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Food Pyramid Scams and America’s Obesity Epidemic | Calley Means

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

CHAPTER

The Lion's Diet Saved Their Lives

The problem with healthcare is that every single institution that impacts American health makes more money when people are sicker for longer periods of time. The thing that is literally bankrupting our country, and I think destroying our competitiveness is the fact that so many young people are sick. We're the only country in the world where our nutrition program for lower income folks goes 75% to ultra processing food. If we're gonna have SNAP, it's not going to cost us trillions of dollars of healthcare costs. And if we just support Coke on food stamps as racist? Why are they paying hundreds of millions of dollars to create nutrition studies for the express purpose of confusing Congress?"

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