RFK Jr.: Chemicals In Food Hijack The Brain And Trick The Body Into Eating More While Getting Less Nutrition
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy talks to NewsNation host Greta van Susteren about the history of food regulation in the United States.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: When FDA first began regulating foods in the 1940s, it exempted food ingredients that had been used for generations, like wheat and eggs and dairy, etc. And it said, we don’t have to test those. We’re only going to test the new stuff. And they applied a label called generally recognized safe to those ancient ingredients. The food industry was able to capture that and apply it to every new chemical that they wanted to add for food. So we have 10,000 ingredients in our food in the United States. In Europe, they only have 400. Because in our country alone, chemicals are never tested, safety tested before they’re added to food. We have all these petroleum-based synthetic food dyes, and we have chemicals that mimic the taste of strawberries and blueberries, but there’s no nutrition in them. And your body, if they trick your body and hijack your brain into eating more and more food and getting less and less nutrition. So we’re now the fourth most obese country in the world. But we also have for the first time in history, this phenomenon where obesity is accompanied very often by malnutrition. The people who are most obese are also malnourished, and that’s never been seen before in human history.
