Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the old young adult cancers are up 70, 79%. One in four American women is on antidepressant medication. 40% of teens have a mental teens have a mental health diagnosis, and 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall, and half a million children on SSRIs.
So, what’s causing this suffering? I’ll name two culprits first. And the worst is ultra processed food. About 70 percent of American children’s diet is ultra processed. That means industrial manufactured in a factory. And these ingredients didn’t exist a hundred years ago. Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe, but ubiquitous in American processed foods.
The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment. Pesticides, food additives. Pharmaceutical drugs and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies. The assault on our children’s cells and hormones is unrelenting. Our country has the earliest puberty rates of any continent on the earth.
And no, this isn’t because of better nutrition. This is not normal. When my uncle was president, our country has spent Zero dollars on chronic disease. Today, government health care spending is almost all for chronic disease.
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