People are fat and diabetic at rates that are criminal.

38% of preteens ages 12 to 18 now being pre-diabetic when it used to be zero.

38%.

38%.

I don't think I ever recovered from reading about the fact that marketing people built the food pyramid, right?

Not scientists. How the hell did we get there?

There's this revolving door of people who are working for chemical and food corporations

and then going to serve in government to kind of uphold their interests.

Tell me what you know about the tobacco company's purchase of the food industry.

Music So I've been dragged kicking and screaming into the issue of nutrition, I would say.

And some of that's for personal reasons, and some of it is for intellectual reasons, let's say.

I had reason in my own family to look at nutrition very carefully because it turned out that my daughter,

who had a very serious illness, Michaela, was reactive to a very large

range of foods. And that was rather a shock to discover, you might say. And I've been experimenting

with diet for quite a long time in a radical way, far more radically than I like. That's the first thing,

and that I would have ever expected to do. And that's had some pretty positive consequences.

And I've heard from many thousands of people positive tales about the consequence of their shift in diet. And I've interviewed people like Chris Palmer,

who's a psychiatrist at Harvard, who's been using dietary manipulations to treat intractable

psychological disorders. And I know that people are fat and diabetic at rates that are criminal.

And so even though this isn't something I ever hoped I would be interested in,

even that's become necessary.

Now, I went to Washington a while back at the invitation of Ron Johnson

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