Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Here’s My 2 Cents: "Making America Healthy Again"

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Nov 23, 2024

The discussion dives into ambitious goals for healthcare reform in America, emphasizing the need to reduce corruption and lean on science-based evidence. The hosts highlight the poor quality of institutional foods and the potential health benefits of removing processed ingredients. They also point out the impact of subsidized foods on public health, calling for a shift towards supporting small farmers. Additionally, there's a call for independent testing of food safety and a reevaluation of synthetic food fortification, aiming for a healthier future.

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ADVICE

Improve Institutional Food

Change institutional food served in nursing homes, prisons, schools, and hospitals.
Remove refined sugars, starches, and oils to improve the health of those in these institutions.

ADVICE

Change Food Subsidies

Change subsidized foods by investing in small farmers growing healthier options.
This shifts from subsidizing junk food ingredients to supporting better quality produce.

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Reform GRAS

Change the "Generally Recognized As Safe" (GRAS) designation process.
Use third-party independent studies, rather than manufacturers self-certifying their products.

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RFK has the following goals for healthcare reform in America:

1. Clean up the corruption

2. Get back to science-based evidence

3. End chronic disease

He will be actively working against big food companies, big chemical companies, and big pharma, so naturally, he’s getting a lot of pushback. The U. S. spends over 4.1 trillion dollars each year on healthcare, yet we’re at the bottom as far as health. Why?

Here's what I think can improve America’s health!

1. Change the institutional foods

Prepackaged foods are given to people in nursing homes, prisons, schools, hospitals, and other public institutions. These institutional foods are very low-quality, highly processed foods. The health of the people in these institutions would quickly improve by simply removing the refined sugars, starches, and oils from their diets.

2. Address the subsidized foods

Subsidized foods are paid for by taxpayers. Corn, soy, wheat, sugar, and rice are the most highly subsidized foods. Changing the types of foods that are subsidized and investing in small farmers can significantly improve this problem.

3. Changing GRAS

“Generally recognized as safe” is a term used by the FDA for products that have been safety tested by their own manufacturers. To avoid conflict of interest, these tests should be conducted by third-party independent companies.

4. Change food fortification

Synthetic folic acid and iron fortification of food can cause serious problems for many people.

5. Disallow tax dollars from being used for drugs

Every year, 40 billion dollars of taxpayer money is used to pay for medical research to develop new drugs.

6. The rounding rule

If a product contains less than .5 grams of an ingredient, it can be rounded down to 0. This is misleading and should be eliminated. People need to be more aware of what's really in their food. Companies also need to be forced to raise the quality of the ingredients in their products.

7. End sun phobia

Sun phobia paired with low RDAs for vitamin D is contributing to massive vitamin D deficiency in the population, putting people at risk for disease.

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