ultra-processed food for kids. when you get to the healthcare system 90-95% of cost are tied to food related chronic disease.

when you look at diabetes and heart disease come even alzheimer's which is called type three diabetes, chronic disease is most profitable invention because patients gets sick and stay sick. thee problem is we're poisoning our population and then the healthcare system is profiting from some and being sick for a longer b time. we need to both change instances on our food but also collected the medical codes and corruption with the standard of care for high cholesterol come for sad come to-- pushing ozempic on 12-year-olds. the medical codes in our entire medical flossing needs to much more preventative and much more getting to the root cause of this interconnected chronic disease crisis. bobby painted this picture and is going to specific policies to get to more preventative health system. >> host: what do you think you will recommend to do away with food incentives, the processed

food and then at the same time i do this medical codes? how witty push preventative care and what is preventative care? do you think so that we don't have these chronic conditions? >> guest: any american would assume are $4.5 trillion of healthcare and our medical codes which underlie 20% of economy and every medical decision in the country are going would assume those money and that logic is tied to the goal of reversing and preventing disease. it is not. 95% is spent on management of disease. so start up the valueue chain at the nih. right now 85% of spending at the nih is pharmaceutical r&d. that means accepting the fact rican sector and sicker and sicker and sicker and nih itself is studying band-aids to profit chronic disease to the pharmaceutical industry. that's why they lobby soca much forr