"We've got the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world. When my uncle was president, 3 percent of Americans had chronic disease. Today, it’s 60 percent," said Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in an interview with Jesse Watters on Fox News, this week.
This is a favorite line of Kennedy's — which he repeated while pitching his plan to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation's food supply. In the interview with Watters, he spoke broadly, about all Americans. During his confirmation hearings in January, he used a similar talking point about children: "When my uncle was president, 2 percent of American kids had chronic disease. Today, 66 percent have chronic disease."
He's said it enough that the figures have started to creep into search results of AI models on chronic diseases in the 1960s. Presumably that is because Kennedy is now a Trump cabinet secretary and, apparently, is considered a voice of authority.
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