Bobby Jindal, a former principal adviser to the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services and governor of Louisiana, said Sunday on Newsmax that he agrees with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the growth of chronic disease in the United States can be linked with the extreme consumption of ultraprocessed foods.
“Let’s look at the rise of chronic diseases in America,” Jindal said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “We have an epidemic. You see the rise in autism, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. It is 90% of our healthcare spending. It is eight of the 10 leading causes of death. Two million lives in America are lost every year due to these chronic diseases.”
The left, meanwhile, “overreacted” to COVID, but are “underreacting to the epidemic of chronic disease,” said Jindal.
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