The Obesity Myth

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Posted on YouTube on September 13, 2024.

Summary:

Enough of blaming and shaming the victims of a corrupt system. Instead, we are going to change the system that keeps so many of us sick. That’s what I  mean by Make America Healthy Again.

Transcript:

"Today I want to talk about the biggest myth of the national obesity epidemic. The biggest myth is that if you're obese or overweight it's your fault.

Today 34% of American adults are obese or overweight including 40% of American teenagers. Back when I was growing up childhood obesity was almost unheard of. You don't need statistics to know that something has changed. Look at the photographs of beaches or state fairs from the 1950s. Something has changed and it isn't human nature. We haven't suddenly become lazy or gluttonous. What has changed is our food system, our diets, and hormone disrupting chemicals in our food and our water and our soil.

We are being mass poisoned.

Today they tell you that you have obesity like it was some kind of contagious disease. They treat it as if your body malfunctioned and they give you a shot to control it or they make it about your lack of self-control.

Well that's an insult to anyone who has tried and struggled to lose weight. So what are they ignoring when they make it all about you and your body and your willpower and your character and the solution is always a shot or a pill that somebody is going to cash in on?

What they're ignoring is a food supply that's loaded with high fructose corn syrup and seed oils and hundreds of artificial additives and flavors and processed carbohydrates that don't exist in nature and that are banned in other countries. They ignore a skewed system of subsidies and make these unnatural ultra-processed foods cheap. They ignore chemical contamination from pesticides that is wreaking havoc on our body.

Now let me tell you what we're going to do about it.

We're going to change the subsidies so that everyone can afford safe and wholesome food. We're going to get industry money out of government so the consumers and doctors can actually trust our agencies again. We're going to make school lunches nutritious again. We're going to ban harmful chemicals from the food supply.

We're not going to force or coerce or shame anyone. We're going to lower the costs and lower the barriers and get rid of the perverse incentives and clean out the chemicals so that the American people won't be swimming upstream anymore through a soup of toxic substances just to be healthy."