Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again report released Thursday is important because it’s “focused on the fact that you have a lot of kids that are coming up, and the disease incidence rates and diabetes and obesity and the level of cancers is so much greater than it was just a very long time ago,” says West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey.
“And you see in different parts of the world, and you compare it to the United States and in some parts of the world, some of the pediatric cancer rates are much lower than when you get to the U.S. And you say, ‘what’s going on here?’ Well, there has to be a number of underlying causes, including the crap that’s in our foods and what folks are exposed to at a young age,” Morrisey told Newsmax’s “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE.”
“So, it’s important to focus on that, to clean that up and ultimately, to make sure we kind of take back our country to get healthier again. So, I’m a big advocate in talking a lot about this but also doing something about it. That’s why we’ve unveiled Pillars of Health in West Virginia, because unfortunately, we’ve been leading the country in a lot of these healthcare statistics that are not good, whether it’s diabetes, obesity, congestive heart failure, and we need to start doing something about it.
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